Senior Platform Engineer Are you an experienced Platform Engineer who is looking to work within a Micro-Services environment on the latest cloud technologies? Would you like to be part of an inspiring collaborative culture? We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who can drive the delivery of continuous pipeline and develop and support our AWS cloud environment. This is a technology driven role where your DevOps experience will aid us in designing, supporting, maintaining and configuring CDL products. You will be working with Microservices architecture, based in Amazon Web Services, integrating with Elastic Stack and monitoring tools. As a Platform Engineer, you'll be automating processes using Terraform, scripting in Python and Bash, creating EC2 instances or using Elastic Stack powerful features such as Kibana and Logstash. This is an ideal career opportunity for a Senior Platform engineer who enjoys working within a collaborative, autonomous environment, whilst applying their wealth of experience. Online training tools are available, and we'd be happy to send you on conferences, training courses, to enhance your knowledge, and experience, where applicable. About CDL: 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 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.

Software Developer in Test 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. Are you passionate about quality and testing software with an Agile mindset? Do you care about 'building the right thing' and 'building the thing right'? Does being part of an innovative culture inspire you? Are you an automation rock star? Then we want you! We're looking for an Software Developer in Test to join our ranks. With a strong collaborative focus and a drive for continuous improvement, you'll play a key part in driving the implementation of strategic automation initiatives which enable better practices for our Delivery Teams to develop features that delight our customers. You'll be an experienced Agile advocate, with a strong testing background and a desire to iterate, innovate, and instigate quality-driven approaches and processes. You'll have a breadth of knowledge in all basic testing techniques, with depth and specialism in automation and in one or more other advanced areas too! You'll be an inspiring teacher, coaching and mentoring others to improve their automation skills and acting as a role model to develop the stars of tomorrow. This is the perfect opportunity to be a part of meaningful change to our flagship and newer products, and help drive a culture of excellence in everything we do. THE ROLE This is a position of influence, with a strong focus on delivery of key automation initiatives and improvements to drive a Quality culture in Testing roles and beyond. You will be comfortable working as a self-starting individual, but have a predominantly collaborative approach to implement and influence positive change in people and processes. With proven expertise and experience in Agile, Quality, and Testing, you will cultivate and strive for a continuous improvement culture and demonstrate a true left-shifted, whole team approach to Quality. As a champion of the Testing Vision and Automation Strategy, you will provide everyday role modelling for other individuals; motivating, mentoring and helping others to develop their automation skills and to aspire to better themselves. You will not be happy with the status quo and will strive passionately to challenge, advance, and refine our collective successes and our people. You will actively advocate for quality being everyone's responsibility, and embed better automation practices, with a strong 'Test Pyramid' focus as well as a collaborative, cross-functional approach. Your consideration of quality extends beyond functional behaviour, encompassing non-functional capability such as performance and security. You will be technically competent; able to direct and contribute from a demonstrable position of knowledge. You will embody CDL's values and be an ambassador for the company both internally and externally, with an active presence in the Testing community which in turn enables you to feed industry advances into our everyday working. What you'll do Collaborative contribution to complex software deliveries and projects, including devising the approach to embed Quality and automated tests from the outset Support teams in the setup and configuration of automated tests in Continuous Delivery pipelines Leadership of other roles in matters of Automation, Agile, Quality and Testing Coaching, training, and mentoring of other roles in automation approach and skills Act as a role model and inspiration for all testing roles Hands-on automated testing activity, including assisting with the creation of stubs, mocks, and drivers Close collaboration with counterparts in other teams/departments to deliver common goals Implementation of key automation initiatives, and support of other key initiatives required, to deliver the Testing Vision Contribute to the shape and focus of the Automation Strategy Evangelism and promotion of the Vision and Automation Strategy to other departments and roles Support a customer-minded focus to our delivery approach, including understanding and advocating our customers' wants and needs Liaise with customers to foster strong collaborative partnerships and provide a degree of consulting/advice for their approaches when required An established active profile (or willingness to build an active profile) in the wider/external Testing community Act as an ambassador of CDL and CDL's values both internally and externally Cultivate an enjoyable, enthusiastic, and fun working culture To be involved in the entire Software Delivery Lifecycle To prevent the creation of defects in our software To work proactively to instil quality into our products and practices To embed modern testing and automation approaches as a part of a whole-team responsibility for quality To communicate and collaborate effectively in an Agile environment To drive an automation approach with the Test Pyramid in mind

Senior Front End Developer Are you a Senior Front End Developer who is looking to join a collaborative, forward-thinking, innovative company? You will be working on our new flagship web product, as we investigate and build new ways to disrupt the current online insurance model for our broker partners. We're looking for the right kind of individual to help us achieve the ambitious targets we've set for this product. You need to have a can do attitude and outlook that sees each challenge as an opportunity. You will provide technical leadership within a mixed role squad, so that we come up with the right solutions. Your positivity, drive and technical skills will help us build amazing products. CDL are one of the UK's leading insurance software houses, we are a privately owned company that has experienced continuous year on year growth and we employ over 600 people at our campus in Stockport. We are a certified UK top employer by the Top Employers Institute and are constantly striving to provide our employees with the best working environment and conditions. We have 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. We have 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 our customers to thrive in the highly competitive UK insurance marketplace. There's also a subsidised on campus restaurant and games room. 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. We actively promote a healthy work life balance and offer a competitive benefits package.

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.