Admiral Group Plc
hackajob is collaborating with Admiral Group Plc to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. We are looking for an enthusiastic and inquisitive Platform Engineer to help strengthen our platform engineering capabilities and improve the supportability, observability, and documentation of our infrastructure. You will ensure that infrastructure, connectivity, and shared service dependencies are fully mapped, documented, and efficiently supported. You will play a central role in enabling engineering teams by developing and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling, with a particular focus on standardising support processes and improving cross-team efficiency. The role is highly collaborative, supporting teams with scalable, secure infrastructure patterns, and shared operational capabilities. You will work with GCP native technologies along with Terraform and Azure DevOps, and contribute to a platform-first engineering culture that values quality, automation, and continuous improvement. Main Duties Platform Engineering & Enablement Design, deliver, and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, enabling scalable, secure environments. Support the engineering community by defining infrastructure standards, reusable tooling, and shared CI/CD workflows. Maintain clear documentation of infrastructure, connectivity, and platform dependencies across environments. Champion the creation and maintenance of support documentation, diagrams, and knowledge bases for platform components. Enable integration of 3rd party services and SaaS platforms with Admiral's services. Observability & Troubleshooting Ensure observability is embedded across all layers of the infrastructure stack, enabling proactive alerting, monitoring, and root cause analysis. Evaluate and implement tooling to enhance visibility, debugging, and response times for platform services. Collaborate with teams to ensure logs, metrics, and traces are appropriately captured and visualised. Standardisation & Process Improvement Define and advocate for standard processes in platform support, infrastructure change, and incident escalation. Identify and document shared services across the platform, and establish clear ownership models and escalation paths. Review and contribute to infrastructure change processes and CI/CD reviews, ensuring standards are met. Automation & CI/CD Develop and support CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (or equivalent tools), promoting automation across delivery pipelines. Contribute to GitOps practices and infrastructure automation through version-controlled, testable configurations. Ensure pipelines include infrastructure validation, environment promotion, and automated testing stages. Collaboration & Communication Collaborate closely with engineering squads, architecture, governance, and security teams to deliver shared platform outcomes. Contribute actively to Squad, Chapter, and Guild forums, raising platform standards and sharing reusable patterns. Help onboard and support teams using platform infrastructure, ensuring consistent adoption and support coverage. Experience Required Technical Expertise Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub. Proven experience using Terraform to manage Infrastructure as Code. Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and practical experience with tools like Azure DevOps. Experience integrating 3rd party services/SaaS platforms with Enterprise cloud implementations. Proficient in using Git and version control practices. Familiarity with GitOps tools (e.g. ArgoCD). Scripting skills (e.g. Bash, Python) to build automation and tooling. Exposure to monitoring, logging, and observability tooling (e.g. Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, GCP Operations Suite). Understanding of shared service architecture, security, and access control patterns. Behavioural Competencies Strategic Documentation: Ensures infrastructure and connectivity are mapped, maintained, and shared to avoid knowledge gaps. Cross-Team Collaboration: Works effectively with engineering, security, support, and governance to improve platform maturity. Problem Solving: Identifies platform bottlenecks and works to resolve them through tooling and process improvements. Initiative & Ownership: Actively drives improvements to infrastructure reliability, supportability, and knowledge sharing. Resilience & Knowledge Sharing: Prevents single points of failure by openly sharing knowledge and standardising platform processes. Adaptability & Curiosity: Stays up to date with infrastructure trends and is comfortable learning new tools and patterns.
