Senior Cloud Engineer
Pacific Life Re22 days ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Lead cloud and platform initiatives from concept through production.
- Operate and evolve multi-region AWS application workloads and participate in out-of-hours on-call rotations.
- Manage application workload maintenance, patching, backups, upgrades, and decommissioning.
- Improve reliability, resilience, performance, efficiency, observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
- Ensure cloud workloads meet security, compliance, governance, architecture, and audit requirements.
- Collaborate with application and engineering teams on cloud architecture and production enablement.
- Improve developer experience through CI/CD pipelines, automation, tooling, templates, and standardized patterns.
- Contribute to cloud design patterns, policies, standards, platform strategy, and governance.
- Potentially provide line or technical leadership as the platform engineering capability matures.
Requirements
- Extensive experience designing, building, and operating distributed AWS environments, including networking, IAM, security, observability, and monitoring.
- Strong hands-on experience with cloud security, compliance, and governance in enterprise or regulated environments.
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tooling.
- Hands-on expertise in SRE and operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, reliability improvement, and incident response.
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives end-to-end while balancing robustness, efficiency, and developer usability.
- Experience operating and supporting Kubernetes-based workloads in AWS.
- Desirable experience supporting data, analytics, or modelling workloads in cloud environments.
- Desirable familiarity with enterprise architecture principles and formal governance frameworks.
- Desirable exposure to financial services, insurance, underwriting, or actuarial technology environments.
- Desirable experience improving developer experience through tooling, templates, and platform capabilities.
- Strong ownership, communication, influence, analytical problem-solving, and production incident-management skills.
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave with the option to buy or sell additional days.
- Adoption and fertility leave and enhanced parental leave.
- Private healthcare for employees and dependents, optical benefits, group life insurance, and group income protection.
- 15% combined employee and employer savings and retirement contributions.
- Subsidized gym membership, an Employee Assistance Program, Cycle to Work, and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme.
- Time off for volunteering and charitable matching of employee donations.
- Team-building days, social activities, wellbeing initiatives, community involvement, and diversity and inclusion support.
- Reasonable recruitment-process adjustments are available for applicants with disabilities.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Pacific Life Re
Pacific Life Re provides life and health reinsurance to insurers, covering protection, critical illness, income protection, longevity risk transfer, and retrocession. It earns through risk premiums and related services such as underwriting support, pricing, and analytics. The company operates globally from a headquarters in Bermuda with offices across Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia, and is backed by parent Pacific Life, a U.S. insurer with a 150-year heritage.