Principal Cloud Engineer

Principle Cloud Engineer

Location: Bristol, York, Norwich or Eastleigh

Salary: Circa £85k

Cloud isn't just where we run things at Aviva, it's how we move faster, build smarter, and deliver for millions of customers. We're looking for a Principle Cloud Engineer to join a collaborative engineering team where great ideas matter, and the best ones shine.

Are you someone who works confidently across AWS and wants to shape how a cutting-edge platform is built, rather than just work within it? This is an excellent opportunity to join our growing Cloud Platform Engineering team at its technical heart.

Working in a market leading Financial Services organisation, for the benefit of millions of customers, this role puts you at the centre of a large, dynamic cloud platform. Help us scale it, sharpen it, and serve our customers better, helping to grow and lead the next generation of talent as we do it.

A bit about the role:

This is a hands-on role for someone who leads through expertise. You'll help shape and deliver complex, high-impact pieces of work from start to finish, and set standards for how we engineer on AWS, helping to define architecture, tooling and best practice to shape the platform for years to come, not just for this sprint. You'll support engineers through key deliveries, lending your judgement where it counts and lifting the bar for everyone around you.

You’ll work shoulder to shoulder with engineering leaders and our internal customer teams, turning ambitious ideas into resilient, well-architected reality. You'll spot the improvements that matter, line them up against Aviva's technology priorities, and help drive them through to delivery.

We favour cloud-native services, and treat Infrastructure as Code as the rule, not the exception.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• 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.

Whatyou’llget 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 promiseisby investing in you.

We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting
  salary Circa £85k (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity 12% – actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva's
• Generous pension
  scheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14% in.
• 29 days
  holiday
  plus bank holidays,and you can choosetobuyorsell up to 5days
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit
  to help you get expert support when you need it
• 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 parentalandcarer'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 useyour3
  paid volunteering daysto help others
• We take your
  wellbeing
  seriously withlots 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
-spendingatleast
50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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