hackajob is collaborating with Admiral Group Plc to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. We are looking for an enthusiastic and inquisitive Platform Engineer to help strengthen our platform engineering capabilities and improve the supportability, observability, and documentation of our infrastructure. You will ensure that infrastructure, connectivity, and shared service dependencies are fully mapped, documented, and efficiently supported. You will play a central role in enabling engineering teams by developing and maintaining cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and operational tooling, with a particular focus on standardising support processes and improving cross-team efficiency. The role is highly collaborative, supporting teams with scalable, secure infrastructure patterns, and shared operational capabilities. You will work with GCP native technologies along with Terraform and Azure DevOps, and contribute to a platform-first engineering culture that values quality, automation, and continuous improvement. Main Duties Platform Engineering & Enablement Design, deliver, and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform, enabling scalable, secure environments. Support the engineering community by defining infrastructure standards, reusable tooling, and shared CI/CD workflows. Maintain clear documentation of infrastructure, connectivity, and platform dependencies across environments. Champion the creation and maintenance of support documentation, diagrams, and knowledge bases for platform components. Enable integration of 3rd party services and SaaS platforms with Admiral's services. Observability & Troubleshooting Ensure observability is embedded across all layers of the infrastructure stack, enabling proactive alerting, monitoring, and root cause analysis. Evaluate and implement tooling to enhance visibility, debugging, and response times for platform services. Collaborate with teams to ensure logs, metrics, and traces are appropriately captured and visualised. Standardisation & Process Improvement Define and advocate for standard processes in platform support, infrastructure change, and incident escalation. Identify and document shared services across the platform, and establish clear ownership models and escalation paths. Review and contribute to infrastructure change processes and CI/CD reviews, ensuring standards are met. Automation & CI/CD Develop and support CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (or equivalent tools), promoting automation across delivery pipelines. Contribute to GitOps practices and infrastructure automation through version-controlled, testable configurations. Ensure pipelines include infrastructure validation, environment promotion, and automated testing stages. Collaboration & Communication Collaborate closely with engineering squads, architecture, governance, and security teams to deliver shared platform outcomes. Contribute actively to Squad, Chapter, and Guild forums, raising platform standards and sharing reusable patterns. Help onboard and support teams using platform infrastructure, ensuring consistent adoption and support coverage. Experience Required Technical Expertise Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub. Proven experience using Terraform to manage Infrastructure as Code. Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and practical experience with tools like Azure DevOps. Experience integrating 3rd party services/SaaS platforms with Enterprise cloud implementations. Proficient in using Git and version control practices. Familiarity with GitOps tools (e.g. ArgoCD). Scripting skills (e.g. Bash, Python) to build automation and tooling. Exposure to monitoring, logging, and observability tooling (e.g. Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, GCP Operations Suite). Understanding of shared service architecture, security, and access control patterns. Behavioural Competencies Strategic Documentation: Ensures infrastructure and connectivity are mapped, maintained, and shared to avoid knowledge gaps. Cross-Team Collaboration: Works effectively with engineering, security, support, and governance to improve platform maturity. Problem Solving: Identifies platform bottlenecks and works to resolve them through tooling and process improvements. Initiative & Ownership: Actively drives improvements to infrastructure reliability, supportability, and knowledge sharing. Resilience & Knowledge Sharing: Prevents single points of failure by openly sharing knowledge and standardising platform processes. Adaptability & Curiosity: Stays up to date with infrastructure trends and is comfortable learning new tools and patterns.
Admiral Group Plc
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
hackajob is collaborating with Admiral Group Plc to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Admiral is currently recruiting for a Pricing Manager within our Travel Insurance department. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to step into a key leadership role at a pivotal stage of growth. Our Travel business is expanding rapidly, pricing approaches are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and the team is growing both in size and expertise. This role follows a hybrid model, with a requirement to be in our Cardiff office once a week . At Admiral, Pricing has always been a fundamental cornerstone of our success. While the wider travel industry remains relatively simple in its pricing approach, often relying on basic tools and limited data, we have a unique opportunity to lead the way. By leveraging Admiral's group-wide pricing capabilities, we aim to build more advanced, data-driven pricing strategies and create a sustainable competitive advantage. We're looking for an ambitious and forward-thinking pricing leader who is passionate about challenging the status quo within the travel insurance space. You'll lead one of our key pricing pillars, managing a team of analysts while shaping rating structures, exploring new data sources, strengthening controls, and driving innovation across pricing. Key Responsibilities Lead and continuously enhance pricing and rating structures to improve performance Drive competitive advantage through smarter rate change management, data use and risk selection Identify and deliver strategic pricing opportunities to support sustainable growth Use modelling and market insights to inform pricing decisions and forecast impact Analyse large loss trends and embed insights into pricing strategy Ensure pricing decisions meet regulatory requirements, including fair pricing practices Oversee end-to-end rate changes, ensuring accurate implementation and strong governance Improve data quality and insight to support better decision-making Coordinate prioritisation, delivery and monitoring of pricing changes Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure alignment and effective delivery Lead, coach and develop a high-performing pricing team Experience & Skills Proven leadership experience within Insurance Pricing, demonstrated experience Strong communication and stakeholder management skills Ability to manage workload effectively for both yourself and your team, delivering high-quality outputs Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment Strong analytical and numerical skills with excellent attention to detail Experience building business cases and evaluating pricing strategies Degree (2:1 or above) in a numerate subject (e.g. Mathematics, Engineering, Economics) Experience with programming tools such as SAS, SQL, BigQuery or similar (training provided) Self-motivated with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset Essential Criteria Proven experience Insurance Pricing, including development and optimisation of pricing or rating structures Proven leadership experience, managing and developing pricing teams Strong analytical capability, with experience using data, modelling and insight to drive pricing decisions Experience with pricing tools and programming languages (e.g. SAS, SQL, BigQuery) and a numerate degree (2:1 or above) This is not an exhaustive list, but it highlights the key responsibilities and what success in this role looks like. Admiral: Where You Can We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We're committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service. Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave. We're proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We're fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics. Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here. Disability Confident Leader As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we'll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process. If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email or contact us on . This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.
