Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer 

Salary: Circa £70,000

Locations: Norwich/Bristol

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the development and optimisation of our AI/ML infrastructure platforms, enabling scalable, secure, and data-driven solutions across the organisation. You will play a critical role in building and maintaining cloud-based platforms that support advanced analytics, underwriting, pricing, and fraud detection capabilities. Working across AWS and Azure, you will ensure high performance, reliability, and governance of our strategic AI/ML toolsets.

This role will also drive DevOps maturity, standardisation, and automation across engineering practices. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape technical roadmaps and support enterprise-wide data and AI strategy.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Azure cloud platforms, including designing and managing scalable infrastructure
• Deep understanding of DevOps, MLOps, and AIOps practices, with a focus on automation and continuous improvement
• Proven experience building and optimising CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps and Jenkins
• Expertise in containerisation and serverless technologies (e.g., Kubernetes/EKS, AWS Lambda)
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code and scripting (Terraform, Ansible, Python, YAML, JSON, PowerShell)

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 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 +44 7353 138456 or send an email to harjot.kaur@aviva.com