# Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

**Company**: Bupa
**Location**: Staines
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £74,400 per annum (DOE and location) plus 10% bonus
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer at Bupa, you'll play a key role in shaping the platforms that support digital services.

You'll help build secure, reliable, and scalable cloud solutions that enable teams to deliver high-quality care and support to customers.

This is a leadership role where you'll guide technical direction, support colleagues, and influence how we develop and operate cloud platforms.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead the design, build, and evolution of cloud-based platforms and infrastructure

- Set technical direction and support best practices for platform engineering

- Ensure systems are secure, reliable, and scalable

- Drive automation and continuous improvement of platform services

- Collaborate with engineering, security, and operations teams

- Support the delivery of applications by providing robust platform capabilities

- Monitor performance and respond to incidents to maintain service quality

- Coach and support other engineers, sharing knowledge and guidance

- Ensure solutions align with internal standards and regulatory requirements

**Key Skills/Qualifications needed for this role**

- Strong experience working with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, or GCP)

- Demonstrated expertise in platform engineering, infrastructure, and automation

- Experience leading or mentoring engineers

- Confidence working with deployment, monitoring, and configuration tools

- Knowledge of scripting or programming languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, or similar)

- Understanding of security, reliability, and performance in cloud environments

- Clear communication and ability to work with a range of stakeholders

- Proactive, solution-focused approach

**Benefits**

- 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

- Enhanced pension plan and life insurance

- Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

- Various other benefits and online discounts

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## Skills

### Required
- cloud platforms
- platform engineering
- infrastructure
- automation
- scripting
- programming languages
- security
- reliability
- performance

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