Core Cloud Platform Engineer

About Us:

At SCOR, we combine the Art and Science of risk to help build more resilient societies. Technology is a vital resource and partner in every step of our journey. We are seeking innovators to join our dynamic tech team of over 200 professionals across three global hubs. Guided by our corporate values: Collaboration, Courage, Care, Open-Mindedness, and Integrity. Our teams develop technology that insures the world. Join us and make a difference!

Job Summary

We are seeking a hands-on Core Cloud Platform Engineer to build and improve SCOR's Engineering Platform. In this internal role, you will implement and maintain approved Azure infrastructure modules, deployment blueprints and GitLab CI/CD templates, with security and observability built in. Working with platform colleagues and application teams, you will make onboarding and day-to-day operations more repeatable and reliable. The target profile is approximately five years of relevant cloud, DevOps or platform engineering experience.

Key duties and responsibilities

- Build the paved road : You implement and maintain approved Azure PaaS and container deployment blueprints, including storage and PostgreSQL integrations.

- Infrastructure as code : You develop, test, document and version reusable Terraform/OpenTofu modules within agreed standards and review processes.

- CI/CD and golden pipelines : You improve GitLab project templates and Java/Python pipelines, including automated tests, quality and security checks and releases.

- Platform automation : You automate routine onboarding, configuration and service-registration steps using approved platform interfaces.

- Observability by default : You add logs, metrics, dashboards and alerts to application and infrastructure templates using agreed patterns.

- Reliability and operability : You investigate deployment failures, improve runbooks and help resolve recurring platform issues.

- Application onboarding : You help teams select approved patterns, configure repositories and environments and prepare deployments for production.

- Security and hardening : You apply established guardrails, branch protections, approval controls and security checks in shared modules and pipelines.

- Documentation and enablement : You maintain clear examples and documentation and help application teams use the platform effectively.

Required experience & competencies

Professional Experience

• Approximately five years of hands-on cloud engineering, DevOps, SRE or platform engineering experience; equivalent demonstrated delivery experience is welcome.

• Experience implementing Azure PaaS or container services and shared engineering capabilities for application teams.

• Hands-on experience with Azure services and working knowledge of AKS or comparable container platforms.

• Experience creating or maintaining reusable Terraform/OpenTofu modules , including automated tests and versioning.

• Experience with GitLab CI/CD or equivalent, including reusable pipelines, checks and deployment automation.

• Working knowledge of networking, identity, security and observability when integrating approved platform patterns.

• Experience troubleshooting deployments and supporting application teams through technical onboarding.

• Experience in controlled enterprise environments is useful but not required.

• Professional fluency in English. French is a plus.

Soft Skills

• A pragmatic, hands-on mindset and willingness to automate repeatable work.

• Ability to collaborate with platform, application, Architecture, Security and Operations colleagues.

• Problem-solving and ownership of assigned issues through resolution and documentation.

• A product mindset and attention to the usability of shared modules and templates.

• Clear communication, documentation and knowledge sharing in an international environment.

Technical Skills

• Azure PaaS and container fundamentals; familiarity with AKS, Azure Container Apps, Storage and PostgreSQL.

• Terraform/OpenTofu modules, testing, basic state management and approved infrastructure patterns.

• GitLab CI/CD templates, branching, merge-request controls, security and quality checks and releases.

• Containers and Kubernetes fundamentals, including deployment, configuration and basic troubleshooting.

• Logs, metrics, dashboards, alerts, health checks and operational triage.

• Python, Bash or PowerShell scripting and basic API-based automation.

Required Education

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or a related technical field; or equivalent professional experience.

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