hackajob is collaborating with Admiral Group Plc to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Admiral is currently recruiting for a Pricing Manager within our Travel Insurance department. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to step into a key leadership role at a pivotal stage of growth. Our Travel business is expanding rapidly, pricing approaches are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and the team is growing both in size and expertise. This role follows a hybrid model, with a requirement to be in our Cardiff office once a week . At Admiral, Pricing has always been a fundamental cornerstone of our success. While the wider travel industry remains relatively simple in its pricing approach, often relying on basic tools and limited data, we have a unique opportunity to lead the way. By leveraging Admiral's group-wide pricing capabilities, we aim to build more advanced, data-driven pricing strategies and create a sustainable competitive advantage. We're looking for an ambitious and forward-thinking pricing leader who is passionate about challenging the status quo within the travel insurance space. You'll lead one of our key pricing pillars, managing a team of analysts while shaping rating structures, exploring new data sources, strengthening controls, and driving innovation across pricing. Key Responsibilities Lead and continuously enhance pricing and rating structures to improve performance Drive competitive advantage through smarter rate change management, data use and risk selection Identify and deliver strategic pricing opportunities to support sustainable growth Use modelling and market insights to inform pricing decisions and forecast impact Analyse large loss trends and embed insights into pricing strategy Ensure pricing decisions meet regulatory requirements, including fair pricing practices Oversee end-to-end rate changes, ensuring accurate implementation and strong governance Improve data quality and insight to support better decision-making Coordinate prioritisation, delivery and monitoring of pricing changes Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure alignment and effective delivery Lead, coach and develop a high-performing pricing team Experience & Skills Proven leadership experience within Insurance Pricing, demonstrated experience Strong communication and stakeholder management skills Ability to manage workload effectively for both yourself and your team, delivering high-quality outputs Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment Strong analytical and numerical skills with excellent attention to detail Experience building business cases and evaluating pricing strategies Degree (2:1 or above) in a numerate subject (e.g. Mathematics, Engineering, Economics) Experience with programming tools such as SAS, SQL, BigQuery or similar (training provided) Self-motivated with a proactive, solutions-focused mindset Essential Criteria Proven experience Insurance Pricing, including development and optimisation of pricing or rating structures Proven leadership experience, managing and developing pricing teams Strong analytical capability, with experience using data, modelling and insight to drive pricing decisions Experience with pricing tools and programming languages (e.g. SAS, SQL, BigQuery) and a numerate degree (2:1 or above) This is not an exhaustive list, but it highlights the key responsibilities and what success in this role looks like. Admiral: Where You Can We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We're committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service. Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave. We're proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We're fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics. Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here. Disability Confident Leader As a Disability Confident Leader, for candidates with a disability or long-term health condition, that opt into the Disability Confident scheme, we'll invite a fair and proportionate number of applicants that meet the essential requirements of the role to the first stage of our selection process. If you need any adjustments or support with your application or during the recruitment process, just let us know. Please do email or contact us on . This number is dedicated to supporting candidates that require reasonable adjustments or support during the application process.