Summary
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Join a growing technology company as a hands-on DevOps and Platform Security Engineer. You will build and improve Azure infrastructure and deployment pipelines while owning cloud security, governance, resilience, and observability. The role also provides an opportunity to tackle emerging security challenges around agentic and AI-enabled applications.
Highlights
Fully remote UK role with strong compensation and broad ownership across cloud infrastructure, security, governance, resilience, observability, and emerging AI technologies. Excellent opportunity to influence a growing technology platform.
Description
DevOps / Platform Security Engineer – Insurtech
Remote – UK | c£80,000
We’re recruiting for an exciting Insurtech start-up business looking for a hands-on DevOps / Platform Security Engineer to take a key role in the development, operation and security of its cloud-based technology platform.
This is a broad role combining DevOps Engineering with cloud/platform security, making it an excellent opportunity for an Engineer who enjoys building robust cloud infrastructure while also taking real ownership of security, governance, resilience and emerging AI technologies.
Working closely with the wider technology team, you’ll help ensure the platform is secure, scalable, observable and well governed, including the rapidly evolving challenges associated with Agentic AI and AI-enabled applications.
Key responsibilities will include:
Building, maintaining and improving Azure cloud infrastructure, environments and deployment pipelinesDesigning and managing appropriate sandbox, development, test and production separationDeveloping automation, tooling and platform capabilities using PythonTaking ownership of platform and cloud security, identifying vulnerabilities and strengthening security controlsImplementing and managing static, dynamic and AI-assisted security analysisDeveloping effective observability, monitoring, logging, alerting and auditabilitySupporting platform performance, reliability, scalability and Azure cloud cost controlManaging AI model routing, access, usage and governanceSupporting the integration and operation of AI-enabled applications and servicesEnsuring appropriate controls around the use of Agentic AI, AI models and AI-enabled servicesSupporting security, risk and compliance requirements as the business and platform scaleWorking collaboratively with Developers, Data/AI specialists and other technical stakeholders to embed security throughout the development lifecycleHelping establish secure engineering practices for AI workloads, APIs, automation and cloud-native services
You’ll need to bring:
Commercial experience in DevOps, Platform and Cloud EngineeringStrong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and cloud securitySolid Python development/scripting for automation, tooling or platform engineeringExperience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as CodeHands-on experience with AI/ML, LLMs, Generative AI or AI-enabled applicationsExperience with Agentic AI / AI agents and an understanding of AI security and governanceKnowledge of observability, monitoring, audit logging and security toolingExperience in Insurtech or Fintech, with the flexibility to thrive in a fast-moving startup environment
This is a particularly interesting opportunity for someone who wants more breadth and ownership than a traditional DevOps position, combining Azure cloud engineering, Python development, security and cutting-edge AI / Agentic AI technology within a growing Insurtech.
There are excellent prospects for future career development.
