Aviva

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Lead

Salary: National circa £65,000 / London circa £75,000

Are you passionate about infrastructure automation and engineering? Do you have experience of building reliable scalable systems, or previous knowledge of Service Reliability Engineering? Do you have experience working hands-on with automation approaches and tools in an infrastructure engineering or operations capacity? Do you want to be deeply involved in exciting strategic automation and want to contribute to our cloud transformation for Aviva?

We are looking for passionate Cloud engineering professional to join our diverse and growing team to shape and actively contribute to the future of Cloud Service Desk and Service Reliability engineering teams in Aviva.

A bit about the job:

• Manage BAU tasks to support Cloud Hosting Platform Services in AWS and Microsoft Azure, including incident and problem management, patching, rebuilding, recoverability, and ensuring security compliance
• Oversee performance of the sourcing partner, taking action to improve service delivery for end consumers
• Drive continuous improvements across the Cloud Platform services by identifying, raising, and managing enhancement opportunities
• Lead automation of recurring operational tasks to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention
• Manage the operational acceptance of new services transitioned from Platform Engineering and Cloud Enablement teams into BAU, and provide service performance insights and recommendations through regular management information

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Valid qualifications in AWS and/or Azure Fundamentals (at minimum)
• Extensive experience with cloud platform hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Microsoft Azure
• Extensive experience of scripting languages such as Ansible, Python or Ruby.
• Experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins and the use of tools for deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting of system resources
• Experience of ITIL, specifically incident and problem management

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.

• Starting salary circa £65,000 for National based or circa £75,000 for London based (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

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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 flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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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.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Harjot Kaur a call on 07353138456 or send an email to harjot.kaur@aviva.com