Senior DevOps Engineer

Job description

Senior DevOps Engineer - National Salary Circa £55,000, London Salary Circa £65,000.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join our growing Cloud team. Are you someone who can work confidently across Cloud technologies and want to further enhance your career?

A bit about the job:

Our Hosting Engineering team are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our tech driven team. An ideal candidate should want to work in a close nit, motivated and growing team. You should value quality work and continuous improvement. We are looking for engineers who can think for themselves and who want to take ownership of the services that they work on and manage. We aim to celebrate success and take every opportunity to help our engineers grow both in their role and in the business.

In your role, you will identify, define, and implement service improvements across our Cloud Platform, whilst promoting our Engineering Practice, proposing innovative solutions or alternative approaches to challenging technical issues.

You should be someone who is comfortable using Windows and Linux and has experience working in a cloud environment, or a large on-prem deployment. We put Infrastructure as Code first and any experience in Terraform, Ansible or Python is desirable but not essential.

Aviva operates a "smart working" policy meaning that we spend approximately half of our time working in an office, including being added to a callout rota that would be paid in line with Aviva's standby/call out rates. This role is based in Norwich, Eastleigh, Perth, York, or London.

Skills and experience we're looking for:

• Proficient in either AWS or Azure technologies and running a platform at scale.
• Someone who is a first-class communicator and values clear communication.
• Be able to articulate complex technical problems and has strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Is keen to deliver first-class engineering discipline with the ability to translate business problems into technical solutions.
• Has knowledge of Application Support and Development processes.

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.

• National Salary Circa £55,000, London Salary Circa £65,000 (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 people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you're in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working 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 Abigail Aitken a call on +44 7774 789975 or send an email to [email protected]