Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure & AWS)

Salary: Competitive Plus BenefitsLocation: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HTContract type: PermanentBusiness area: Sainsbury’s TechClosing date: 29 December 2024Requisition ID: 279454

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.

Cloud Foundations (Azure)- Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (C5)

We are looking for a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to join and represent a team dedicated to delivering and managing the Azure Cloud Platform. Your work will ensure the scalability, reliability, security, and efficiency of the environments hosting Sainsbury’s applications.

Role Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer with a passion for Azure, Infrastructure as Code and automation to join our team. This role focuses on designing, delivering, and operating our Azure Cloud Platform that powers Sainsbury’s Services and Applications. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring our environments are scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-efficient, while driving continuous improvement across our cloud capabilities and help lead on the delivery of best in breed cloud services to Sainsbury’s.

What You’ll Do:

1. Build and Run Scalable Infrastructure: Use cutting-edge tools and technologies to continuously deliver robust Cloud Infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code practices. Engage in the design, collaborating with Product Owners, our Engineering Community and Architects to ensure that solutions help customers and achieve our business goals and objectives. Discover and recommend ways to improve reliability and efficiency, with a keen eye on Governance and Security.
2. Azure Expertise: Strong experience with Azure services and tools to design, deploy, and manage scalable infrastructure, including the building and management of Containers.
3. Passion for Automation: A deep commitment to automation and modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines.
4. Infrastructure as Code: Hands-on experience with Terraform, Bicep, or similar tools for IaaC.
5. Tooling and Innovation: Ability to develop custom tools or leverage open-source solutions to enhance platform efficiency and usability.
6. Enhance Cloud Platform Capabilities: Develop internal tools to improve platform speed, security, and cost-efficiency, enabling teams to work smarter. Deploy and configure production systems, with a particular focus on automation, ease of configuration, reduction of human error, repeatability, and security.
7. Monitor new features/functionality and assess their Ops implications to continuously improve services.
8. Ensure Identity and Access Management controls are in place and strictly adhered to.
9. Monitor infrastructure by setting appropriate thresholds and react to event driven alerts appropriately.
10. Produce and maintain documentation of support processes & resolutions to known operational issues.
11. Collaborate Across Teams: Work with engineers across diverse platforms and technologies to create consistent, reliable, and reusable cloud solutions. Collaborate with other DevOps Engineers to design, implement and evolve automated pipelines in the cloud. A proactive and collaborative mindset to work closely with stakeholders, engineers, and cross-functional teams.
12. Ensure Operational Excellence: Focus on delivering a platform that meets stringent security, availability, and performance requirements for critical applications. Participate in a 24/7 on call rota as required to support our Platform and the services that it offers.

What You Need to Know & Show

1. Have a strong demonstratable understanding of, as well as commercial, hands-on experience of working in Microsoft Azure.
2. Substantial experience in Terraform and one or more programming languages, preferably NodeJS and Typescript.
3. Have experience with containerisation tools and orchestration platforms, such as Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), with a solid understanding of deployment practices, ideally using GitOps methodologies with ArgoCD and GitActions.
4. Knowledge of Azure Cloud PaaS platforms providing key capabilities and services to support efficient application development, deployment, and management.
5. Be experienced working with delivery teams in a fast paced, DevOps environment.
6. Experienced in writing automated tests and maintaining pipelines.
7. Be diligent and positive about tracking (JIRA), system monitoring, security & auditing.
8. You will have experience of source and version control tools such as GitHub and preferably experience in GitHub Actions.
9. Good understanding of Service Operations, SRE & ITIL responsibilities.
10. Experience of Agile Methodologies and Frameworks.
11. An up-to-date understanding of Cloud technology base and a general understanding of other technology bases.
12. Experience and proven track record as a member of a Cloud team within an Operations function.
13. Proven Cloud Operations experience with strong best practice knowledge and mentoring skills, with effective workload management and stakeholder engagement and actively contribute to Platform development and drive platform improvements.

Why Join Us?

Be part of a team at the forefront of Sainsbury’s Cloud Technology in the retail industry and work on exciting and impactful projects with the opportunity to shape the future of Azure Cloud Services within Sainsburys. Collaborate with passionate, skilled professionals in an environment that values innovation and continuous learning.

If you’re ready to bring your technical expertise and creativity to build the future of Sainsbury’s cloud platform, we’d love to hear from you!

Alongside comprehensive on-the-job training and endless development opportunities, you’ll enjoy:

1. Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat.
2. Bonus scheme to reward your contributions based on Company and Personal performance.
3. Pension plan to help secure your future after qualifying period, the Pension Plan is available to join.
4. Private Health Insurance – dependant on grade, but available to those Colleagues that qualify.
5. Special offers from Sainsbury’s “Love It” Benefits Scheme, such as discounts on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.

We value work-life balance and offer as much flexibility as possible, tailored to the needs of your role. You’ll have the freedom to decide how, where, and when you work, blending remote and collaborative working during Core Business hours alongside flexible hours. This approach ensures you have plenty of time and space for life outside of work while allowing you to be passionate about delivering on our business goals.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new – whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business – and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

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.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. 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.

Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

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