Senior Associate Engineer (Digital Product Team)

Duties/Responsibilities

• Design and build product features across the front and back end, engaging fully in the development lifecycle of applications and tools and contributing hands-on to all development tasks, from coding to reviewing and releasing to production. Collaborate closely with team members, product owners, and stakeholders.
• Live the "you build it, you run it" model. Implement and refine DevOps practices, building and owning CI/CD pipelines, managing infrastructure as code, and instrumenting services with observability (metrics, logs, and traces) so their health is visible. Take part in operating live services, including release management, alerting, and incident response, while actively reducing toil, technical debt, and manual effort through automation.
• Take ownership of personal learning paths, continually acquiring new skills, particularly across operations, SRE, and observability, to enhance team solutions and individual performance.

Skills, Knowledge, And Experience

• You are a capable, hands-on software developer who enjoys designing and building product features across the front and back end. The operations and SRE focus in this role is something you bring in addition to strong development skills, not instead of them, and you should be equally happy shipping product features as you are improving how we run them.
• You have developed modern component-oriented front end applications using frameworks and libraries and have a good appreciation of UX (User eXperience).
• Solid working knowledge of C# and the .NET stack. Our current tech stack is primarily Microsoft / Azure focused; C# is our primary language.
• Advocate of key principles such as SOLID and CLEAN code, applying to all areas of development. Keen to write code that is self-explanatory and easy to maintain.
• You have a sound grasp of modern engineering principles and prefer working in small iterations that optimize feedback. You like to validate hypotheses via experiments.
• Alongside your development work, a genuine interest in operations and Site Reliability Engineering, and you care about how services actually behave in production, not just whether they pass their tests.
• Experience (or a strong desire to grow) building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automating the path to production. We use GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy, but an understanding of the principles behind CI/CD is more important than the specific tooling you have used. You will have worked in an environment that deploys regularly to production.
• An appreciation of observability, using metrics, logs, and traces (for example Azure Monitor / Application Insights, Datadog, Grafana/Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry) to understand system health, and an interest in SLIs/SLOs and alerting.
• Comfort with, or enthusiasm to learn, Infrastructure as Code to provision and manage environments in a repeatable, reviewable way.
• A willingness to take part in operational duties such as releases, incident response, and keeping live services healthy and reliable.
• You have an awareness of security principles and best practices to ensure secure software delivery.
• You are committed to continuous learning, staying abreast of evolving industry technologies and trends, and are keen to share and contribute to our community.
• You have experience working within an agile environment; waterfall projects are a red flag to you.
• You own change all the way to production, and the idea that a different team would test your work, or that it will not rapidly ship to production, does not sit well with you.
• You enjoy working with others and contributing to technical excellence as part of an active community.

Nice to have

• Experience with Okta (or a comparable identity and access management platform, such as Microsoft Entra ID) for authentication and authorisation.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.

Benefits Of Working At Canada Life

We believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package that’s regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, you’ll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pension and bonus scheme, along with, income protection, private medical insurance, and life assurance. We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development.

How We Work At Canada Life

Our culture is unique and incredibly important to us. We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers, and community and helping others to build better futures. Our blueprint behaviours shape and influence how we work, and are central to the relationships we have with others. Every day we are encouraged to be more curious, own the outcome, face into things together, and find a way forward.

We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us so we invest in the development of our people, technology, and workplaces. That’s why we offer a range of training, flexible working, and opportunities to grow and develop.

Diversity and inclusion

Building an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity, or any other characteristic is a key commitment for us. We are proud of the progress we’re making in DEI, and we continue for it to be a significant focus.

“At Canada Life, we believe in the power of great people from different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives coming together to build better futures. Emerging talent is crucial to our growth and creating an environment that continues to inspire us all.” Nick Harding, Chief People Officer, Canada Life UK

We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities. We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part-time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.