Network Delivery Manager

Network Delivery Manager 

Location: Norwich or Bristol

Salary: circa £70k

This is a great job for someone who enjoys solving complex network challenges and finding smarter ways of working. You might be an experienced Network Engineer who is ready to broaden your impact and take the next step into delivery leadership and project management.

Do you enjoy working with Cisco or Juniper technologies across LAN, WAN, Wireless and network security? Do you get energy from collaborating with different teams, sharing your expertise, and helping to improve the way things are done? If so, we'd love to hear from you.

A bit about the job

As a Network Delivery Manager, you'll help keep Aviva connected by delivering secure, reliable, and modern network services across our business. You'll join a collaborative team responsible for designing, delivering, and improving enterprise network solutions across cloud and hosted environments.

You'll lead network projects that support our technology roadmap and help drive innovation through automation and continuous improvement. You'll make sure network changes are delivered to a high standard while supporting incident and problem investigations when needed.

Your work will help ensure colleagues and customers benefit from resilient, high-performing network services.

Key Skills and experience

• Strong technical expertise in enterprise networking, with a particular focus on LAN switching, routing, and wireless network technologies.
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous professional development, with relevant certifications such as Cisco CCNP, Juniper JNCIP, and project management qualifications including Prince2, PMP, or Agile/Scrum.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate, influence, and build effective relationships across all levels of an organisation and with third-party partners.
• Proven ability to take ownership of delivery, coordinating activities across multiple teams and suppliers to achieve successful business outcomes.
• Experienced in producing high-quality technical documentation and process guidance, enabling knowledge sharing, consistency of delivery, and the effective use of automation to improve operational efficiency.

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 £70k (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

• Bonus opportunity 10% – actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s

• Generous pension scheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14% 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 

Take a look to learn more.  Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be. 

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 at least 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues. 

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here 

We'd love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, or if you have any queries in relation to the vacancy, please give Chloe Nettley a call on 07795207964 or send an email to chloe.nettley@aviva.com