Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Junior Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team!




It's an exciting time to join the team here at AXA, with significant investment planned in all UK&I businesses to transform and deliver new digital services to our customers and streamline and automate our business processes. As a Junior Platform Engineer, you'll deliver cloud platform solutions to enable, support and power our Cloud journey. You'll help implement guardrails and define and support adoption patterns and best practice across our cloud solutions.





If you have any previous experience with Azure, software engineering or even some technical experience supporting applications on Azure, we'd love to hear from you!



At AXA we work smart, empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them, their team and our customers. You'll work at least 40% of your week away from home, moving to the majority of your working week from September 2025. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations, visiting clients or attending industry events. We're also happy to consider flexible working arrangements, which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

What you'll be doing:

Responsibility under supervision for producing quality working code, the right level of documentation, testing changes and correcting errors found Helping develop and support solutions to manage and automate our development, test, and production cloud environments, utilising Azure DevOps Identify opportunities for improving methods, processes, and use of toolsets such as Azure DevOps and Service Now Understanding the need of requirement analysis and design and assisting in problem analysis and investigation Following systems development best practice in the use of standards, methodologies, and techniques Producing documented test plans and results with guidance from the team Managing your own time and tasks, meeting deadlines Keeping up to date with business and IT strategy, as well as general technology trends
Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role, we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure we're able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you're interested in joining us at AXA, please don't hesitate to apply.

What you'll bring:

Some understanding of the Azure platform and an interest in Azure best practice design principles Awareness of current and emerging technologies and trends in the industry Ideally some knowledge of Agile, Scrum or Kanban Most importantly - energy, enthusiasm and a strong desire to learn!
As a precondition of employment for this role, you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer:

At AXA UK, we're appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:



Competitive annual salary of up to 35,000 dependent on experience Annual company & performance-based bonus Contributory pension scheme (up to 12% employer contributions) Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary) Private health cover 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave Wellbeing services & resources AXA employee discounts

To apply, click on the 'apply for this job' button, you'll then need to log in or create a profile to submit your CV. We're proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don't discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long-term condition or disability and require adjustments during the application or interview process, we're proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge. For our support, please send an email to lauren.standen@axa-insurance.co.uk.


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Who we are:

AXA UK Support Functions power AXA's three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure, support and expertise to ensure our customers can always count on us. Whether you've got heaps of experience and qualifications behind you, or you're just starting out, we'll give you the support and opportunities to help you grow and develop with confidence.