# Principal Platform Engineer

Job Type: Permanent Location: Role can be based at any of our UK offices Birmingham, London, Telford, Edinburgh with time spent working in the office and at home Flexible working: All roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about flexible working here. Closing Date: 1st November 2026 Salary and benefits: from £80,000 (dependant upon experience) plus an indicative bonus range of 30-60%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more. Who are we? We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures. Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments and navigate important choices. We offer our c

- **Id**: 2938865
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/phoenix-life-principal-platform-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: London, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-20T13:59:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-20
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T16:27:44Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 20
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7123
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Flexible schedule
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Asset Management & Funds, Life Insurance & Annuities

## Company

- **Id**: 2283810
- **Name**: Phoenix Life
- **Domain**: phoenixlife.co.uk
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/phoenixlife-co-uk>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

## Salary

- **Min**: 80000
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 107007

## Technologies

- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EventBridge** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Kinesis** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **API Gateway** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **DynamoDB** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Platform Engineering** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 20

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Kingdom** — Iso: GB; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-20T16:47:55Z
- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T03:49:01Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 58
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.779
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 19
- **Expected fill days**: 23
- **Reasons**: conf:12, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 107007
- **Is top pay**: no

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