It’s an exciting time to join the team here at AXA, with significant investment planned in all UK&I businesses to transform and deliver new digital services to our customers and streamline and automate our business processes. As a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer, you’ll bring strong Azure skills and expertise and play a major part in AXA UK’s cloud transformation and build best in class platform features and services. 

If you have strong Azure Skills, with a background in Software Engineering/DevOps, we’d love to hear from you! 

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. You'll 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. We’re also happy to consider flexible working arrangements which you can discuss with Talent Acquisition. 

What you’ll be doing:  

• Providing expert guidance and architectural recommendations to clients regarding Azure services and solutions 
• Working as a technical lead to perform technical platform build activities including Azure and workload configuration for scaling, optimisation, and resilience
• Ensuring our Platform Engineers develop and maintain knowledge of security controls and inform our implementation and configuration practices, highlighting non-conformance when identified 
• Leading, developing and maintaining knowledge of the cloud and digital software platform best practice to inform design and strategic planning 
• Ensuring that our platform engineering function supports the rapid development of business systems leading to increased business capability, reliability and security 
• Responsibility for maintaining IT application infrastructure and technical documentation
• Staying up to date with the latest Azure technologies and trends and evaluate their suitability and technical usage and governance requirements 

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 we’re able to effectively manage interest. Therefore, if you’re interested in joining us at AXA, please don’t hesitate to apply. 

What you’ll bring:  

• Proven experience leading big implementations across several areas of technology within Azure 
• Ability to coach and mentor the team, driving best practice throughout 
• Background in system Azure architecture, networking, Windows and Linux configuration, DevOps or SRE roles 
• Strong coding experience 
• Proven ability to use initiative to deliver solutions to technical and business problems under tight deadlines 
• Experience with web protocols such as TCP, DNS, HTTPS, web security mechanisms (e.g., SSL, Digital signatures), proxies, firewalls & application traffic management solutions 
• Good knowledge of Azure DevOps based toolchains 
• Write and deploy infrastructure as Code (IaC) /Configuration as Code (CaC) (Azure Resource Manager, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform or similar) 
• Knowledge of automation tools and continuous delivery techniques with the ability to implement these into new environments 
• Knowledge of current and emerging technologies and trends in the Azure space 

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, we’re 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 of up to £70,000 dependent on experience  
• Annual company & performance-based 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 

To apply, click on the ‘apply for this job’ button, you’ll then need to log in or create a profile to submit your CV. We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunities Employer and don’t discriminate against employees or potential employees based on protected characteristics. If you have a long-term  condition or disability and require reasonable adjustments during the application or interview process, we’re proud to offer access to the AXA Accessibility Concierge. For our support, please send an email to lauren.standen@axa-insurance.co.uk. 

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Who we are:  
 
AXA UK Support Functions power AXA’s three customer-facing business units, providing the infrastructure, support and expertise to ensure our customers can always count on us. Whether you’ve got heaps of experience and qualifications behind you, or you’re just starting out, we’ll give you the support and opportunities to help you grow and develop with confidence.