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Brit Insurance • London

Senior Platform Engineer

Employment type:  Full time

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top 3 scores:
78%

Autonomy

70%

Hours flexibility

68%

Location flexibility

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Job Description

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer

About Brit

At Brit, we believe that the uncertainty of the future should never stand in the way of progress. That’s why we exist. To help people and businesses face the future and thrive. We are change-makers enabled by a global workforce who collaborate to deliver a risk service. A team empowered to help our customers not only to survive the risks they face, but to stay on the front foot and keep moving forward. We believe the uncertainty of tomorrow isn’t something to fear but to seize; that it’s full of potential. Not only for our customers but our employees too.

We might write the future of risk for our brokers and clients, but we would love to help you write your future at Brit: a future based on not just progressing but on thriving – both professionally and emotionally. If you’re looking for a place to make a real difference read on.


What you’ll be doing

You’ll join our modernised technology team, having migrated to Azure and cloud services, in this critical Senior Platform Engineer role. As a senior member of the team, you’ll be responsible for the continued enhancement, delivery and support of the Azure environment as we continue to move forward with digital transformations.

Your day to day will include designs and documentation for Cloud solutions and services being deployed into Azure, providing guidance and support to others within the Platform team, delivering technical projects and workstreams and making technical decisions.

With the above in mind, we’re hoping you’re someone who is comfortable explaining technical topics and tailoring your style to match the audience. Additionally, you’ll be able to have robust discussions with peers and managers, taking on feedback and challenging others as appropriate.
In terms of technical experience, you’ll be well versed in enterprise architecture, with a focus on scalable infrastructure solutions. We’d love to see knowledge of security first design principals aswell as extensive experience with and detailed knowledge of Terraform & Infrastructure-as-Code principles.
Experience of using CI/CD pipelines for IaC work, ideally with Azure DevOps or GitHub.


We welcome everyone wholeheartedly

We’ve got a truly diverse, genuinely inclusive work environment. We comfortably and confidently bring
are. Our Employee Resource groups are safe spaces for people to share their experiences, aspirations and suggestions about how we do things.

Accessibility

We are located in the Leadenhall Building on Leadenhall Street (EC3V 4AB) and are situated on floors 16 – 18, and 39. All of our floors are accessible by lift, and there are building staff on hand to point you in the right direction.
The closest train / underground / DLR links are: Liverpool Street Station (7 mins), Bank Station (6 mins), Fenchurch Street Station (6 mins), Aldgate Station (7 mins).

The nearest bus stop is St Mary Axe (Stop LR or Z), which is located just outside the building.

If you have any other questions regarding accessibility, please ask.

Company benefits

Shared parental leave
Enhanced paternity leave
Enhanced maternity leave
Adoption leave
Health insurance
Dental coverage
Non-contributory pension
Annual bonus
Share options
Life assurance
Cycle to work scheme
Faith rooms
Pregnancy loss leave
Fertility treatment leave
Carer’s leave
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Gym membership
Compassionate leave
Menstrual leave
Bank holiday swaps
Volunteer days
Employee assistance programme
Salary sacrifice
Charity donation scheme
L&D budget
Enhanced sick pay
Enhanced sick days
Mental health platform access
Travel loan

We asked employees of Brit Insurance what it's like to work there, and this is what they told us.

Location flexibility
68%
Employees are largely happy with their working location freedom
Hours flexibility
70%
Employees are largely happy with the flexibility in the hours they work
Benefits
67%
Employees are largely happy with the benefits their company offers
Work-life balance
65%
Employees feel that they can switch off quite easily from work
Role modelling
67%
Employees feel that most people work flexibly
Autonomy
78%
Employees feel that they can mostly manage how they get their own work done

Working at Brit Insurance

Company employees

Approximately 650

Gender diversity (male:female)

66:34

Currently Hiring Countries

Bermuda

United Kingdom

Office Locations

Awards & Achievements

Finance & Insurance

Finance & Insurance

Industry awards 2023

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