GenAI Platform SRE Lead: Reliability, Automation & Scale

Aviva plc; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 74,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity

Generous pension up to 14%

29 days holiday + bank holidays (buy/s

save 5 days

Discounts on Aviva products

Matching Share Plan

Save As You Earn

Volunteering days

Job summary

Aviva is seeking an experienced GenAI Platform Operations Lead to ensure reliability, security and scalability of the Oasis Platform. You will lead a high-performing team at the intersection of Operations and Platform Engineering, driving automation, observability, and DevOps practices to improve platform resilience at scale.

The role requires senior expertise in cloud platforms, Kubernetes, SRE principles and hands-on leadership.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on cloud-native platform experience in large-scale environments.
• Strong focus on reliability, resilience, observability, and incident management.
• Proficient with CI/CD pipelines, IaC, GitOps, and automation to reduce manual toil.

Responsibilities

• Drive platform reliability, security, and operational excellence.
• Mentor and lead Operations Engineers and SREs; own major incidents.
• Champion automation and AI-powered ops for scalability and efficiency.

Skills

Cloud & Kubernetes Expertise

SRE & Observability

DevOps & Automation

Technical Leadership

AI-powered operations

Tools

AWS

EKS

ECS

Terraform

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

GitOps

Kubernetes

Job description

Aviva is seeking an experienced GenAI Platform Operations Lead to ensure reliability, security and scalability of the Oasis Platform. You will lead a high-performing team at the intersection of Operations and Platform Engineering, driving automation, observability, and DevOps practices to improve platform resilience at scale.

The role requires senior expertise in cloud platforms, Kubernetes, SRE principles and hands-on leadership.