Digital Platform Engineer

As a Digital Platforms Engineer in Platform Engineering, you will build, support and improve infrastructure powering Vitality’s digital applications. You’ll operate across cloud, on-premises, and DevOps domains to drive automation, resilience and scalability. You’ll participate in platform upgrades and re-platforming efforts, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable services. This role offers scope to influence cloud strategy and tooling in a well-regarded, purpose-driven business.

• Bonus schemes
• Pension up to 12% (matching up to 6%)
• Vitality health insurance
• Life Assurance (4x salary)

• Design, build and maintain resilient infrastructure and platform services across AWS, GCP and related environments to meet enterprise needs
• Automate provisioning, configuration and management of infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible and IaC practices
• Provide day-to-day engineering support across development, testing and production environments
• Investigate and resolve complex platform and infrastructure issues on Windows and Linux servers, databases and cloud services
• Maintain and enhance the DevOps toolchain, including access management, upgrades, deployment tooling, monitoring and CI/CD services
• Manage platform components such as certificates, API gateways, routing and reverse proxy configurations
• Coordinate server and application patching to keep technologies secure and supported
• Collaborate with development, network and infrastructure teams and third-party providers to implement platform changes
• Identify opportunities to automate manual activities and contribute to platform technology roadmaps

• Proven experience building, supporting and troubleshooting highly available enterprise infrastructure
• Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or other major cloud platforms, plus Windows and Linux environments
• Strong experience with Terraform, Ansible or similar IaC and automation tools
• Understanding of scalable and resilient engineering practices (auto-scaling, automated failover)
• Experience supporting DevOps toolchains and CI/CD, with exposure to containers (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical teams and external providers

• Communication
• Collaboration
• Problem-solving
• AWS and/or GCP platforms
• Windows and Linux server administration
• Terraform