Bupa

At Bupa, purpose meets possible. Join us and help shape a future where healthcare is more connected, more personal and more human.

We’re a global healthcare leader trusted by millions and committed to helping people to live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. Healthcare is changing, and so are we. We’re investing in more clinics, better systems and smarter, more connected ways to help our customers. As we continue to expand our services and invest in innovation, you’ll help create a healthcare system that meets people where they are, responds to what they need and leaves them better than before. Here, your work has purpose, your voice matters and your future is full of possibility.

Just imagine the impact you could make.

The role purpose.

We have an 12 month fixed term role for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join us. You'll play a key role in designing, building, and operating Bupa’s cloud platforms at scale. This role focuses on enabling secure, reliable, and cost‑effective cloud services through automation, engineering standards, and modern platform practices. You will help evolve the cloud platform as an internal product, balancing governance and control with developer productivity. Working closely with architecture, security, DevOps, SRE, FinOps, and delivery teams, you will influence how cloud services are consumed across the organisation and help maximise the value of Bupa’s cloud investments. This is a senior hands-on engineering role with strong expectations around technical leadership, platform decision‑making, and operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Platform Engineering & Enablement

• Design, build, and evolve cloud platform capabilities using Infrastructure as Code and automation‑first principles
• Define and maintain cloud landing zone standards, guardrails, and reusable platform patterns
• Develop “golden paths” and self‑service capabilities that enable application teams to safely consume cloud services
• Balance governance, security, and compliance requirements with developer experience and productivity
• Continuously improve platform scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency

DevOps, IaC & Automation

• Own and evolve CI/CD patterns for platform and infrastructure code
• Build and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines using Terraform, Python and PowerShell
• Design and maintain reusable Terraform modules with strong standards around versioning, testing, and lifecycle management
• Champion everything‑as‑code practices, including policy‑as‑code and automated validation
• Review and uplift infrastructure and pipeline designs across the Cloud Services team

Reliability, Security & Operations

• Design platform services with reliability, availability, scalability, and recoverability as first‑class concerns
• Define and implement observability standards (monitoring, logging, metrics, alerting)
• Embed security and compliance into platform designs, pipelines, and defaults (secure‑by‑design)
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and post‑incident reviews
• Partner with Security and Risk teams to implement effective governance controls through automation

Consulting, Collaboration & Influence

• Partner with architecture, development, and operations teams to review cloud designs and recommend platform‑aligned solutions
• Support product and delivery teams in modernising and optimising applications for cloud‑native environments
• Act as a trusted advisor on cloud best practices, trade‑offs, and architectural decisions
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and technology vendors
• Actively contribute to platform roadmaps, standards, and engineering forums

Leadership & Mentoring

• Act as a technical leader within the Cloud Services team
• Mentor and support other engineers, uplifting platform capability and engineering maturity
• Lead by example in engineering quality, automation, and documentation
• Influence standards and best practices across the broader technology organisation

What you’ll need to make it possible

Required Experience

• Extensive experience designing, deploying, or operating cloud platforms or workloads at enterprise scale
• Deep hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure, including:
• Landing zones and management group design
• Azure Policy, RBAC, and identity (Entra ID)
• Network and connectivity patterns (hub/spoke, private endpoints)
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform
• Proven experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform services
• Strong software engineering fundamentals, including modular design, source control, and automated testing
• Experience designing for operational excellence, reliability, and security in cloud environments

Desirable / Beneficial Experience

• Exposure to AWS services and core concepts (IAM, VPC, accounts, Terraform)
• Experience applying cloud‑agnostic design principles in multi‑cloud environments
• Familiarity with cost optimisation and FinOps practices
• Experience contributing to or leading internal platform or shared services

Qualifications

• Microsoft Azure Associate or Expert certification (desirable)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical stakeholder

Why you’ll love it?

At Bupa, our purpose is to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives and make a better world, and we know this starts with delivering our purpose for our people.

Our wellbeing program Viva has been designed to help you to live a healthy and happy life. It includes access to health & general insurance discounts, information and education sessions, and preventative healthcare screening such as annual health assessments and skin checks. Through Viva you have access to a range of benefits that will help you to maintain your physical, mental, social, digital, environmental and financial wellbeing. As well as a competitive salary, a range of Bupa benefits and flexible working, you’ll be challenged and encouraged to innovate.

If this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you. Let’s shape the future of healthcare, together.

At Bupa your wellbeing, identity, and personal story are respected and valued. We are continuing to build teams that reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. Bupa is committed to providing equal opportunities and fostering a workplace and environment that is free of discrimination, bullying and harassment.

We actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds and experiences, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, veterans, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ applicants.

We are dedicated to removing barriers to participation. If you need any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, or if you’d like to discuss how this role can be flexible for you, please let us know so we can support your participation on an equitable basis.

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