Job Summary
We are seeking a hands-on Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design, harden and evolve SCOR's Engineering Platform. In this role, you will own complex reusable Azure blueprints, infrastructure modules and GitLab delivery patterns consumed by multiple application teams, integrating security, observability and operational controls by default. You will guide technical decisions with Architecture, Security and Operations, resolve difficult onboarding and production issues, and coach engineers contributing to shared platform assets. The target profile is approximately seven or more years of relevant experience, with demonstrated ownership of shared production capabilities.
Key duties and responsibilities
• Build the paved road: You design and harden reusable Azure blueprints for landing zones, AKS, Azure Container Apps, storage, PostgreSQL and related services.
• Infrastructure as code: You set design and testing practices for Terraform/OpenTofu modules, review contributions and manage versioning, state, compatibility and safe upgrades.
• CI/CD and golden pipelines: You design GitLab project templates and Java/Python pipelines with secure defaults, non-bypassable controls, release automation and evidence.
• Platform automation: You design integrations for identity, networking, firewall changes, onboarding, service registration and traceability with enterprise systems.
• Observability by default: You define reusable logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts and health-check patterns for application and infrastructure blueprints.
• Reliability and operability: You apply SRE practices, guide complex incident diagnosis and improve recovery, runbooks and operational readiness.
• Application onboarding: You guide difficult new, replatforming and re-architecting workloads and resolve cross-team integration issues.
• Security and hardening: You work with Architecture, Security and Compliance to design policy guardrails, approval controls and secure-by-default patterns.
• Documentation and enablement: You coach engineers, review shared-asset contributions and maintain technical guidance for application and operational teams.
Required experience & competencies
Professional Experience
• Approximately seven or more years of hands-on cloud, DevOps, SRE or platform engineering experience; proven ownership matters more than a strict year count.
• Proven experience designing and operating cloud or internal developer platforms used by multiple application teams.
• Strong Azure production experience across PaaS, AKS/Kubernetes and managed application services.
• Deep Terraform/OpenTofu expertise, including reusable module design, automated testing, state, versioning and safe upgrades.
• Strong GitLab CI/CD or equivalent experience with reusable pipelines, automated controls and release workflows.
• Experience integrating networking, identity, security, observability and operational controls into platform automation.
• Experience leading complex application onboarding and troubleshooting production issues with developers and operations.
• Experience in regulated or highly controlled enterprise environments is an advantage.
• Professional fluency in English. French is a plus.
Soft Skills
• Strong hands-on ownership and technical judgement with a bias toward automation and reusable solutions.
• Ability to lead technical discussions across Platform Engineering, Architecture, Security, Compliance and Operations without people management.
• Advanced troubleshooting and ability to simplify complex technical decisions for other teams.
• A platform-as-a-product mindset balancing developer adoption, security and operational resilience.
• Constructive code review, coaching, documentation and knowledge sharing in an international environment.
Technical Skills
• Azure AKS, Azure Container Apps, PaaS, Storage, PostgreSQL, landing zones, identity and private networking.
• Advanced Terraform/OpenTofu module design, testing, state and upgrade management, policy-as-code and guardrails.
• GitLab CI/CD templates, protected branches, merge-request controls, supply-chain checks and release evidence automation.
• Kubernetes deployment, networking, identity, scaling and complex production troubleshooting.
• Logs, metrics, traces, alerts, health checks, SLI/SLO concepts, recovery and runbook design.
• Python, Bash or PowerShell and API integrations; ServiceNow or equivalent ITSM integration is a plus.
Required Education
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related technical field; or equivalent professional experience.
As a leading global reinsurer, SCOR offers its clients a diversified and innovative range of reinsurance and insurance solutions and services to control and manage risk. Applying “The Art & Science of Risk,” SCOR uses its industry-recognized expertise and cutting-edge financial solutions to serve its clients and contribute to the welfare and resilience of society in around 160 countries worldwide.
Working at SCOR means engaging with some of the best minds in the industry – actuaries, data scientists, underwriters, risk modelers, engineers, and many others – as we work together to find solutions to pressing challenges facing societies.
As an international company, our common culture is defined by “The SCOR Way.” Serving both to build momentum that drives the Group forward and as a compass to guide our actions and choices, The SCOR Way is anchored by five core values, reflecting the input of employees at all levels of the Group. We care about clients, people, and societies. We perform with integrity. We act with courage. We encourage open minds. And we thrive through collaboration.
SCOR supports inclusion and the diversity of talents, and all positions are open to people with disabilities.
Skills Required
- Approximately seven or more years of hands-on cloud, DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering experience
- Experience designing and operating cloud or internal developer platforms used by multiple application teams
- Strong production experience with Azure, including PaaS, AKS/Kubernetes, and managed application services
- Deep Terraform or OpenTofu expertise, including reusable module design, automated testing, state, versioning, and safe upgrades
- Strong GitLab CI/CD or equivalent experience with reusable pipelines, automated controls, and release workflows
- Experience integrating networking, identity, security, observability, and operational controls into platform automation
- Experience leading complex application onboarding and troubleshooting production issues with developers and operations
- Professional fluency in English
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
- Experience in regulated or highly controlled enterprise environments
- French language proficiency
- ServiceNow or equivalent ITSM integration experience
What We Do
SCOR, one of the world’s largest reinsurers, serves more than 5,000 clients worldwide, providing a diversified and innovative range of solutions to control and manage risk. SCOR delivers advanced financial solutions, analytics and services across all dimensions of risk in Life & Health, Property & Casualty, and Investments. Reinsurance lies at the intersection of technical expertise and scientific progress. Models, data, and pricing and reserving tools are essential, yet they are never sufficient on their own. Sound risk decisions require expert judgment, experience and perspective. This is what we call the Art and Science of Risk. Reinsurance is a knowledge industry, where expertise grows through accumulation, transmission and practice. Across the Group, 3,600 experts based in more than 35 offices worldwide contribute to this collective intelligence. Actuaries, underwriters, risk management specialists, and Tech & Data experts transform data into insight, explore extreme scenarios, define the boundaries of insurability and help anticipate emerging risks. Together, they strengthen the resilience of SCOR, our clients and the societies we serve. This expertise is built through shared experience,continuous questioning and collective reflection. Like artists, we belong to schools of thought, learning first to observe, then to replicate, and ultimately to innovate. This ongoing transmission of knowledge enables SCOR to develop a distinctive approach, combining rigor, creativity and long-term vision in the service of risk mastery. This shared commitment underpins SCOR’s role as a global reinsurer. By turning risk into resilience and sustainable value, our collective of experts acts with responsibility and purpose. Together, we help protect the future, and shape it, for our clients, for society and for generations to come.
