Job Type:
Permanent
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Role Overview
The Platform Engineer is a hands-on technical role, supporting the reliability, security, and automation of our software delivery pipelines and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
This role combines the disciplines of DevOps (Automation & CI/CD) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Working closely with tech squad members (i.e. software and data engineers, and SDETs), you will help ensure our applications are secure by design, available, performant, and deployed through automated pipelines, using infrastructure-as-code principles across Azure and GCP environments and, where appropriate, on-premises too.
You will support other engineers to self-serve where possible by contributing to reusable templates, designs and components, and by sharing knowledge that helps improve platform engineering practices across the squad.
About Hiscox Re
Hiscox Re is located in Bermuda and London and underwrites reinsurance risks from around the world on behalf of our own and other people’s capital. The team of over 100 smart, enthusiastic individuals are committed to providing top quality service to brokers and clients across a broad range of reinsurance products. Our approach is simple; match the best underwriting risk against globally diversified capital. Our proactive, product-led underwriting approach is complemented by a commitment to world class service and purpose-built analytics and systems. We know our people are our biggest asset so finding and retaining the best talent is critical to achieving our vision.
If you are a technology-focused engineer looking to build your platform engineering skills and contribute to reliable, automated software delivery, we invite you to apply for the position of Platform Engineer at Hiscox Re. Join our team and help us continue improving DevOps maturity in a dynamic, forward-thinking organization.
Candidate Profile
The successful candidate will be a motivated, practical, and curious engineer with a strong interest in automation and operational excellence. You should have a good grounding in platform engineering concepts and be keen to develop your skills across infrastructure automation, CI/CD, cloud services, monitoring, and secure delivery practices. You will be comfortable working as part of a cross-functional team, learning from others, and contributing to continuous improvement within the squad.
Main experience required is:
- Platform Knowledge: Good awareness of cloud-native services and containerized systems, with some practical exposure.
- Data services: An understanding of data platforms, orchestration, warehouses, data lakes and lakehouses.
- CI/CD Tooling: Practical experience working with Azure DevOps pipelines or similar tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Puppet), with support from more experienced engineers where needed.
- DevOps/SRE Experience: Some experience involving DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, or operational support responsibilities.
- IaC Experience: Working knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates, Bicep or YAML, with an understanding of version control and state management concepts.
- Cloud Exposure: Hands-on experience of working with Azure, GCP or hybrid cloud environments.
- Security Mindset: Awareness of secure engineering practices, risk concepts, and application security testing approaches such as SAST and DAST.
- Monitoring Tools: Experience using monitoring and logging tools such as New Relic, ELK or similar, with an understanding of how alerts, dashboards, and cloud cost visibility help improve reliability and efficiency.
- Future Looking: You are interested, curious and aware of new techniques and tools that can improve the delivery of quality solutions, and are willing to learn, experiment and adopt these where appropriate.
Key Responsibilities
1. Automation, CI/CD, and DevOps Maturity
- Pipeline Support: Help to create, maintain, and secure CI/CD pipelines for publishing code to cloud environments (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), supporting fast, frequent, automated, and reliable deployments.
- Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Contribute to the automation of cloud and on-premise infrastructure setup and maintenance within your value stream, using tools like Terraform and Ansible to help keep environments consistent.
- DevOps Culture: Support the adoption of DevOps principles and culture within squads, contributing ideas and helping improve automation and ways of working.
2. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence
- Reliability & Monitoring: Help build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging at platform, application and data levels, supporting teams to identify issues and understand service availability and performance.
- Incident Management: Participate in Incident Management, Problem Resolution, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) activities, helping investigate issues, document findings, and implement agreed preventative measures.
- Cost & Efficiency: Help identify time-saving and cost-optimizing opportunities, supporting reviews of resource utilization and contributing to changes that improve efficiency.
- Resilience: Support the delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient production and dev/test environments, developing knowledge of containerized, serverless, microservice and data service patterns.
3. DevSecOps & Security Compliance
- Security Automation: Contribute to security automation and security testing by helping embed security checks and gates (SAST/DAST) within CI/CD pipelines.
- Risk Mitigation: Support threat modelling and risk assessment activities, helping implement security controls that keep solutions secure throughout design and build stages.
- Vulnerability Management: Help respond to new and emerging security threats and vulnerabilities, supporting application security processes and maintaining compliance across environments.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with the Head of Platform Engineering, Head of Governance & Architecture, Group InfoSec and development squads to apply security, compliance, tagging and naming standards consistently.
Organisational Structure
- Reporting: Reports to the Head of Platform Engineering.
- Direct Reports: None (hands-on technical role).
- Key Partners: Head of Platform Engineering, Head of Engineering, Product Owners and Development Squads (Software/Data Engineers/SDETs).
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