Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

Job Purpose
We’re looking for an Azure Platform Engineer with strong experience in Kubernetes and an interest in platform abstraction and cloud-native infrastructure patterns. You’ll help us design and build shared platform capabilities on Azure that hide complexity from product teams while enforcing security, reliability and governance by default.

This role is ideal for an engineer who:

• Enjoys working with Kubernetes and Azure
• Thinks in terms of platform APIs, abstractions and self-service
• Is curious about emerging control plane and infrastructure abstraction approaches
• Wants to help teams consume infrastructure as a product

How the Team Works
You’ll join a Platform Engineering team focused on building reusable, internal platform services rather than one-off infrastructure.

We work using:

• Kubernetes as a core platform primitive
• GitOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code
• DevSecOps and SRE-inspired practices
• AI-assisted engineering (Copilot, agents, automation)

What You’ll Do

• Build and operate Azure-backed platform services exposed through Kubernetes APIs
• Design abstractions that allow teams to provision infrastructure safely and consistently
• Work with AKS as a core runtime for platform and workload services
• Contribute to platform control plane capabilities (e.g. Kubernetes-based or API-driven approaches)
• Define and manage Azure resources using Terraform, Bicep and declarative approaches
• • Embed security, governance and policy into platform defaults
• Support GitOps-driven workflows and CI/CD pipelines
• Improve observability, reliability and operational readiness

Who You Are
Essential:

• Experience in Azure, cloud engineering, DevOps or platform roles
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes
• Infrastructure-as-Code experience
• Scripting (PowerShell, Bash or Python)
• CI/CD and Git-based workflows

Desirable:

• Experience with platform abstraction or control plane patterns (e.g. Crossplane, Pulumi, or similar approaches)
• Kubernetes extension patterns or operators
• Terraform or Bicep
• Azure networking, identity and governance
• GitOps tooling

Benefits of working at Canada Life

We believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package that’s regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, you’ll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pension and bonus scheme, along with, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance. We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development.

How we work at Canada Life

Our culture is unique and incredibly important to us. We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers and community and helping others to build better futures. Our blueprint behaviours shape and influence how we work, and are central to the relationships we have with others. Every day we are encouraged to be more curious, own the outcome, face into things together and find a way forward.

We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us so we invest in the development of our people, technology and workplaces. That’s why we offer a range of training, flexible working and opportunities to grow and develop.

Diversity and inclusion

Building an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity or any other characteristic is a key commitment for us. We are proud of the progress we’re making in DEI, and we continue for it to be a significant focus.

“At Canada Life we believe in the power of great people from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives coming together to build better futures. Emerging talent is crucial to our growth and creating an environment that continues to inspire us all.” Nick Harding, Chief People Officer, Canada Life UK

We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities. We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.