Why join usJoining Sainsbury's Tech means becoming part of an inclusive and driven team that is passionate about creating innovative solutions. As an Engineering Manager, you will play a pivotal role in leading and coaching talented engineering teams, driving the delivery of impactful solutions that drive efficiency and enhance performance across the business. With a focus on continuous improvement, you will have the opportunity to shape a world-class engineering function and contribute to the development of cutting-edge processes and technologies. At Sainsbury's, we value collaboration, diversity, and inclusivity, and offer a supportive and inspiring environment where you can make a purposeful contribution. Join us to be a part of an organisation that fosters technical excellence and embraces the power of diversity to shape the technology landscape of a leading UK retailer. About the teamThe Cloud Azure PaaS team within Sainsbury's Tech owns and operates a dynamic Kubernetes based Platform-as-a-Service for containerised workloads running in our Microsoft Azure estate. This platform provides teams with a golden path to production, ensuring internal customer teams' apps and services are secure, scalable, supported and maintained. Hybrid working - SSC offices in Manchester, Coventry, or London and home. What you'll doAs Engineering Manager for Cloud Azure PaaS, you will lead the team responsible for building, operating, and continuously improving the platform services that enable teams across Sainsbury's Tech to deploy and run workloads safely, reliably, and efficiently in Microsoft Azure. You will lead and enable the delivery of cloud platform capabilities that create business value, improve engineering efficiency, and increase the reliability and performance of services running on Azure. You will line manage and guide a multi-skilled engineering team, ensuring they have the necessary resources and skills to deliver end-to-end technical solutions for products. Your responsibilities include mentoring and coaching your team members, recruiting diverse and talented individuals, and promoting a culture of collaboration, learning, and respect. Driving the development of new features, promoting best engineering practises, and advocating for agile / lean delivery methodologies are also essential aspects of your role. You are a passionate and experienced engineering leader with a deep understanding of engineering practises and a talent for coaching and developing teams. You excel in making well-informed technical decisions and implementing best practises, while also managing Capex and Opex responsibilities. Prior experience leading a Platform-as-a-Service or platform engineering team. Strong knowledge and experience of Microsoft Azure and its constituent services. Experience applying and evolving engineering standards, SDLC and agile ways of working within a team. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury's every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to 10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave. We'd all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. The level of data, transactions and variety involved. Then you'll realise this is a modern software engineering environment, because it has to be. We iterate, learn, experiment and champion ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to exciting opportunities across everything from AI to reusable tech.
Platform Engineering Manager - Azure in London employer: Sainsbury's Bank
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