CI/CD Technical Delivery Lead

Aviva Direct Ireland Limited; Norwich; Hybrid; GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company is searching for a CI/CD Technical Delivery Lead to shape modern engineering practices and drive efficient software delivery. This role requires strong experience with DevOps tools like Git and Azure DevOps, along with excellent communication skills to collaborate with teams. You'll lead the optimization of tools and infrastructure, ensuring robust CI/CD capabilities. The position offers a competitive salary of circa £60,000, a 10% bonus opportunity, and generous benefits including a pension scheme and holiday allowance.

Benefits

Bonus opportunity up to 10%

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Generous pension scheme

Up to 40% discount on Aviva products

£1,200 of free Aviva shares per year

Qualifications

• Strong experience with software development and DevOps tools.
• Proficiency with relevant technologies including Terraform, YAML, Python, Groovy, and Bash.
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) principles and agile methods.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Refine and enhance tools for secure software delivery.
• Lead design and development of solutions within Azure DevOps.
• Collaborate with engineers to understand needs and drive improvements.

Skills

Git

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub

Terraform

Python

Groovy

Bash

Tools

SonarQube

Artifactory

Xray

Container technologies

Job description

Overview

CI/CD Technical Delivery Lead

Salary: circa £60,000

Locations: Norwich/ Birmingham/ Bristol/ Perth/ York

This is a great job for someone who enjoys shaping modern engineering practices and enabling others to deliver great software.

Are you someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, loves solving complex technical challenges, and gets energy from improving tools that developers use every day? This role would suit an experienced technical professional who is confident leading delivery, excited by automation, and motivated to elevate developer experience. Whether you’ve previously worked in DevOps, platform engineering, or technical leadership, you’ll bring a passion for continuous improvement and modern delivery practices.

A bit about the job:

As a Technical Delivery Lead, you’ll play a key role in refining and enhancing the tools and platforms that underpin secure and efficient software delivery across Aviva. You’ll lead the design, development, and optimisation of solutions within Azure DevOps (ADO), Jenkins, and related tooling to support our development community. Working within our Developer Applications team, you’ll ensure our CI/CD capabilities are robust, scalable, and future-ready. You’ll collaborate with engineers and partners across the business to understand needs, drive improvements, and deliver reliable, high-quality solutions.

Skills and experience we’re looking for

• Strong experience with software development and DevOps tools such as Git, Azure DevOps (essential), Jenkins, GitHub (preferred), Artifactory, Xray, SonarQube, container technologies, and cloud platforms.
• Proficiency with relevant technologies including Terraform, YAML, Python, Groovy, and Bash.
• Solid understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) principles and agile methods.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to engage a wide range of internal teams and partners.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the capability to investigate and resolve complex technical issues.

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.

• 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
• 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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