Lead platform engineer

Lead Platform Engineer

Salary circa £65,000

Are you someone who enjoys leading technical teams while still staying close to the detail? Do you love building resilient platforms that keep critical services running smoothly? This role would suit an experienced platform or infrastructure engineer who’s ready for a step into people leadership, or an existing engineering manager who enjoys balancing operational stability, continuous improvement, and team development in a fast‑moving, 24/7 environment.

A bit about the job

This role exists to lead and support a team of platform engineers responsible for the stability, performance, and resilience of critical production systems at Aviva. You’ll be part of a technology team that underpins key customer and business services, ensuring systems are secure, reliable, and ready to scale. You’ll be accountable for technical delivery, incident management, and operational excellence, while creating an environment where engineers can do their best work. Your work will directly help Aviva provide dependable services to millions of customers

Skills and experience we’re looking for

• Strong people management and leadership experience, including line management of platform engineers, setting clear objectives and priorities, coaching and developing individuals, managing performance, and fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high‑performing team culture while balancing delivery and operational outcomes
• Strong hands-on technical background, including AWS, CI/CD pipelines (such as Jenkins), SQL Server, and modern platform environments, along with experience working in high availability, 24/7 or high‑transaction environments and a solid understanding of APIs and networking basics
• Collaborate with third‑party development and delivery partners to support end‑to‑end shipping of code, ensuring quality standards are met and coordinating successful placement of releases onto Aviva‑managed infrastructure
• Controls & Testing: Support controls assessments, review penetration test results, and help close out audit issues
• Proven ability to oversee incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement in live production systems, supported by clear and confident communication skills and the ability to work effectively with technical teams, business partners, and third‑party suppliers 

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 £65,000 based (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 interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

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 07353138456 or send an email to harjot.kaur@aviva.com