Cloud Engineer - Salary: £55,000 - £75,000

Do you like working with the latest technology and are interested in enhancing your tech abilities?

We are currently recruiting for a Cloud Engineer with a strong programming background, who loves to be hands-on and gets enjoyment out of solving complex problems. If you like to challenge the status quo and think differently, we would really like you to be a part of our exciting new team.

We are flexible with location, however traveling to our London office at least once per fortnight will be required.

A bit about the job:

Aviva Zero is a greenfield Personal Lines insurer set with the ambition to be the best in the UK market. It is currently scaling the use of its cutting edge serverless AWS stack to other use cases and business areas. It will combine the pace, focus, and test & learn mentality of a start-up with the expertise, and financial backing of Aviva.

As a Cloud Engineer, you will work with stakeholders, SME’s and the rest of the team, to deliver innovative and first-class AWS based services and infrastructure that enable great customer outcomes. You will use your experience to contribute improvements to operational standards and practices at a platform level, with a focus on cyber security, to ensure the quality and efficiency of delivery in an agile environment.

A requirement of this position is being on call in case of an emergency, on a scheduled basis.

Essential skills and experience we’re looking for :

• Well-versed in modern cloud native architectures using infrastructure as code in any of the following providers: AWS, Azure or Google cloud

• Familiar with the secure development lifecycle with agile DevSecOps practices such as CICD, cloud infrastructure security, identity and access management, and threat modelling.

• Provide support to analyse and respond to platform related incidents.

• Experience developing across a wide variety of programming languages with an appetite to learn and implement new languages such as ‘Go’.

• You appreciate the bigger picture, you are confident to contribute your ideas to the team on new technologies, solutions, and delivery approaches.

Additional Information

• Our Tech Stack – (experience with all of the below is not required)

• AWS: Lambda, ECS, Dynamo DB, S3, Event Bridge, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, Sagemaker, VPC, Security Hub, Control Tower and Cloud Trail

• Extra: CDK as infrastructure as Code, Snowflake, LaunchDarkly, Pagerduty

• Programming languages: we use Go heavily along with Python and Typescript

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: £55,000 - £75,000 (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 –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’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Alice Neal a call on 07393469953 or send an email to alice.neal@aviva.com.