Description

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

Job Summary

We’re seeking a Junior Azure Platform Engineer with experience in cloud, infrastructure or DevOps roles. This position is ideal for junior engineer who want to build deep skills in Azure, Infrastructure‑as‑Code, automation and platform reliability while learning from experienced engineers.

What You’ll Do

• Support provisioning, configuration and operation of Azure resources.
• Contribute to secure, scalable and well‑architected Azure environments.
• Apply best practices in identity, networking, monitoring and governance.
• Build cloud infrastructure using Terraform or Bicep.
• Use GitHub Copilot and AI agents to accelerate IaC, scripting and troubleshooting.
• Help develop automation reducing manual workload and increasing reliability.
• Assist with managing cloud environments across non‑production and production.
• Support monitoring, alerting and observability.
• Contribute to incident investigations and platform stability improvements.
• Work with CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure delivery.
• Participate in CI/CD and deployment through ADO and GitHub.
• Learn cloud delivery patterns, change control and release automation.

Essential

• Experience in cloud, infrastructure or DevOps.
• Understanding of Azure fundamentals.
• Basic scripting experience (PowerShell, Bash or Python).
• Familiarity with GitHub Copilot and AI agents.
• Diagnostic and troubleshooting ability.
• Strong teamwork, communication and problem‑solving.

**Desirable / Willing to Learn **

• Experience with Terraform or Bicep.
• Azure networking fundamentals.
• CI/CD concepts and deployment automation.
• Cloud governance, FinOps or security practices.
• Containerisation basics (Docker, AKS).

• Degree in a technical, engineering or scientific discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Azure certifications (such as AZ‑900) are beneficial but not required.