Lead Cloud Engineer

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

Lead Cloud Engineer

Location: Norwich, York, Bristol or Eastleigh

Salary: Circa £80k

This is an excellent opportunity to join our growing Cloud Platform Engineering team at its technical heart. 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?

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.

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 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
• 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

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.

• Startingsalary Circa £80k (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity 12% – actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s
• Generous pensionscheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14% in.
• 29 daysholidayplus bank holidays,and you can choosetobuyorsell up to 5days
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefitto help you get expert support when you need it
• Make your money go further -Up to 40%discountonAviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through ourMatching Share Planand share in the success of Aviva with ourSave As You Earnscheme
• Brilliantlysupportive policiesincluding parentalandcarer’s leave
• Flexible benefitsto suit you, includingsustainability optionssuch as cycle to work
• Make a difference,be part of ourAviva Communitiesand useyour3paid volunteering daysto help others
• We take yourwellbeingseriously withlots of support and tools

Aviva is for everyone:

We’reinclusive andwelcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if youdon’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 –spendingatleast50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.