Lead AWS Cloud Engineer: Scale a Modern Cloud Platform

Aviva; Bristol; On-site; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity 12%

Pension scheme

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Aviva‑funded Private Medical Benefit

Discount on Aviva products

Matching Share Plan

Save As You Earn

Parental and carer’s leave

Flexible benefits

Cycle to work

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing tools

Job summary

Aviva is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer to join its Cloud Platform Engineering team. The role covers hands‑on AWS work, defining architecture and tooling, and mentoring engineers to raise delivery quality across multiple locations in the UK.

Based in Norwich, York, Bristol or Eastleigh, you’ll shape scalable, cloud‑native solutions, drive best practices, and collaborate with internal customer teams to deliver high‑impact projects on our evolving platform.

Qualifications

• 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
• 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.
• A strong security mindset, applying secure-by-default principles in how you design and build

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 Lead AWS Engineer to join a collaborative engineering team where great ideas matter, and the best ones shine.

Skills

AWS cloud engineering

Lead via influence

Security mindset

Explain complex ideas

Strategic thinking

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Job description

Aviva is seeking a Lead Cloud Engineer to join its Cloud Platform Engineering team. The role covers hands‑on AWS work, defining architecture and tooling, and mentoring engineers to raise delivery quality across multiple locations in the UK.

Based in Norwich, York, Bristol or Eastleigh, you’ll shape scalable, cloud‑native solutions, drive best practices, and collaborate with internal customer teams to deliver high‑impact projects on our evolving platform.