Senior Azure Platform Engineer

Salary:
Competitive Plus Benefits

Location:

London Store Support Centre, London, EC1M 6HA

Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 28 January 2026
Requisition :

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 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.

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

• Terraform
• Crossplane
• ELK / EFK
• Hashicorp Vault
• Git Hub Actions
• New Relic
• Kafka
• 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, Git Ops 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, Dev Ops 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.
• 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, Git Ops etc
• PaaS:
  Some experience of building or working with an internal Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) at scale

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.

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