Description
Join our team as a Senior Platform Engineer, where you'll contribute to the design and operation of a scalable, secure enterprise data platform supporting advanced analytics and business intelligence in a healthcare and insurance setting.
You'll work with high autonomy, mentor junior engineers, and drive technical excellence while ensuring compliance and performance. This is a key role in shaping a robust, automated data platform that powers better patient care and smarter insurance services.
How you’ll help us make health happen:
- Contribute to the design and delivery of robust, automated, and scalable Azure and Snowflake data platform components.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, ensuring consistency and reusability across environments.
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions to support rapid, reliable deployments.
- Implement observability practices including logging, metrics, and alerting using observability tools.
- Collaborate with the Lead Engineer and Architects to align implementation with platform standards and patterns.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to mid-level engineers, promoting best practices in automation and monitoring.
Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:
- Extensive experience in platform engineering, with a strong emphasis on Azure-based data solutions.
- Expert-level knowledge of Azure and/or Snowflake services, including Data Factory, Data Lake, Azure ML, and Power BI/Fabric.
- Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and building CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
- Strong grasp of observability practices, including logging, metrics, alerting, and performance optimization.
- Deep understanding of cloud security, with experience applying secure-by-design principles in Azure and/or Snowflake.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
- Collaborative mindset, with a proven track record of working effectively across engineering, data science, and business teams.
- Clear communicator, capable of documenting technical designs, contributing to platform standards, and presenting solutions to stakeholders.
- Leadership experience, including mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
Benefits
- 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
- An enhanced pension plan and life insurance
- Annual performance-based bonus
- Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
- Various other benefits and online discounts