Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Platform Engineer builds and operates platform capabilities for high-performance distributed computing products, ensuring reliable, secure, and efficient operation at scale in a regulated insurance and reinsurance environment. Responsibilities include platform strategy, runtime orchestration, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, performance optimisation, and resilience. The technology environment includes Microsoft HPC on Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and may use Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps, and SolarWinds.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of platform engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering experience supporting distributed high-performance computing systems.
• Experience with Microsoft HPC in a Windows Server environment is ideal.
• Strong experience with hybrid, bare-metal, and virtualized infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of networking, security, and access control, including Microsoft Entra (Active Directory).
• Applied experience with observability practices, including logging, monitoring, and alerting.
• Experience commissioning and maintaining Microsoft SQL Server installations.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration solutions such as Docker and Kubernetes is a plus.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Bicep is a plus.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines, such as with Azure DevOps, is a plus.
• Experience provisioning and managing storage, backup and restore, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the platform engineering strategy and roadmap.
• Design and operate distributed runtime environments, compute orchestration, and workload scheduling.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code and automated environment provisioning.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for distributed systems and shared components.
• Implement logging, metrics, and alerting to improve reliability and debuggability.
• Monitor and optimise performance, throughput, and resource utilisation.
• Maintain platform security, access controls, and compliance with internal standards.
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and support procedures.
• Promote knowledge sharing and cross-training to reduce single points of failure.
• Support shared ownership of critical platform components, releases, and incident response.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and stakeholders to drive adoption of platform capabilities and standards.

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