About the Role
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 an 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.
Responsibilities
•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.
•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.
•Monitor new features/functionality and assess their operational implications to continuously improve services.
•Ensure Identity and Access Management controls are in place and strictly adhered to.
•Monitor infrastructure by setting appropriate thresholds and react to event driven alerts appropriately.
•Produce and maintain documentation of support processes & resolutions to known operational issues.
•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.
•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.
Requirements
•Understanding of, as well as enterprise, hands-on experience of working in AWS.
•Experience of enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure, automating multi-account deployments using AWS Control Tower, AWS Organisations, and Account Factory for Terraform (AFT).
•Experience in one or more of Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CLI/SDK, or similar automation tooling.
•Experience in one or more scripting languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Python.
•Experience of source and version control tools such as GitHub and preferably experience in GitHub Actions.
•Strong collaboration and communication, working with cross-functional teams and external vendors, translating technical concepts.
Nice to Have
•Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Lambda, CloudFormation, IAM, CloudWatch, Route 53.
•Experience in one or more of NodeJS, ReactJS or similar tooling.
•Awareness of Serverless architectures and technologies.
•Knowledge of cloud networking concepts (e.g. VPC, subnets, routing, firewalls, load balancers).
•Experience in CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, Code Pipeline, Code Build.
•Understanding of Front-End architecture and development like Next.js, libraries such as React, Angular, or Vue.js.
•Experience of API integration using RESTful and GraphQL.
•Understanding of automated testing and code quality assurance, through unit, integration and end-to-end tests.
•Awareness of containerisation tools and orchestration platforms, such as AWS Kubernetes Service (EKS), Elastic Container Service (ECS).
•Understanding of monitoring, security & compliance, using CloudTrail, CloudWatch, New Relic.
•Strong troubleshooting skills for hybrid cloud platform issues.
•Awareness of cloud cost optimisation, monitoring, alerting solutions to ensure cloud resources are running efficiently.
•Good understanding of Service Operations, SRE & ITIL responsibilities.
•Experience of agile methodologies, frameworks, collaboration tooling (e.g. Jira, Confluence).
•Understanding of solutions for highly available, fault-tolerant, and scalable cloud environments.
•Work with stakeholders to define requirements and create customised solutions that meet business objectives.
•An up-to-date understanding of cloud technology and a general understanding of other technology bases.
•A vision to build reliability and fault tolerance into products, as well as engineering systems that are simple to diagnose and fix.
•You will be asked to participate in 24/7 out of hours support.
Benefits
Alongside comprehensive on-the-job training and endless development opportunities, you'll enjoy:
•Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury's, Argos and Habitat.
•Generous holiday allowance.
•Bonus scheme to reward your contributions based on company and personal performance.
•Pension plan to help secure your future after qualifying period, the Pension Plan is available to join.
•Special offers from Sainsbury's "Love It" benefits scheme, such as discounts on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more.
•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.
