Senior Cloud Engineer
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Job description
This role sits within Aviva's Cloud Engineering team, supporting platform teams across the organisation to modernise their estate through containerised and serverless solutions. You'll lead the design and development of reusable patterns, provide expert consultancy during migrations, and ensure secure, resilient, and cost-effective solutions. You'll also act as a technical mentor and collaborate across teams to align with strategic initiatives like security and observability.
Requirements
This is a great job for someone who thrives on solving complex technical challenges and enjoys enabling others through scalable, secure, and modern cloud-native solutions. If you're passionate about AWS technologies, love mentoring others, and want to make a real impact across a large organisation, this could be the perfect next step.
This role might suit someone who has hands-on experience with AWS ECS, EKS, and serverless technologies, and is excited to lead the development of reusable patterns and constructs. Whether you're an experienced engineer ready to take on more strategic responsibilities, or someone who's previously supported large-scale Kubernetes implementations and wants to broaden your influence, we'd love to hear from you., * Proven hands-on experience building and supporting AWS EKS/ECS clusters, and serverless technologies
- Strong knowledge of Helm, GitOps (FluxCD/ArgoCD), and infrastructure as code (Terraform, AWS CDK - Python)
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or Jenkins
- Solid scripting skills (Python, Bash) and a commitment to automation and secure coding practices
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively, with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement
Benefits & conditions
- Salary National Circa £70,000 and London £95,000 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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