Who are we?
We’re a specialist employee benefits provider, striving to create healthy, happy workplaces. As part of the international Unum Group, we’re on a collective mission to help the working world thrive.
The roleWhat will you be doing?
General SummaryThe Senior Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining the platform infrastructure that supports software applications, services, and internal tools. This role requires advanced expertise in cloud computing, automation, containerisation, scalability, and security, and focuses on creating a stable, scalable, and efficient environment for development teams. The Senior Platform Engineer plays a critical role in ensuring that the platform architecture aligns with business needs and operational requirements
What will you bring?
- Design, build and maintain scalable, secure and reliable cloud platform infrastructure.
- Manage cloud services across compute, storage and networking, with a focus on performance, cost efficiency and resilience.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code and automation to support effective provisioning and platform management.
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines to enable smoother, safer and more efficient software releases.
- Implement monitoring, logging and performance improvements to support operational excellence and customer experience.
- Work collaboratively with Development, Security, DevSecOps and Operations teams to deliver platform solutions aligned to business needs.
- Champion security best practice, access controls and compliance standards across cloud platforms.
- Support incident response, troubleshooting and continuous improvement to minimise downtime and improve reliability.
- Mentor and support other engineers, sharing knowledge and helping to build technical capability across the team.
What we’re looking for
- Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, platform management or a similar IT engineering role.
- Hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure at scale, ideally with Azure, AWS or GCP.
- Good knowledge of cloud services including compute, storage, networking, serverless architecture, virtualisation and containerisation.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation and scripting tools such as Terraform, Azure DevOps Services, Git, PowerShell, Bash or Python.
- Experience building or managing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI or similar.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana or the ELK stack.
- A strong understanding of security principles, compliance frameworks and DevOps practices in cloud environments.
- Clear communication skills, with the confidence to work across engineering, product, security and operations teams.
- A proactive, analytical and continuous improvement mindset, with a passion for delivering high-quality solutions for customers.
At Unum, you'll be part of a collaborative and supportive environment where you'll have the opportunity to learn from experienced marketers, develop sought-after digital marketing skills, and contribute to meaningful work that supports our business growth.
In return, you'll benefit from:
- Competitive salary and generous bonus scheme
- Healthcare Cash Plan (Level 1 funded)
- Defined Contribution pension scheme
- Life assurance, private medical and income protection insurance
- Access to a remote GP, nutrition coaching, personal training, unlimited mental health support and medical second opinions
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell up to 5 additional days
- Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme with on-site charging facilities
- Free shuttle bus from Dorking train station
- A supportive culture focused on wellbeing, development and career growth
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Why join us?
At Unum, we’ve created a workplace where people feel supported to progress and grow, and can see their ambitions coming to life.
As a part of our commitment to creating an inclusive workplace, we actively encourage applications from those with disabilities and those with long-term health conditions.
If you meet the essential criteria for the role and choose to opt in to the scheme during your application, you will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme.
If you need assistance and/or reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.
Company:
Unum UKSkills Required
- Strong experience in platform engineering, DevOps, platform management, or a similar IT engineering role
- Hands-on experience managing cloud infrastructure at scale
- Experience with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Knowledge of compute, storage, networking, serverless architecture, virtualization, and containerization
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation, and scripting tools such as Terraform, Azure DevOps Services, Git, PowerShell, Bash, or Python
- Experience building or managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, or similar tools
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or the ELK stack
- Strong understanding of security principles, compliance frameworks, and DevOps practices in cloud environments
- Clear communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product, security, and operations teams
- Proactive, analytical, and continuous improvement mindset
Unum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Unum and has not been reviewed or approved by Unum.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits are described as starting day one and include medical coverage along with employer-provided life, short-term disability, and long-term disability. On-site amenities like a gym and café are also part of the health-and-extras package in some locations.
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Retirement Support — The retirement offering is positioned as a standout through a high employer 401(k) contribution. This retirement support is repeatedly framed as a key draw within the total rewards package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid time off is characterized as generous, with additional personal days and company closure days also described. The time-off program is presented as broader than many peers on paper.
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What We Do
Unum is a company of people serving people. A Fortune 500 company, we help millions of people gain affordable access to disability, life, accident, critical illness, dental and vision benefits through the workplace — benefits that help them protect their families, their finances and their futures. Our products and services meet the needs of a diverse workforce that includes four generations, growing ethnic diversity and changing family dynamics. A strong commitment to social responsibility is one of Unum's core values. In fact, we place particular emphasis on contributing to positive change in the communities in which we live and work. Helping our communities become better is a natural extension of the commitment we make each and every day to our customers — to help employers manage their businesses and employees protect their families and livelihoods. We look forward to sharing industry news, community involvement, recognition and other info we hope you find interesting and informative. We encourage your comments and feedback so we can be a valuable resource for you and get to know you a little better.
