Infrastructure Engineer

XPS Insurance Consulting launched in Autumn 2024, making our entry into the market with a strong commitment to supporting UK life, annuity insurance clients and general insurance. Our mission is simple: to help businesses navigate industry disruption, stay ahead of regulatory changes and leverage technology for operational efficiency and growth. Our consulting practice has established a firm reputation for highly effective delivery. Our specialist actuaries, risk managers, project and programme managers are renowned for their specialist expertise. We offer consulting services, ranging from large scale, multi-disciplined transformation programmes to specialist secondments on an individual basis., The role holder will be responsible for:

• Work in a fast-paced startup-style environment, contribute to delivery of front-end components for AI-enabled prototypes and product development to support client conversations and client pitches.
• Share expertise in infrastructure engineering domain covering CI/ CD pipelines for AI deployments, automated resource provisioning and defining/ implementing cost optimisation techniques.
• Build constructive working relationships across Intelligence Areas and broader XPS teams, sharing your expertise in AI application deployment across platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Execute projects to meet member firm's quality standards within a commercial context, ensuring excellence in deliverables.
• Communicate risks and issues early to leadership, ensuring proactive management and resolution.
• Contribute to innovative, repeatable solutions that enhance business performance and differentiate XPS from competitors, utilising your understanding of Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Agentic Orchestration, and Evaluation Frameworks.
• Leverage familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI, Gemini, and Claude, including voice-enabled and multimodal capabilities, to drive project success., Any employment offer made will be conditional upon you satisfying DBS Disclosure checks, Employment or educational references, Satisfactory credit checks and eligibility to work in the UK before an offer can be made. XPS Group is not able to provide sponsorship to employees.

• 8+ years of experience in infrastructure engineering, including a minimum of 2+ years in building AI-driven applications deployed across cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proficiency in Terraform - with experience in resource provisioning along with cost optimisation techniques.
• Knowledge of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), Agentic Orchestration, and various Evaluation Frameworks.
• Familiarity with Large Language Models (LLMs), such as OpenAI, Gemini, and Claude, including capabilities with voice-enabled and multimodal models.
• Ability to effectively contribute as a full-time participant, thriving under ambitious timelines in dynamic environments.

Enjoy a competitive salary, annual discretionary bonus, and 25 days' holiday with buy/sell flexibility. Benefits include pension matching, healthcare plans, life assurance, and retailer discounts. We support our team with a flexible benefits scheme, employee assistance, and digital GP service. Participating in volunteering events is encouraged with paid volunteer days available. Referral bonuses are offered for introducing suitable candidates to XPS., We want our people to know they matter so we offer a range of perks and benefits:

• Holiday entitlement
• Pension
• Life assurance
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• SAYE scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Sight tests
• Employee assistance programme
• Opportunities for hybrid working
• Generous annual flex allowance
• My XPS, My Benefits - flexible benefits you choose to suit you personally, including the option to buy additional holiday, bikes for work, private health care, travel insurance and dental insurance
• XPS Rewards - designed to offer you access to a wide range of discounts, saving you money on your shopping

Employee networks

Our seven Employee networks - XPS Women's Network, XPS LGBTQ+ Network, XPS Menopause Network, XPS Disability Network XPS Multicultural Network, Planet network and Mental health allies network - play an important role in our culture.

Some of them lead our inclusion and diversity programme of events, campaigns and workshops, such as celebrating International Women's and Men's Days, Pride Month and Black History Month, our Be Yourself at Work campaign and our workshops on LGBTQ+ Allyship, the importance of self-promotion for women's careers, menopause awareness and confidence when speaking up.

XPS Group is a prominent and growing UK consultancy and administration firm within the pensions and insurance sectors. As a FTSE 250 company with over 2000 employees, we leverage expertise alongside advanced technology to serve over 1,400 pension schemes and their sponsors. Our goal is to foster a workplace where diverse talents thrive., We are a forward-looking, ambitious business. We are a leading independent pensions consulting and administration services firm and want to be the best provider of services to the UK pensions market. XPS combines expertise, insight and technology to address the needs of over 1,500+ pension schemes and their sponsoring employers on an ongoing and project basis. We undertake pensions administration for over one million members and provide advisory services to schemes and corporate sponsors in respect of schemes of all sizes, including 81+ with assets over £1bn. Getting it right for our clients and our people In 2023 XPS was awarded Third-Party Administrator of the Year and Fiduciary Evaluator of the Year at the UK Pensions Awards. For our business culture in 2023 we were awarded Diversity and Inclusion Excellence Award at the UK Pension Awards and was also listed in The Sunday Times's Best Places to Work 2023 (Big Company) for the first time. Being a responsible business has always been important to us. Doing the right thing is at the core of our strategy and how we operate across the business. So much so, it is embedded within our corporate purpose, mission, vision and values. As well as advancing sustainability across our business, we are working with our clients, communities, suppliers and colleagues to do the right thing., XPS is a fast-moving, exciting business, with an incredible team of people achieving a wide variety of different things, in all kinds of different roles. But wherever you are and whatever you're doing, it's the way you do it that makes you XPS. This is what makes our Corporate Values so important. They're at the heart of everything we do and define our interactions with everyone, not just colleagues, but clients, suppliers and the communities and environment in which we operate. They act as our guiding light