Junior Platform Engineer Do you have a hunger to learn and looking to kick start your career within a challenging and exciting DevOps environment? Do you enjoy working with the latest cloud technologies? We want to hear from you! What you'll do We are looking for a Junior Platform Engineer to join our Application support team working within a DevOps environment. This is an ideal opportunity for someone who has an IT related degree or similar training who is looking to develop their career within cloud and DevOps environment. Your role as a Junior Platform Engineer will be varied including 2nd line support, dealing with deployments from development through to production, access requests, running scripts, uploading documents, configuring end points, uploading policies and monitoring our entire estate. You will also have the opportunity to get involved in projects, patching both on-prem and cloud, whilst working with, and learning from, our 3rd line engineers. You'll be involved in: Releasing code and deploying our software to our on-prem, cloud and self-hosted solutions. Performing daily checks to verify nothing 'caught fire' overnight! Automation - using Puppet Monitoring our infrastructure using various monitoring solutions such as Elastic, Grafana, Prometheus and Cloud Watch. Monthly security patching cycles to ensure we apply the latest security patches within tight timescales. Implementing new functionality in a timely manner, aligned to client requests. Running scripts, uploading client documentation, access requests, refreshing environments and configuring environments as well. ...and also working out of hours to ensure we can deliver with minimal impact to our clients, and AWS patching. About us: CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with.

Platform Engineer Are you a Platform Engineer who enjoys working with the latest technologies in a fast paced, challenging environment? Do you have a talent for troubleshooting problems, delivering new and innovative solutions, a desire to learn and develop yourself whilst supporting others? We are looking for a Platform Engineer to support our flag ship Strata applications and components. You'll build, deploy and support environments and applications. We are a fast-paced operations team, responsible for building, configuring, monitoring and supporting solutions from development through to production. Automation is key to everything we do and we're looking for individuals to help us deliver this, you will use tools such as Puppet, Vagrant, Jenkins, Kubernetes and Elastic for a start. You'll be working alongside developers to help maintain a smooth delivery pipeline, project managers to deliver innovative solutions and service management to ensure solutions meet our clients expectations. You'll be involved in: Developing, enhancing and supporting our cloud solutions, ensuring our cloud solutions are robust enough to be destroyed and re-built overnight without anyone noticing. Developing, enhancing and supporting our on-prem and self-hosted solutions, providing seamless service. Supporting LIVE clients with the aim to resolve issues as promptly as possible but with an eye on making things better. Using Elastic you will monitor platforms to ensure we have as much information available as early as possible. Supporting clients out of hours with Severity 1 issues and play your part in delivering upgrades throughout the night About us: CDL is one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a strong track record in the high volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you're always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with.

Internal Communications Officer Do you love telling stories through great writing and the application of complimentary media - using collaboration tools to drive engagement and alignment to our business strategies? We are looking for an energetic, resourceful and self-motivated communicator with exceptional written skills and a creative flair to ensure our communications add value and support our business vision. As well as being an excellent writer and creative content producer, you will have the ability to build great relationships at all levels within the organisation. You will be committed to developing a deep understanding of our culture, motivated by the desire to ensure CDL continues to be a great place to work, so we can deliver our mission to help our customers win through technology. About CDL CDL is one of the UK's leading software development houses, employing over 600 people at its campus in Stockport. It has a consistent track record in the high-volume retail insurance sector, with clients including Ageas Retail, Swinton Insurance, Tesco Bank, iGO4 and John Lewis, to name a few. CDL has spearheaded developments in the aggregator, web and telematics space, including connected home, enrichment and self-service solutions. As a result, the company's robust and innovative technologies have enabled its customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. We've built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We pride ourselves on being part of a collaborative, inspiring working environment, with our employees at the heart of our company. What you will do: Working with the Internal Communications Manager, you will help to translate business information into effective and clear messaging, ensuring it is relevant for all employee groups. You will utilise creativity in communications activities and campaigns, helping to plan, co-create, edit and publish brilliant content across multiple channels, including our intranet and digital signage. By developing a deep understanding of our business, you will be committed to ensure all our communications have purpose, create impact and add value. You will be able to develop effective working relationships with colleagues across the organisation and build up a sound understanding of technical projects and the organisation's structure, processes and stakeholders. To support our collaborative culture, you will help to plan and organise business and social events, including employee forums; ensuring multi-way communications across all our people.

Technical Author Are you a Technical Author who is looking for a new challenging role? Do you enjoy working within an agile environment and looking to work as part of an innovative, collaborative culture? We are looking for a Technical Author who has experience within a software delivery function, who can contribute to the delivery of high-quality product documentation to our customers. You will be involved in a range of our software products and you will take real ownership of the production and maintenance of the product and user guides, release notes and product enhancements. Working closely with the product, development and support teams to create reference materials to understand features and functionality of the software. Joining our Service Management department, you will have a strong customer focus and excellent communication skills. We are looking for a Technical Author / Writer who can create and review technical documentation aimed at a variety of audiences, ensuring the correct language is applied. Your role will have a strong focus towards the continuous delivery, driving improvements you will ensure deadlines are met. About CDL CDL has established its position as a market leader in the highly competitive retail insurance sector by consistently creating powerful enterprise software solutions that deliver competitive and innovative advantage to our customers. We have built a collaborative and creative culture where we employ agile techniques to deliver our pace-setting applications. We like to work in small, focused groups so you are always learning from people around you and you feel a part of the success of each project you are involved with.