platform engineer for reinsurance

Hiscox Re underwrites reinsurance risks from around the world on behalf of its own and other people’s capital. Its team serves brokers and clients across a broad range of reinsurance products, using a product-led underwriting approach supported by purpose-built analytics and systems.

• Help create, maintain, and secure CI/CD pipelines for publishing code to cloud environments, supporting fast, frequent, automated, and reliable deployments
• Contribute to automating cloud and on-premise infrastructure setup and maintenance using tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Support the adoption of DevOps principles and culture within squads, contributing ideas to improve automation and ways of working
• Help build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging at platform, application, and data levels
• Participate in incident management, problem resolution, and root cause analysis; investigate issues, document findings, and implement agreed preventative measures
• Help identify time-saving and cost-optimizing opportunities, review resource utilization, and contribute to efficiency improvements
• Support secure, scalable, and resilient production and development/test environments, developing knowledge of containerized, serverless, microservice, and data service patterns
• Help embed security checks and gates, including SAST/DAST, in CI/CD pipelines
• Support threat modelling and risk assessments and help implement security controls throughout design and build
• Help respond to security threats and vulnerabilities, support application security processes, and maintain compliance across environments
• Work with platform engineering, governance and architecture, information security, and development squads to apply security, compliance, tagging, and naming standards consistently

• Good awareness of cloud-native services and containerized systems, with some practical exposure
• Understanding of data platforms, orchestration, warehouses, data lakes, and lakehouses
• Practical experience with Azure DevOps pipelines or similar tools, such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Puppet
• Some experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, or operational support
• Working knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Azure Resource Manager templates, Bicep, or YAML, and understanding of version control and state management
• Hands-on experience with Azure, GCP, or hybrid cloud environments
• Awareness of secure engineering practices, risk concepts, and application security testing approaches such as SAST and DAST
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as New Relic or ELK, and understanding of how alerts, dashboards, and cloud cost visibility support reliability and efficiency
• Interest in new techniques and tools, with willingness to learn, experiment, and adopt them where appropriate
• Comfortable working in a cross-functional team, learning from others, and contributing to continuous improvement

• The position is based in Lisbon, Portugal