Cyber Security and DevOps Specialist

This is a great job for someone who is passionate about Cyber Security and DevOps and eager to make a significant impact in a dynamic team! You will be joining our dedicated Digital Internet Gateway (DIG) team and help in delivering its cloud-centric portfolio. Are you someone who is enthusiastic about leading and improving digital platforms? Loves developing technical solutions using modern cloud technologies and agile principles and excited to work with the DIG, Akamai, and SFG platforms? This role might suit an individual excited to lead and improve digital capabilities.

A bit about the job:

This role is crucial for enhancing and maintaining our Digital Internet Gateway (DIG) and Akamai platforms, ensuring they meet the highest standards of performance and security. You will join a dynamic team dedicated to developing innovative technical solutions and driving service improvements. Your responsibilities will include leading and supporting team members, engineering platform improvements, and championing best practices in coding and engineering. You will be accountable for delivering high-quality technical solutions, documenting designs, and proposing innovative approaches to address challenges.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience with cyber security and Federation protocols (like OAuth2, OIDC, SAML) and WAF setup. Akamai experience is a plus, as is working with multi-tenant platforms (AWS, Azure, on-premises).
• Understanding of Customer Identity and Access Management (inbound and outbound) and related tools.
• Knowledge of IBM Security stack (ISAM, ISVA, LDAP) or Open Source (Squid) is beneficial, as well as Application Server technologies like JBoss EAP and Gateway Security concepts (Networking, CDNs, Firewalls, Load Balancers, VPC Peering, NACLs, Security groups).
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (preferably Terraform, Packer, Puppet, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines (preferably Jenkins and/or Azure DevOps).
• Willingness to continuously learn new tools and technologies, and manage change, problems, and incidents.
• Strong team leadership skills, including managing technical teams and communicating effectively up and down the leadership chain.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.

What you’ll get for this role:

• Salary Circa National £60000 London Circa £65K 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.

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.

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 Kirthi a call on 02045922145 or send an email.