Deployment Engineer

Job description

Deployment Engineer - Salary Circa £45,000 - £55,000
We have an exciting opportunity for a Run Team Engineer who wants to multi-skill across disciplines: database administration, cloud engineering, Solutions architect, change oversight, monitoring and automation. Perhaps you are established in one of these areas who would like to cross skill in other areas.

Do you enjoy investigating Improving/tuning existing solutions, as well as exploring new technologies/patterns?

Do you also have a punctilious attention to detail and is Rule-orientated and conscientious?

A bit about the job:
You would be part of an established application team within the Life Performance, Governance and Reporting function. We have five core responsibilities: solution design oversight, change implementation, regular maintenance, automation, incident management. You would be coming in at the start of a new phase for the team, where we are looking to expand our scope and will working to bring our solutions in line our best practices and modernise, eg using more cloud native technologies.

The team acts as an architecture and implementation centre; providing advice on automation and solution design for our own platforms, but also good practices across a range of IT applications.

A requirement for this role is working on deployments outside of hours, on a scheduled basis. Aviva operates a “smart working” policy meaning that we spend approximately half of our time working in an office, and this role is based in Sheffield or York.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

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A self-starter, interested to learn perhaps you're the type of person with a Home Lab and have a strong interest in cloud and web technologies, databases, automation and optimisation.

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Someone who has a commercial understanding of priority and can organise their time effectively alongside.

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Someone who can respond to production incidents with a calm and risk-based approach.

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Experience with database, automation, or system administration and working with an IT change framework.

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Excellent written and verbal communication; able to communicate technical ideas across a wide audience with confidence.

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.

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Salary Circa £45,000 - £55,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)

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Bonus opportunity -10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.

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Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.

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29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days

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Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products , and other retailer discounts

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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

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Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave

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Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work

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Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others

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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 people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way.  So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Abigail Aitken a call on +44 7774 789975 or send an email to abigail.aitken@aviva.com