Senior Platform Engineer, Policy Expert
£85-110k
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2+ days a week in office
Digital home & car insurance provider
Job no longer available
Digital home & car insurance provider
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£85-110k
More information about location
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
Policy Expert is a forward-thinking business that loves to get things done. Leveraging proprietary technology and smart data, we offer reliable products and a wow customer experience.
Role
Who you are
- Hands-on GCP experience - especially in infrastructure or data platform contexts (e.g. BigQuery, Cloud Functions, IAM etc.)
- Proficiency in at least one infrastructure as code language; experience in Terraform would be ideal
- Strong emphasis on automation - building testable and repeatable infrastructure through continuous delivery pipelines
- Comfortable developing and managing modern CI/CD tooling e.g. GitHub actions, Gitlab-ci, CircleCI
- Proficient in Python with a strong emphasis on scripting in a test-driven, object-oriented manner - essential for developing automation and tooling used within the platform
- Experience developing AWS cloud infrastructure is a bonus, as you will have the opportunity to contribute to our existing AWS estate
- A mindset of treating Infrastructure as Software - using code reviews, trunk-based development, and automated testing
- Operational experience with observability practices and tooling such as logging, alerting and tracing
- Cost awareness and ability to manage cloud spend efficiently
- Comfortable leading technical initiatives and mentoring others in best practices
What the job involves
- The Platform team underpins everything our tech teams build. We’re here to empower developers to ship confidently and at speed - creating a scalable, secure environment with great developer experience
- Defining and implementing best practices in infrastructure, software delivery, in our new GCP environments
- Managing and evolving our CI/CD tooling using GitHub Actions to enable rapid, reliable software delivery
- Building reusable Infrastructure-as-Code templates and pipelines that product and data teams can build on
- Developing automation and tooling to improve developer productivity and operational efficiency
- Providing expert advice and guidance to other developer teams on cross-functional aspects, identifying performance bottlenecks, and ensuring optimal scalability
- Championing cloud cost optimisation, observability, and high-quality infrastructure delivery practices
- Leveraging the latest technologies and tools to enhance developers' productivity and overall platform experience
Application process
- We aim to be in touch within 14 working days of your application – you will be notified if successful or unsuccessful. Please be encouraged to apply even if you do not meet all the requirements
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Policy Expert is a trusted insurance provider, serving more than 1M home and car insurance customers across the UK since its launch in 2011. Policy Expert was the first insurer to be designed for aggregator sites, allowing it to capitalise on the growth of price comparison sites like Compare the Market and GoCompare.
It is a part of QMetric Group, which set out to redesign what an insurer should be, even before 'InsurTech' was a word. It has streamlined how people buy insurance by building its own tech and owning the process end to end. With a strong belief that competition and transparency are key to the future of any market, QMetric launched Policy Expert to meet the changing consumer trends over the past decade.
Since its founding, it has recorded significant year-on-year growth to become one of the UK’s ten biggest home insurance providers while diversifying its proposition by entering the motor market in 2019. Now, with Cinven acquiring a majority shareholder, Policy Expert is in a great position to further accelerate its growth and expand even further in the years to come.
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Intelligent people
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Company values
- We act with Expertise
- We work as a Team
- We care about People
- We stick to our Principles
- We get things done
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Adam Powell
(Co-Founder & COO)COO at Policy Expert since 2010, prior to which he was the Head of New Markets at Simply Business.
Steve Hardy
(CEO)Previously a Non Executive Director at Roojai, QMetric Group, C-Quence.
People progressing
Paul started as a Business Analyst back in 2019 and has been fundamental in our growth and now Policy Experts Head of Delivery.
Ezgi joined back in 2019 in the Business Analysis team. She has excelled in her work and really contributed to building out the function. In 2023 she was promoted to Head of Business Analysis and in 2025 further promoted to Senior Product Manager.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Policy Expert
- We’re committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every employee feels welcome, and different perspectives are valued and encouraged. We respect and value people's differences. In fact, we welcome it, as this brings a wider range of ideas, opinions and experience.
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