Lead Platform Engineer

AXA is embarking on its most radical and ambitious change programme in the history of its Healthcare business. Driven by a changing UK health landscape the growth in the (preventative) Wellbeing sector and the need for radical simplification we are uniting several businesses internally to produce a stronger offering than ever before in our mission to empower people to be the best version of themselves.

As a Platform Engineer you will take ownership of our mission to evolve and build our new Digital Platform such that is performant at scale secure and compliant with both internal and industry regulations and meets availability requirements. In addition youll be working on how change is managed through our technology systems to ensure we have optimal release frequency lead time for change change failure rates and mean time to resolve.

At AXA we work smart empowering our people to balance their time between home and the office in a way that works best for them their team and our customers. Youll work at least 40 of your week away from home moving to the majority of your working week from September 2025. Away from home means either attendance at one of our office locations visiting clients or attending industry events. Were also happy to consider flexible working arrangements which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition.

What youll be doing:

• Documenting existing processes and automating those using software you write yourself and/or using third party software tools
• Building operating maintaining and working with Engineering and Architecture optimizing all of our Cloud Infrastructure including our PaaS infrastructure in Azure and our SaaS platform components such as Salesforce
• Working with product engineering teams on recommendations to development changes
• Liaising with internal suppliers of our services and product teams to improve speed and reliability in end to end solutions and associated CICD processes
• Working with our information security teams to ensure security policies are implemented in the most efficient and flexible manner
• Designing building operating monitoring and alerting technology for large complex multisite b2c and b2b applications
• Building comprehensive documentation and software such that all actions are repeatable
• Improving and automating operational processes e.g. deployments upgrades internal workflows
• Tracing issues through multiple systems working with developers where needed to find and diagnose root causes
• Working with internal customers of your SRE products e.g. monitoring alerting software to ensure lifecycle management is in place
• Working within an agile program and teams adhering to Scrum or Kanban principles

Due to the number of applications we expect to receive for this role we reserve the right to close this advert earlier than the listed closing date to ensure were able to effectively manage interest. Therefore if youre interested in joining us at AXA please dont hesitate to apply.

What youll bring:

• Engineering expertise in complicated Salesforce environments experience with Copado for CI/CD is beneficial
• Strong and proven experience with a wellknown cloud PaaS preferably Azure
• Familiarity with Linux and the shell
• Strong programming skills e.g. C# powershell scripting languages JavaScript Python
• Experience with common infrastructure platforms apps and services e.g. Azure Nginx HAProxy Consul/etcd splunk
• Experience with Containerisation systems an advantage e.g. Kubernetes Docker
• Experience with Azure DevOps and multistage pipelines to manage large scale software estates from an operational perspective e.g. build release monitoring rollbacks high availability etc
• Strong networking protocol knowledge e.g. TCP/IP UDP HTTP/3 AMQP streaming protocols etc cloud network design e.g. VPNs subnets regions/zones and integration related technologies e.g. Auth0 APIM etc
• Strong database knowledge and experience; relational graph document various consistency models
• Experience with IaC toolchains e.g. Terraform

As a precondition of employment for this role you must be eligible and authorised to work in the United Kingdom.

What we offer:

At AXA UK were appreciative of the people who work for us and our rewards package is reviewed regularly to reflect that. You can expect to receive:

• Competitive annual salary dependent on experience
• Annual company & performancebased bonus
• Contributory pension scheme (up to 12 employer contributions)
• Life Assurance (up to 10 x annual salary)
• 28 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Opportunity to buy up to 5 extra days leave or sell up to 5 days leave
• AXA employee discounts
• Gym benefits

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Who we are:

At AXA Health we help our members be the best version of themselves by providing access to health and wellbeing support for mind and body. Were transforming our business by developing easy efficient digital experiences for our customers. Were a collective of specialists passionate about helping our members flourish whether thats individuals and families small businesses or huge corporates.