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About the Role

We are seeking a talented Senior Associate Engineer to join our dynamic cross-functional team and help shape the future of digital innovation. This is a blended role where you will spend plenty of your time building product features as well as running them, and you will genuinely enjoy both. If you are passionate about Digital products, technology, and driving meaningful outcomes, this is the role for you!

Responsibilities

Designing, building, deploying, and supporting software across front and backend stacks
Building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines and test automation to facilitate a seamless, repeatable route to production for Azure hosted solutions
Operating and supporting environments up to and including production, instrumenting services with meaningful observability so we can trust our releases and respond quickly when something goes wrong
Design and build product features across the front and back end, engaging fully in the development lifecycle of applications and tools and contributing hands-on to all development tasks, from coding to reviewing and releasing to production.
Collaborate closely with team members, product owners, and stakeholders.
Live the "you build it, you run it" model.
Implement and refine DevOps practices, building and owning CI/CD pipelines, managing infrastructure as code, and instrumenting services with observability (metrics, logs, and traces) so their health is visible.
Take part in operating live services, including release management, alerting, and incident response, while actively reducing toil, technical debt, and manual effort through automation.
Take ownership of personal learning paths, continually acquiring new skills, particularly across operations, SRE, and observability, to enhance team solutions and individual performance.

Requirements

Capable, hands-on software developer who enjoys designing and building product features across the front and back end.
Strong development skills with an additional focus on operations and SRE.
Equally happy shipping product features as improving how we run them.
Developed modern component-oriented front end applications using frameworks and libraries.
Good appreciation of UX (User eXperience).
Solid working knowledge of C# and the .NET stack.
Advocate of key principles such as SOLID and CLEAN code, applying to all areas of development.
Keen to write code that is self-explanatory and easy to maintain.
Sound grasp of modern engineering principles and prefer working in small iterations that optimise feedback.
Like to validate hypotheses via experiments.
Genuine interest in operations and Site Reliability Engineering, and care about how services actually behave in production, not just whether they pass their tests.
Experience (or a strong desire to grow) building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automating the path to production.
Understanding of the principles behind CI/CD is more important than the specific tooling.
Worked in an environment that deploys regularly to production.
Appreciation of observability, using metrics, logs, and traces to understand system health.
Interest in SLIs/SLOs and alerting.
Comfort with, or enthusiasm to learn, Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage environments in a repeatable, reviewable way.
Willingness to take part in operational duties such as releases, incident response, and keeping live services healthy and reliable.
Awareness of security principles and best practices to ensure secure software delivery.
Committed to continuous learning, staying abreast of evolving industry technologies and trends.
Keen to share and contribute to our community.
Experience working within an agile environment; waterfall projects are a red flag.
Own change all the way to production.
Enjoy working with others and contributing to technical excellence as part of an active community.
Experience with Okta (or a comparable identity and access management platform, such as Microsoft Entra ID) for authentication and authorisation (Nice to have).
Hands-on experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (Nice to have).

Skills

Software Development
Full Stack Development
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Observability
Delivery Pipelines
CI/CD
Test Automation
Azure
Product Mindset
Customer Outcomes
Data-Informed Decisions
DevOps
Infrastructure as Code
Metrics
Logs
Traces
Release Management
Alerting
Incident Response
Automation
Continuous Learning
Agile Methodologies
Component-Oriented Front End Development
UX Appreciation
C#
.NET Stack
SOLID Principles
Clean Code
Modern Engineering Principles
Experimentation
GitHub Actions
Octopus Deploy
Azure Monitor
Application Insights
Datadog
Grafana/Prometheus
OpenTelemetry
SLIs/SLOs
Security Principles
Okta
Microsoft Entra ID
Terraform

Location

United Kingdom

Work Type

Full-time
Flexible working

Experience Level

Senior Associate

Benefits

Competitive salary
Generous pension
Bonus scheme
Income protection
Private medical insurance
Life assurance
Training
Flexible working
Opportunities to grow and develop

About the Company

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.
CLUK have ambitious plans to modernise their IT (Information Technology) estate, looking to leverage the cloud and automation at every opportunity and change how we fundamentally deliver solutions, transitioning from a Project to Product approach.

Equal Opportunity

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.