DevOps Team Lead

Lead DevOps Engineer – Bristol – Salary circa £50,000

We are seeking a senior DevOps  engineer our team, responsible for developing and supporting infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native deployments within a Gen 2 AWS environment. This role will play a key part in enabling scalable, cost-effective, and secure infrastructure solutions, while also mentoring software engineers in DevOps practices.

This role resides in the Finance Technology Platform, which supports the movement of data, internal and external to Aviva, to a central repository for operational and analytical business functions to access and use for downstream regulatory reporting.  

We are constantly modernising our complex Finance estate and play an important part in all Aviva teams achieving strategic targets, whilst supporting business self-service where possible.   

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Proven experience in infrastructure configuration and automation within AWS environments.
• Strong proficiency in AWS CDK, Terraform, and CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps (ADO.NET).
• Experience with MWAA and other AWS-native services.
• Solid understanding of cloud cost monitoring and optimization strategies.
• Ability to mentor and train software engineers in DevOps practices.

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.

• Starting salary circa £50,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity – 8% 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
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
• 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 Martyn Biddulph a call on 07721 572 935 or send an email to martyn.biddulph@aviva.com.