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# Principal Cloud Engineer

- **Company:** Aviva plc
- **Location:** Norwich, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £73,894.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Ansible, Agentic-AI, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform
- **Published:** October 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5918530051

## About the Role

* Deep expertise across AWS cloud engineering, utilising IaC tools such as Terraform and Ansible to deliver through CI/CD.
 * The standing to guide other engineers through complex deliveries, leading through influence and example, with a strong security mindset, applying secure-by-default principles in how you design and build.
 * An understanding for where new technology earns its place, helping the team adopt tools like AI, leading the way in defining ways of working, best practices and standards.
 * The ability to explain complex technical information and concepts to someone at any level in the business.
 * Experience with using Spec-Driven development techniques to leverage AI tooling, and an understanding of how to apply Agentic development practices to your workflows.