Senior Azure Platform Engineer

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 Git Hub Actions, among others. Technology choices are made thoughtfully to complement our ecosystem and deliver real value, not simply because they’re new or trendy.

• 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

• Azure
• Kubernetes (AKS)
• Istio
• Terraform
• Flux