Canada Life Assurance Europe plc (‘CLE’) is a dynamic insurance company with over 700 people across our offices in Germany and Ireland. We have been operating in Germany since 2000 and have established a fast-growing presence in one of the world’s largest and most established markets. We specialise in providing innovative unit-linked pension, savings, and protection solutions and have become a trusted partner for life insurance products distributed through independent brokers. It is our priority to support our customers at every stage of life with the best products and service, tailored to their needs - and we’re doing it all in a culture that promotes equality and inclusion for all of our current and future employees.
CLE is currently seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to lead the growing Platform team. You will be responsible for leading the implementation of scalable cloud platform, reporting to the Head of Software Engineering. Candidates will have a strong cloud engineering background and experience in automation, SRE, Agile methodologies, and cloud technologies.
The ideal candidate will have proven experience:
- Building and supporting scalable, resilient cloud-based architectures
- Standardising approaches and patterns across many applications and teams
- Migration of on-premises applications to the cloud
- Liaising with team leads and stakeholders; mentoring junior team members
- Creating and socialising architecture patterns, designs, and maintaining a growing service catalog
Responsibilities:
- Implement best of breed, scalable solutions according to defined patterns and practices
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Write and manage declarative infrastructure using tools like Terraform or Azure Bicep
- Continuously optimise and improve the Cloud Platform through automation and FinOps practices
- Security & Compliance: Implement identity and access management (IAM), network security groups, and encryption protocols.
- Monitoring & Reliability: Set up observability tools to track system health and performance
- Provide expert guidance to development, platform, and operations teams throughout the project lifecycle.
- Mentor and lead junior team members and unblock progress through forward-thinking and experience
Essential Skills:
- Experience in designing, implementing, securing and monitoring production grade cloud platforms.
- 5 plus years' experience as a Cloud Engineer or DevOps/Platform role.
- Highly proficient in pipeline architecture and automation; experience with Azure DevOps being preferred
- Knowledge and experience of Terraform, Helm, Bash, and PowerShell
- Good knowledge of System Architectures, Software Engineering, and DevOps / Agile practices - experience of Agile Methodologies and operating in agile / scrum based teams
- Excellent problem-solving skills, and ability to craft effective solutions
- Excellent team player, collaborative, and supportive
- Ability to multitask while maintaining a high level of attention to detail.
- A solution driven, self-starter with commitment and follow through
- Fluent in English – written and verbal
Necessary Qualifications / Skills:
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in a similar role.
- 3rd level qualification (honours degree), preferably in a related discipline.
Desired Skills & Experience
- Knowledge of insurance or financial services industry applications and functionality.
- Experience with Cloud Computing platforms – Azure, AWS or GCP.
- Experience using JIRA/Confluence.
- Working knowledge of German language
Technologies & Frameworks:
- Experience with Terraform, Bicep.
- CI/CD: Jenkins, Azure DevOps.
- Scripting: Strong command of Bash or PowerShell.
- Networking & Communication Protocols – DNS, TCPIP, UDP, HTTP, HTTPS, SSL, FTP, SCP.
- Good knowledge of cloud networking (VNETs, private endpoints, load balancers, DNS, firewalls, hybrid connectivity).
- Systems integration experience across multi-vendor and multi-cloud platforms.
- Working knowledge of at least one API Gateway (Azure API Management preferred).
- Experience in Containerisation – Kubernetes (AKS), Docker, etc.
- Demonstrable experience designing and consuming many Microsoft Azure PaaS services
- CI/CD Pipelines: Experience with building and optimising automated deployment workflows via Azure DevOps or Jenkins.
- Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC) best practices
- Experience working in Agile environments alongside software development and security teams
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, able to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences.
- Ability to think big picture; building solutions that tackle problems both in the short term and future
The company reserves the right to draw up a shortlist as part of the selection process. Where Agency assistance is required the Canada Life Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Canada Life by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.
Even if you don’t see yourself reflected in every job requirement listed on the posting above, we encourage you to reach out and apply if you feel you are a good fit for the role. We are committed to creating a more equitable, inclusive and diverse company, and we strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation and life experiences to apply.
Canada Life Group Services is proud to be an Equal Opportunities employer. We have created an environment of inclusion and growth to help people achieve their potential, to ensure they can bring their whole selves to work and to feel valued. We celebrate diversity of thought and perspective and want all of our employees to feel valued, respected and supported. We have built a culture that promotes equality and inclusion for all of our current and future employees and strive to ensure that our behaviours, processes and practices are aligned to this culture.
If you require any accommodations during the recruitment process please contact [email protected] and we will be delighted to ensure you are fully supported to be your best.
CLGS supports Equal Opportunity and is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland.
