Lead DevOps Engineer | Bristol, UK

Lead DevOps Engineer

Salary Circa £60,000

Locations Bristol and Norwich

Are you ready to join us in our quest to drive innovation and harness the power of data and AI across Aviva? Quantum is Aviva's Global Data Community, with us, you will have access to data for over 19 million customers, allowing you to create truly outstanding products and deliver enhanced experiences for our customers.

A bit about the job:

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Lead DevOps Engineer to join our growing and dynamic Data Science & AI platform team. The role will play a key technical leadership role in building and advancing our Data Science and AI technology stack, leveraging modern-day cloud services, and driving CI/CD & automation practices.

As a Lead AIOps Engineer, you will be responsible for shaping our technical roadmaps across our toolset, defining our technical governance and standards, and will play an important role in wider collaboration with technology platforms across the business. You will lead a technical team of engineers to support the delivery of good customer outcomes through all activities and deliverables, enabling us to act in good faith towards customers, avoid causing foreseeable harm, and enable and support our customers to pursue their financial objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of technical engineers, defining technical roadmaps and standards across the team, enhancing our maturity and ensuring we keep pace with the ever-evolving technology landscape.
• Collaborate with a multitude of teams across the business, with a key focus on alignment to enterprise architecture for our Data Science & AI capabilities.
• Responsible for the implementation and management of scalable, modern-day infrastructure across our AWS and Azure cloud platforms supporting our Data Science and AI toolset.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment processes, with CI/CD principles a strong focus area.
• Support and enhance our CI/CD pipelines to streamline SDLC and improve our overall MLOps & AIOps capabilities.
• Monitor system performance and deliver proactive maintenance improvements.
• Ensure security and compliance of our infrastructure and solutions, including a focus on vulnerability management & maintenance.

Skills and Experience:

• Strong experience working with AWS and Azure Infrastructure Services.
• Proven understanding in containerization and serverless computing services and practices (examples such as AWS EKS and Lambda).
• A solid understanding of DevOps, AIOps, and MLOps principles and concepts.
• Experience in delivering and managing CI/CD pipelines leveraging tools such as Azure DevOps and Jenkins.
• Experience in scripting languages such as JSON, Yaml, Python, Terraform, Ansible, and PowerShell.

What You'll Get for This Role:

• Salary:Circa £60,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications).
• Bonus opportunity - 10% of annual salary. Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva's.
• Generouspensionscheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 daysholidayplus 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 ourMatching Share Planand share in the success of Aviva with ourSave As You Earnscheme.
• Brilliantlysupportive policiesincluding parental and carer's leave.
• Flexible benefitsto suit you, includingsustainability optionssuch as cycle to work.
• Make a difference, be part of ourAviva Communitiesand use your 3paid volunteering days to help others.
• We take yourwellbeingseriously 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 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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