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

Sainsbury's; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join their Nectar team. This role involves managing a large-scale PaaS that hosts containerized workloads in the cloud, ensuring reliability and fault tolerance. You will champion best practices and foster a customer-centric mindset while mentoring fellow engineers. The ideal candidate will have a passion for cloud engineering, a drive for continuous improvement, and a knack for problem-solving. This position offers exciting opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies and contribute to impactful projects that enhance customer experiences.

Benefits

Colleague discount

Holiday allowance

Bonus scheme

Pension plan

Special offers on gym memberships

Health cash plans

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loans

Qualifications

• Expertise in cloud engineering and DevOps principles.
• Experience with container orchestration and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the operation of a modern Kubernetes platform.
• Guide and support team performance with technical knowledge.

Skills

Cloud engineering practices

System architecture

Reliability engineering

DevOps principles

Agile/lean delivery methodologies

Curiosity in emerging tech

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Kafka

Job description

As a DevOps Engineer in the Nectar team, you will contribute to the daily operation of a modern self-service Kubernetes platform, serving the needs of developers across numerous application teams. Your role will enable Sainsbury’s to deliver great value and experience to millions of Nectar customers weekly, in a fast, safe, and efficient manner.

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

1. You’ll be part of a team that manages a large-scale PaaS responsible for hosting containerized workloads in the cloud.
2. You’ll work with technologies at an enterprise scale.
3. 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.
4. You’ll guide, support, and enable performance within the team through providing technical knowledge and ideas.

More about you

1. Great expertise in modern Cloud engineering practices, including deep knowledge of system architecture, reliability engineering, and DevOps principles.
2. Proven experience with cloud architecture, container orchestration, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD.
3. Self-driven and constantly striving to improve your team, division, and peers.
4. Drive for advocacy of agile/lean delivery methodologies.
5. A passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole SDLC, and living the DevSecOps principles.
6. Ideally, prior experience of developing and operating a self-service Platform-as-a-Service.
7. A passion for enhancing your knowledge and evidence of curiosity in emerging tech.
8. 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

Benefits

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 regardless of who you are and where you work. We support your development and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile, offering flexible working where possible. Upon joining, you'll enjoy a range of benefits including:

• Starting with a 10% colleague discount after 4 weeks, increasing to 15% at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday, and 15% at Argos every payday.
• Pensions scheme and life cover.
• Performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary.
• Annual holiday allowance with options to buy additional days.
• Benefits such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advances, and discounts from retailers.
• Up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave, and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.

For more details, visit www.sainsburys.jobs.

Responsibilities

We value work-life balance and the opportunity to work on impactful projects at scale. Our environment emphasizes continuous learning, experimentation, and agile methodologies, providing exciting opportunities in areas from AI to reusable tech.