Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Cloud Engineer – Salary of Circa £60,000 (National) or £80,000 (London)  

Location: Norwich/London/Bristol 

This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our growing Cloud Platform Engineering team. Are you someone who can work confidently across Cloud technologies and would like to expand your experience, working within a cutting-edge environment? 

Working within a Financial Services organisation, for the benefit of millions of customers, this role will give you the opportunity to learn and work across a large, dynamic cloud platform. Help us to scale, be more efficient and better serve our customers. 

A bit about the role: 

The Senior Cloud Engineer is an individual contributor who provides technical guidance and expertise for junior team members whilst delivering important and complex projects. You will analyse and identify recommendations for improvements that can be implemented in line with Aviva’s technology priorities. This role will empower you to own the work you deliver, collaborating with our internal customer engineering teams and engineering leaders to create value for them and Aviva’s customers. 

You should be confident with AWS or Azure Cloud Engineering processes, implementing best practice using Infrastructure as Code, and setting the standard for how we should be developing in the cloud. 

Our tech stack includes AWS, Azure, Containers, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Python, Lambda. 

Skills and experience we’re looking for: 

• Proficient in administering an AWS or Azure cloud platform, utilising Terraform, Python and Jenkins. 

• Be a first-class communicator, encouraging collaboration across teams spanning multiple locations and disciplines 

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills with the ability to articulate complex technical problems to technical and non-technical audiences 

• A track record of continuously improving and developing services to make them more efficient and valuable for our end users 

• Being a good leader – working with our more junior engineers to set examples, and best practice standards to support them in the work they do and their future careers 

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 £60,000 (National), £80,000 (London) (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 Martyn Biddulph a call on 07826 556 965 or send an email to martyn.biddulph@aviva.com.