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About the Role

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for maintaining, optimizing, and evolving PL Re’s cloud-hosted application workloads, primarily on AWS. This role focuses on operational excellence, security, reliability, and lifecycle management of cloud applications, acting at the intersection of cloud architecture, SRE, security, and developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver complex cloud and platform initiatives from concept to production.
• Operate and evolve a global AWS application environment across multiple regions.
• Support the full lifecycle of application workloads, including maintenance, patching, backups, upgrades, and decommissioning.
• Drive improvements in reliability, resilience, performance, and efficiency through SRE practices.
• Own and enhance observability and monitoring, ensuring meaningful alerting and rapid incident diagnosis.
• Raise the bar for operational maturity, including incident management and root-cause analysis.
• Ensure workloads are designed, deployed, and operated in line with cloud security, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Work closely with Information Security and Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with standards.
• Maintain up-to-date technical and architectural documentation.
• Collaborate with application and engineering teams to guide cloud architecture decisions.
• Improve developer experience and tooling, including CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Contribute to the definition of cloud design patterns, policies, and standards.
• Potentially take on line or technical leadership responsibilities 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 in infrastructure-as-code (e.g. 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.
• Experience operating and supporting Kubernetes-based workloads in AWS.
• Experience supporting data, analytics, or modelling workloads in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with enterprise architecture principles and working within formal governance frameworks.
• Exposure to financial services, insurance, underwriting, or actuarial technology environments.
• Experience improving developer experience through tooling, templates, and platform capabilities.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for operational outcomes.
• Clear, pragmatic communicator able to work effectively with engineers, architects, and risk stakeholders.
• Ability to lead through influence, setting practical standards and encouraging good cloud practice.
• Calm, analytical approach to problem-solving in production and incident scenarios.

Skills

• AWS
• SRE
• Security
• Developer Experience
• Platform Engineering
• Cloud Operations
• Observability
• Monitoring
• Incident Management
• Compliance
• Governance
• Infrastructure-as-code
• Terraform
• CI/CD pipelines
• Automation tooling
• Kubernetes

Location

• Global

Work Type

• Full-time
• On-call

Experience Level

• Senior

Benefits

• 25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
• Adoption and fertility leave
• Generous enhanced parental leave
• Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents
• Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary
• Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary
• Optical benefits
• 15% combined employee/employer contributions to savings & retirement
• Subsidized gym membership
• Access to Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Time off for volunteering
• Charitable matching of employee donations

About the Company

• Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step.
• We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too.
• We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.
• Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture.
• We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives.
• We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners and communities. We support all employees to thrive and achieve their fullest potential.
• As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.