Person Specification :

Mandatory skillset:

• 5+ years’ DevOps/Platform Engineering experience delivering solutions in Azure and/or GCP.
• Full‑stack application and infrastructure solution design, ensuring robust security controls, high availability, and operational resilience throughout.
• Working knowledge of vulnerability and compliance management (scanning through to remediation), patch management, endpoint protection/anti-malware, and access control management (e.g., IAM/PAM), including driving findings to closure.
• Working knowledge of threat modelling and risk assessment, applied to cloud architectures and CI/CD pipelines to guide secure design and prioritised risk treatment.
• Experience with AppSec tooling, including CI/CD integration, tuning to reduce noise, and triaging results with engineers to prioritise remediation and prevent regressions.
• Strong leadership skills. You will help lead the wider technology and change teams to improve our DevOps and Security maturity by educating others and delegating responsibilities across your chapter, other engineering chapters, and Group IT teams.
• Experience with Terraform, and platform solutions.
• Experience working on solutions with integrations between GCP and Azure.
• Knowledge of Cloud native, microservices and containerised systems.
• To have a strong desire for continuous improvement and an Agile way of working.

Ideally in addition:

• Knowledge of the insurance and London Market ecosystem; Lloyd’s market experience is particularly valuable.
• Proven, hands-on software delivery experience, including platform engineering and/or build, release, and deployment engineering using modern DevOps practices.
• Experience delivering and operating technology in regulated environments, with a strong understanding of controls, audit expectations, and evidence-based compliance.
• Able to clearly explain the processes, patterns, and tooling used to ensure quality, stability, performance, scalability, secure deployment, maintainability, and effective documentation.
• Broad awareness of major cloud providers and services, with curiosity to evaluate and adopt capabilities that improve security, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Proactive and improvement-focused, challenging the status quo and driving automation and simplification wherever it adds value.
• Strong delivery focus, able to prioritise effectively and deliver outcomes in a fast-paced environment with shifting demands.
• Able to operate effectively in a small, high-impact team while collaborating across a wider product/engineering organisation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, able to influence at all levels and present complex topics clearly.
• Comfortable working in ambiguity and adapting quickly as priorities, technology, and threats evolve.
• Up-to-date knowledge of security practices, processes, and tooling, with the judgement to apply emerging approaches pragmatically.

Why Hiscox?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join Hiscox during a time of focused growth where you will have the remit to make a real difference.

At Hiscox we care about our people. We hire the best people for the job and we’re committed to diversity and creating a truly inclusive culture, which we believe drives success.

Work with amazing people and be part of a unique culture