DevOps Engineer

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

Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT Contract type: Permanent Business area: Sainsbury's Tech Closing date: 01 April 2025 Requisition ID: 297713

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.

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

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 10% 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, 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.

 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 www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).