Senior DevOps Engineer

Aviva; England; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 77,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary

Generous pension scheme

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Up to 40% discount on Aviva products

Free Aviva shares through our Matching Share Plan

Paid volunteering days

Flexible benefits including sustainability options

Job summary

Aviva is looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to lead development and optimisation of AI/ML infrastructure platforms. This role focuses on designing scalable cloud-based platforms across AWS and Azure, enhancing performance and reliability while driving standardisation and automation practices. Key qualifications include strong experience with DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, and containerisation. Benefits include a salary circa £70,000, a bonus opportunity, generous pension, and support for flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Azure cloud platforms.
• Deep understanding of DevOps, MLOps, and AIOps practices.
• Proven experience building and optimising CI/CD pipelines.
• Expertise in containerisation and serverless technologies.
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and optimisation of AI/ML infrastructure platforms.
• Drive DevOps maturity, standardisation, and automation.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on technical roadmaps.

Skills

AWS

Azure

DevOps practices

MLOps

AIOps

CI/CD pipelines

Containerisation

Infrastructure-as-code

Scripting

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Kubernetes/EKS

AWS Lambda

Terraform

Ansible

Python

YAML

JSON

PowerShell

Job description

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the development and optimisation of our AI/ML infrastructure platforms, enabling scalable, secure, and data-driven solutions across the organisation. You will play a critical role in building and maintaining cloud-based platforms that support advanced analytics, underwriting, pricing, and fraud detection capabilities. Working across AWS and Azure, you will ensure high performance, reliability, and governance of our strategic AI/ML toolsets.

This role will also drive DevOps maturity, standardisation, and automation across engineering practices. You will collaborate with cross‑functional teams to shape technical roadmaps and support enterprise‑wide data and AI strategy.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS and Azure cloud platforms, including designing and managing scalable infrastructure
• Deep understanding of DevOps, MLOps, and AIOps practices, with a focus on automation and continuous improvement
• Proven experience building and optimising CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps and Jenkins
• Expertise in containerisation and serverless technologies (e.g., Kubernetes/EKS, AWS Lambda)
• Proficiency in infrastructure‑as‑code and scripting (Terraform, Ansible, Python, YAML, JSON, PowerShell)

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 circa £70,000 (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

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 interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.