DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

This role is a 9 month Secondment

Salary: circa £70,000

This is a great job for someone who

This is a great job for someone who thrives on solving complex technical challenges and enjoys enabling others through scalable, secure, and modern cloud-native solutions. If you’re passionate about AWS technologies, enjoy mentoring others, and want to make a real impact across a large organisation, this could be the perfect next step. 

The role suits someone with hands-on experience of AWS serverless technologies, who is excited to lead the development of reusable patterns and constructs. It may also suit an experienced engineer ready to take on more strategic responsibilities, or someone who has supported AWS serverless implementations and wants to broaden their influence. 

A bit about the job:

This role sits within Aviva’s Investments, Wealth & Retirement Cloud Engineering team, working closely with platform and product teams to modernise their technology estate using AWS serverless solutions. You’ll design and develop reusable cloud patterns, provide expert consultancy during migrations, and drive high standards for security, resilience, and cost‑effectiveness. You’ll also mentor engineers across the organisation and collaborate on shared capabilities such as observability, automation, and security.

You’ll lead the design and development of reusable cloud patterns, provide expert consultancy during platform and application migrations, ensure solutions are secure, resilient and cost‑effective, act as a technical mentor, and collaborate across teams on initiatives such as security and observability.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Hands-on experience with AWS ECS, and serverless technologies 

• Infrastructure as code using Terraform (and optionally, AWS CDK) 

• Extensive experience building CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub 

• Strong focus on automation and secure coding 

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively 

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Salary circa £70,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Harjot Kaur a call on +44 7353 138456 or send an email to harjot.kaur@aviva.com