Senior DevOps Engineer

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will join a substantial global engineering organisation and work in a team of highly skilled engineers in the SaaS platform area. You will be part of a team that follows Agile methodologies to deliver market-leading insurance solutions. This is a new position created as the organisation continues to grow and accelerate the delivery of innovative solutions that harness the latest advances in technology.

The role is to work on the evolution of the SaaS delivery platform for WTWs flagship product Radar Live SaaS. You will have worked on large scale and globally deployed SaaS applications that have a mature stack management capability. A sound technical background is essential to be successful in this role with experience in delivering large scale Cloud services.

The ideal candidate will enjoy building automated environment-agnostic cloud platforms. Have strong troubleshooting and operational instincts. Prefer IaC and policy-driven automation over manual work. Be comfortable working across Dev Ops Security and Architecture. Can balance reliability quality speed and practical engineering trade-offs.

The Role

As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be expected to:

Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC)

• Maintain and extend IaC modules using OpenTofu (Terraform fork).
• Implement reusable parameterized templates for Azure infrastructure.
• Automate environment provisioning across development and production.
• Manage backend state pipelines and state-change detection integrations.

Platform Engineering & SRE

• Own and improve reliability observability and performance of the platform.
• Implement SLOs alerting dashboards and auto remediation where possible.
• Troubleshoot cluster level networking and workload deployment issues.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) and drive long-term reliability improvements.

Automation & Tooling

• Develop automation scripts and tooling in PowerShell.
• Build and optimize Azure DevOps (ADO) YAML pipelines.
• Integrate automated testing security scanning and automated rollout strategies like blue/green or canary where appropriate.

Workflow & Delivery

• Work in an Agile environment using ADO for planning and tracking.
• Collaborate closely with developers platform engineers and security.
• Participate in on-call rotations (if required).

What youll bring

The essential skills/experience for this position are:

• Strong experience with OpenTofu/Terraform for IaC.

• Handson expertise with AKS including:

  • cluster operations

  • node pools & autoscaling

  • ingress cert-manager CNI

  • workload deployment patterns

• Experience of Azure Cloud Services:

  • Azure Front Door (AFD) and API Management (APIM)

  • Azure DNS Key Vault MSI networking identity / Azure Entra ID

• Monitoring: Datadog Log Analytics Azure Monitor

• Skilled in Scripting (PowerShell Bash Python) automation.

• Proficient in Azure DevOps: repos pipelines artifacts.

• Solid understanding of Azure networking DNS/private endpoints Certificate/Secret management etc

• Strong debugging and operational experience (SRE mindset).

• Solid experience of DevSecOps architecture processes & tooling

• Solid understanding of Observability

  • Process & Tooling

  • Logging metrics traces dashboards

Other highly desirable but not essential skills are:

• Experience with:

  • GitOps - ArgoCD or GitOps workflows

  • Zero downtime deployments (blue/green/canary patterns)

  • Prometheus/Grafana

• Microsoft Azure Certification (Az-104 Az-305 Az-400).

• Kubernetes Certification (CKA).

• Terraform Associate / OpenTofu equivalent (when available).

• Experience with high volume low latency SaaS systems.

• Experience with distributed and event driven architectures.

• Experience with Ingress Solutions such as Azure Front Door and API Management.

• Experience with IAM Authentication / Authorisation.

• Degree-educated in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or equivalent industry experience

• Appreciation of current and emerging technologies along with their potential benefits and limitations.

• General knowledge of the Insurance Industry.

What we offer

Enjoy a benefits package designed to help you thrive both professionally and personally. Youll receive 25 days of annual leave plus an extra WTW day to relax and recharge. Our comprehensive health and wellbeing offering includes private healthcare life insurance group income protection and regular health assessments all giving you peace of mind. Secure your future with our defined contribution pension scheme featuring matched contributions up to 10% from the company.

We support your growth and balance with hybrid working options access to an employee assistance programme and a fully paid volunteer day to make a difference in your community. On top of these you can opt into a variety of additional perks including an electric vehicle car scheme share scheme cycle-to-work programme dental and optical cover critical illness protection and much more. Start making the most of your career and wellbeing with a range of benefits tailored for you.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Were committed to equal employment opportunity and provide application interview and workplace adjustments and accommodations to all applicants. If you foresee any barriers from the application process through to joining WTW please email

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