Platform Engineer

The role of Platform Engineer is wide ranging, including infrastructure centric aspects of Cloud Architecture and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) through to optimising the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) using techniques such as Lean and BDD.

Key to driving our technology strategy forwards you will implement practises and approaches that drive throughput and enable the business to test new products, pricing & capabilities rapidly out in the marketplace. 
Department
DevOps & Infrastructure
Employment Type
Permanent - Full Time
Location
London
Workplace type
Hybrid
Reporting To
Keith Bartlett

About the role

As a member of the Platform Development team, build the tools that evolve our Azure cloud infrastructure in a safe, reliable, automated and cost-effective manner enabling our proprietary technology development teams to have the best possible development experience@
  • Provide expertise and input in to the design and implementation of LAC automation to serve the needs of our application hosting, with particular focus on consistency, security and developer enablement
  • Participate in planning efforts with stakeholders and IT department, working as part of a small team and successfully manage your own tasks according to the larger needs of the business;
  •  Help define and enforce security guidelines for engineering work
  • On failure events, work on fixing the issues and communicating with senior members of the team 

About you

The ideal candidate for this role will :
  • Have enterprise experience of Azure and excellent understanding of SDLC best practices, infrastructure as Code/Desired  State Configuration – Terraform, Ansible, etc
  • An advanced level of experience using command line/scriptin tools such as Azure CLI, Bash and Powershell
  • An understanding of DevOps centric concepts and Azure Platform Engineering particularly in relation to automation and YAML pipelines. 

Core Values

Love what you do:
We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.

Challenge everything:
We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.

Have fun, be good:
Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.

About CFC

CFC is a specialist insurance provider, pioneering emerging risk and market leader in cyber. Our global insurance platform uses cutting-edge technology and data science to deliver smarter, faster underwriting and protect customers from today's most critical business risk.

Headquartered in London with offices in New York, Austin, Brussels and Brisbane, CFC has over 950 staff and is trusted by more than 100,000 businesses across 90 countries.

At CFC, insurance isn't just about underwriting. From data science to software development, and digital marketing design, we've got something for everyone. We're passionate about pushing boundaries, thinking differently and building the insurance company of the future.

CFC is committed to the principles of equal opportunities and creating an environment in which all individuals are always treated with dignity and respect. We encourage a diverse corporate culture of openness and appreciation to create an environment in which your talent can be developed in the best possible way. Should you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process please let us know.

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Department
DevOps & Infrastructure
Employment Type
Permanent - Full Time
Location
London
Workplace type
Hybrid
Reporting To
Keith Bartlett
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