Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Job Description:

Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Any UK Bupa office

North: Salford Quays or Leeds

South: Staines, London or Brighton

Permanent

Full time 37.5 hours

Salary from: £57,800 per annum (DOE and location) plus 10% Bonus

Advert closes Friday 26th June 2026

We make health happen

At Bupa, we’re here to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives and make a better world. Because we don’t have shareholders, we can focus on what matters most — our customers and our people.

As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you’ll play a key role in building and maintaining the technology platforms that support our services. Your work will help ensure our systems are reliable, secure and scalable, enabling our teams to deliver high-quality care and support to customers.

You’ll work with modern cloud technologies and collaborate with teams across engineering, security and operations. This is an opportunity to shape how we build and run our platforms, while developing your skills in a supportive and purpose-led environment.

How you’ll help us make health happen

As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer, you will:

• Design, build and maintain cloud-based platforms and infrastructure

• Support the reliability, performance and security of systems

• Develop automated processes to improve efficiency and consistency

• Work closely with engineering teams to enable smooth delivery of applications

• Monitor systems and respond to issues to ensure service continuity

• Contribute to continuous improvement of platform capabilities

• Ensure solutions align with best practice and internal standards

• Share knowledge and support colleagues within the team

Key Skills/Qualifications needed for this role

We’re looking for a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer who:

• Has experience working with cloud platforms (e.g. Azure, AWS or GCP)

• Demonstrates strong knowledge of infrastructure, automation and platform engineering

• Is confident working with tools for monitoring, deployment and configuration

• Has experience with scripting or programming languages (e.g. Python, PowerShell or similar)

• Understands security, reliability and performance considerations

• Works well collaboratively and communicates clearly

• Takes a proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family-friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”. We champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you require information regarding this role in an alternative format, please email: [email protected]

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