Every week, we move millions of products to our customers at record speed. Delivering brilliant customer experiences at this pace requires fresh and appealing products to be available whenever and however our customers choose to shop. In this area of our business, we ensure that happens seamlessly.
We are looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Engineer to join and represent a team dedicated to delivering and managing the AWS Cloud Platform. Your work will ensure the scalability, reliability, security, and efficiency of the environments hosting Sainsbury’s applications.
Role Summary:
We are seeking an experienced Senior AWS Cloud Platform Engineer with a passion for AWS, Infrastructure as Code and automation to join our team. This role focuses on designing, delivering, and operating our AWS 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: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, collaboration with Product Owners, our Engineering Community, Architects and Information Security 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.
AWS Expertise: Strong experience with AWS services and tooling to design, deploy, and manage scalable infrastructure, including the building and management of serverless architectures.
Passion for Automation: A deep commitment to automation and modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines.
Infrastructure as Code: Hands-on experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, Serverless or similar tools for IaC.
Tooling and Innovation: Ability to develop custom tools or leverage open-source solutions to enhance platform efficiency and usability.
Enhance Cloud Platform Capabilities: Develop internal tools to improve platform performance, 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.
Collaborate Across Teams: Work with engineers, product and service 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.
Ensure Operational Excellence: Focus on delivering a platform that meets stringent security, availability, and performance requirements for critical applications. Participate in a 24/7 BAU and on call rotas as required to support our platform and the services that it offers.
What You Need to Know & Show: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 AWS 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:
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.