Lead DevOps Engineer, Aviva
£50-70k
+ Bonus opportunity 10% of annual salary
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Insurance, wealth and retirement business
Open for applications
Insurance, wealth and retirement business
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£50-70k
+ Bonus opportunity 10% of annual salary
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
With you today, for a better tomorrow. Aviva exist to be with people when it really matters, throughout their lives.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience in a DevOps or cyber security operations role within an enterprise environment. Experience with automated testing tools and methodologies within Continuous Integration - Continuous Deployment frameworks
- Expertise in DevOps technologies such as Infrastructure as code, automation, Vault, Version Control and a proficiency in scripting languages
- Experience with containerization technologies
- Ability to produce High Level Designs (HLD), Low Level Designs (LLD) cloud architecture designs as well as supporting documentation
- Demonstrable proficiency in a high-level programming language and practical experience integrating applications using web service calls and API’s (REST, SOAP, etc)
What the job involves
- This role forms part of the Security Engineering Team; working within the wider Group CISO (Chief Information Security Office) business unit
- As the Lead DevOps Engineer, your primary focus is to define and run an effective DevOps lifecycle by maintaining appropriate tools, expertise, and processes to develop enhancements to Aviva’s security stack
- You will be responsible for leading a team of DevOps engineers to streamline the software development process, improve system reliability, and enhance overall operational efficiency
- You will be expected to deliver an ambitious and highly diverse pipeline of work across multiple SAAS and cloud environments, whilst maturing the existing service and building out and developing the team
- Lead and mentor a multiskilled team of DevOps engineers developing a strong culture of technical excellence and ensure core DevOps methodologies are implemented to highest standard
- Develop the technical skillset of the team and foster an environment that promotes self-development
- Collaborate with software developers, system administrators, and other stakeholders to design and implement automated deployment pipelines
- Identify and develop opportunities to grow the DevOps function into new business areas from where to provide added value. Proactively manage environment costs to remain in budget and identify opportunities to reduce cost
- Maintain the effective operation of multiple CI/CD pipelines which underpin core security services and support continuous delivery approach including tooling and automated testing and deployments
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Our take
With 18 million international customers, Aviva is the largest provider of insurance and leading life and pension funds in the UK. With a history that dates back to the founding of Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society in 1696, Aviva’s current form is thanks to a merger between Norwich Union and CGU plc in the year 2000.
Over the noughties, Aviva grew its market out to Europe and established a high-profile foothold in America thanks to the most expensive advertising campaign of the time that included celebrities Alice Cooper and Bruce Willis. Into the 2010s, the insurance broker was forced to restructure and close a large number of its non-core businesses in a bid to increase its shareholder returns and streamline its focus. In 2012 it sold its US wing to Athene Holding to further this goal.
Now stripped back after sell-offs of subsidiaries in Indonesia, Italy, and many more countries, Aviva is refocusing on pensions. In the wake of a Pensions Dashboard Programme delay in the UK, Aviva is in the running to take over the programme thanks to its pre-existing private systems. This exemplifies Aviva’s renewed focus on the fintech sector, all whilst playing national analyst during the cost of living crisis thanks to its annual Age of Ambiguity study.
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Company values
- Care
- Commitment
- Community
- Confidence
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
Amanda Blanc
(CEO, not founder)Currently Group Board Non-Executive Director at BP. Previously Chairman of the Welsh Rugby Union, Senior Advisor at Trov, CEO at Zurich Insurance Company.
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