As a Senior Azure Platform Engineer within our Cloud PaaS team, you’ll play a key role in designing, delivering, and operating a modern self-service Kubernetes platform that supports hundreds of developers across multiple application teams. Your work will enable Sainsbury’s to provide an exceptional shopping experience to over 20 million customers each week, in a fast, safe, and efficient manner. 

 

The team is responsible for building and maintaining a compelling internal Platform-as-a-Service product, ensuring it meets the needs of our primary customers: the application teams. We leverage a range of cloud-native technologies, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Helm, Istio, Flux, Terraform, and GitHub Actions, among others. Technology choices are made thoughtfully to complement our ecosystem and deliver real value, not simply because they’re new or trendy. 

 

About The Role  

You will act as an Azure subject matter expert within the team  You’ll be part of a team that owns the architecture, development and operation of a large-scale PaaS responsible for hosting containerised workloads in the cloud.  You’ll work with Product managers & Engineers to plan and implement the product technical roadmap for Sainsbury’s strategic PaaS  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  
 

Technologies we use 

Azure  Kubernetes (AKS)  Istio  Terraform  Flux  Crossplane  Helm  ELK / EFK  Hashicorp Vault  GitHub Actions  Prometheus / Thanos / Grafana  New Relic  Kafka  OPA Gatekeeper  Typescript, Go, Python, Bash 

 

About You

Extensive hands-on experience and expertise with Microsoft Azure in a commercial environment  Experience with container orchestration platforms and tooling, such as Kubernetes, with a solid understanding of deployment practices; CI/CD, GitOps etc  Knowledge of Azure Cloud PaaS platforms providing key capabilities and services to support efficient application development, deployment, and management   Experience of building or working with an internal Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) at scale  Experience of managing and automating Infrastructure estates via code, ideally with Terraform  Ability to write code in one or more of our core languages (Typescript, Go, Python, Bash)  Be experienced working with delivery teams in a fast paced, DevOps environment   Be diligent and positive about tracking (JIRA), system monitoring, security & auditing  Good understanding of Service Operations, SRE & ITIL responsibilities   Experience of Agile Methodologies and Frameworks.   An up-to-date understanding of Cloud technology base and a general understanding of other technology bases   Experience and proven track record as a member of a Cloud team within an Operations function   Display pragmatism, empathy and understanding when interacting with team, stakeholders and customers. 
 

Minimum Criteria 

Azure: Extensive hands-on experience and expertise with Microsoft Azure in a commercial environment.  Container Orchestration: Experience with container orchestration platforms and tooling, such as Kubernetes, with a solid understanding of deployment practices; CI/CD, GitOps etc  PaaS: Some experience of building or working with an internal Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) at scale