Finance Cloud Infrastructure Manager

Finance Cloud Infrastructure Manager Location: Bristol Salary: Circa £75k Are you someone who enjoys leading teams and building cloud platforms that make a real impact? A bit about the job You’ll lead the Cloud Design, DevOps and Infrastructure team within the Group Functions Finance Data Platform in Aviva, owning the delivery and future development of the AWS Gen2 cloud platform and providing technical and delivery leadership across multiple projects. You’ll plan and track roadmaps to deliver infrastructure and tooling, driving continuous improvement through automation, efficient CI/CD pipelines and cost optimisation.

You’ll also plan and support the technical delivery of infrastructure migrations, upgrades and proof‑of‑concept work, including technical debt initiatives. Alongside this, you’ll manage infrastructure costs and sustainability measures, contributing to budgeting, forecasting and cost recovery. You’ll shape how we deliver scalable, secure and efficient infrastructure, helping teams work faster and smarter, playing a key role in improving processes, controls and automation across the platform and being accountable for delivering reliable data infrastructure, supporting change projects, and building a high‑performing team.

Skills and experience we’re looking for Experience leading and supporting technical or engineering teams, including setting priorities, managing workload and removing delivery blockers. Proven ability to plan and deliver infrastructure or platform roadmaps, with a focus on automation, CI/CD and continuous improvement using tools such as Azure DevOps and Jenkins, CDK, Terraform, Python, JSON. Experience managing technical delivery of infrastructure work, including migrations, upgrades and proof‑of‑concept initiatives.

Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS), DevOps and infrastructure‑as‑code, designing and managing scalable serverless infrastructure with experience using technologies such as AWS Glue, Lambda, MWAA, Kubernetes/EKS. Ability to manage infrastructure performance, including cost optimisation, compliance, security, patching and stakeholder collaboration across teams. What you’ll get for this role Starting salary circa £75k (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications).

Bonus opportunity 10% – actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s. Generous pension scheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14% in. 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days. Aviva‑funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it.

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.

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Even if you don’t tick every box, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares. #J-18808-Ljbffr