DevOps Engineer - AWS - Terraform - Kubernetes - CI/CD

As a DevOps Engineer in the Nectar team, you will contribute to the daily operation of a modern self-service Kubernetes platform, which serves the needs of developers across numerous application teams. Enabling Sainsbury’s to deliver great value and experience to millions of Nectar customers every week, in as fast, safe and efficient way possible. You’ll be a role model for best practices, championing a customer-centric mindset and a passion for creative ways to solve problems, as well as mentoring fellow engineers as a progressive member of the engineering community. We’d also like you to be yourself – analytical, curious and unafraid to challenge the status quo.

More about the role: You’ll be part of a team that works on a large-scale PaaS responsible for hosting containerised workloads in the cloud. You’ll work with technologies at Enterprise scale. You may be asked to participate in out of hours support and should aim to build reliability and fault tolerance into the product, as well as engineering systems that are simple to diagnose and fix. You’ll guide, support and enable performance within the team through providing technical knowledge and ideas.

More about you: Great expertise in modern Cloud engineering practices, including deep knowledge of system architecture, reliability engineering and DevOps principles. Proven experience of cloud architecture, container orchestration, infrastructure as code and CI/CD. Self-driven and constantly striving to improve your team, division and peers. Drive for advocacy of agile/lean delivery methodologies. A passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole SDLC and living the DevSecOps principles. Ideally, prior experience of developing and operating a self-service Platform-as-a-Service. A passion for enhancing your knowledge and evidence of curiosity in emerging tech. Display pragmatism, empathy and understanding when interacting with team, stakeholders and customers.

Technologies we use: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Terraform, Istio, Flux, Crossplane, Helm, ELK / EFK, Hashicorp Vault, GitHub Actions, Prometheus / Thanos / Grafana, New Relic, Kafka, OPA Gatekeeper.

As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get: Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat. Holiday allowance. Bonus scheme. Pension plan. Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.

Qualifications: 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.

Responsibilities: 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.