Job Description

Job Title: Engineering Lead
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Park or Edinburgh
Working Style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing Date: 21st October 2025
Overview:
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Platform Engineering Lead to join our Group Technology and Operations Team at Royal London. The purpose of this role is to lead a team of DevOps Engineers to setup, manage Azure cloud infrastructure for the delivery teams. Ensuring best practices are adhere to; use techniques such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), unit testing, CI/CD and code reviews. Provide training and support to teams who have less Azure cloud experience. Help troubleshoot complex issues around networking, databases, storage, serverless components and cloud VMs.
About the role:

• Creating reusable, scalable, and robust Terraform modules.

• Running unit tests against newly created Infrastructure.
• Produce consistent and reliable infrastructure for all environments.
• Accurate and efficient tracking of changes through environments.
• Work closely with DevOps Engineering, Development and App Support teams.
• Work closely with Group team including Cloud Ops and networking.
• Working flexibly and effectively across teams ensuring that team and business objectives are met.
• Contributing to team meetings and participating in decision making
• Identifies risks and issues; champions effective and timely resolution with thorough Root Cause Analysis performed and impacts fully understood.
• Manage technical / process improvements.
• Help drive the evolving improvement of software quality and software resiliency by automating steps in the value-chain.
• Integrate platforms with operational and configuration automation tooling, pipelines, and playbooks to continuously improve service reliability, security, and management.
• Help drive the continuous improvement in change and service reliability through continuous measurement, monitoring, and operational automation improvements.

About you:

• Terraform: Good experience in Terraform; able to create reusable modules, that is scalable and easily maintainable for multiple development teams and multiple environments. Ensuring best practice is considered and implemented.
• Azure Cloud: Experience in Azure cloud, good understanding of virtual networks, subnets, NSGs, firewalls, and Azure policy. Good understanding of Azure cloud resources such as Data factory, Azure Function Apps, Web Apps, Azure SQL, API Management, Event Grid and Virtual Machines. Experience of creating cloud images using Packer or similar tools. Good understanding of infrastructure redundancy, scalability, and cost optimization.
• Azure DevOps: Experience of using Git source control, CI/CD processes, YAML builds, Azure cloud scale set build servers.
• Unit Testing: Experience in Pester or similar infrastructure cloud unit testing.
• Monitoring: Experience of infrastructure monitoring and alert management.
• Visionary: Able to see strategic long-term Platform build out and how we can manage to propel RLG modernization initiatives.
• Training: Able to provide training to other DevOps engineers, development teams and production support teams. Provide knowledge and experience on best ways to approach complex implementations.
• Mentoring: Able to mentor junior developers on best software engineering practices.
• Trouble shooting: Strong trouble shooting skills around Azure networking, storage, databases, security, and cloud resources.
• Agile/Scrum: Experience working in a Scrum methodology delivering work in regular Sprints.

Desirable Experience:

• Bicep or Terraform
• Data Factory / Function Apps
• Azure SQL server experience
• Microsoft .NET technologies - ETL, SSIS, SQL Server, C#, API, Microservice, Java
• Python or other scripting language such as Powershell

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Docker * Pester experience

• Linux skills

If you think you would be a great fit for our team at Royal London but don't meet all the requirements of the role, please get in touch as your application will still be considered.
About Royal London
We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here -
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We're an employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.

Skills Required