Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer – Edge

Job title:

Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer – Edge

Company

Sainsbury’s

Job description

Job Description:Cloud Foundations (Azure)- Senior Edge Cloud Platform EngineerThis role is largely remote, you would only need to come into the office around once a month, you can chose to come into any of our location (London, Coventry or Manchester)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 a Senior Azure Edge Cloud Engineer to join and represent a team dedicated to delivering and managing our Hyperconverged Azure Local Platform. Your work will ensure the scalability, reliability, security, and efficiency of the environments hosting Sainsbury’s applications.Role Summary:You will play a key role in ensuring our environments are scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-efficient, while driving continuous improvement across our cloud capabilities and helping to deliver best-in-class cloud services to Sainsbury’s.We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Senior Azure Edge Cloud Engineer to support the design, deployment, and administration of Azure Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) for Sainsbury’s Edge solutions. The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing and managing scalable, secure, and high-performance hybrid cloud infrastructure, ensuring seamless integration between on-premises systems and our Azure Cloud Platform.What You’ll Do:Build and Run Scalable Infrastructure: Use cutting-edge tools and technologies to continuously deliver robust Cloud Infrastructure at the Edge, using Infrastructure as Code practices. Engage in supporting the design, collaborating with Product Owners, our Engineering Community and Architects 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.Azure Expertise: Strong experience with Azure HCI services and tools to design, deploy, and manage scalable infrastructure, including the building and management of Containers at the EdgePassion for Automation: A deep commitment to automation and modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines that support our requirement to scale and robust administrationInfrastructure as Code: Hands-on experience with Terraform, Bicep, or similar tools for IaaC.Tooling and Innovation: Ability to develop custom tools or leverage open-source solutions to enhance platform efficiency and usability.Enhance Cloud Platform Capabilities: Develop internal tools to improve platform speed, 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 Ops implications to continuously improve services.Ensure Identity and Access Management controls are in place and strictly adhered toMonitor infrastructure by setting appropriate thresholds and react to event driven alerts appropriately.Produce and maintain documentation of support processes & resolutions to known operational issuesCollaborate Across Teams: Work with engineers across diverse platforms and technologies to create consistent, reliable, and reusable Edge Cloud Solutions. Collaborate with other DevOps Engineers to support design, implement and evolve automated pipelines to our Edge Platforms. A proactive and collaborative mindset to work closely with stakeholders, engineers, and cross-functional teams.Ensure Operational Excellence: Focus on delivering a platform that meets stringent security, availability, and performance requirements for critical applications. Participate in a 24/7 on call rota as required to support our Platform and the services that it offers.What You Need to Know & ShowHave a strong demonstratable understanding of, as well as commercial, hands-on experience of working in Microsoft Azure, preferably with proven experience in Azure HCI.

• Proven experience in Cloud Operations and DevOps environments, with a strong focus on best practices and continuous improvement, especially using Azure Local (HCI)

• Skilled in automated testing, pipeline maintenance, and using tools like GitHub and GitHub Actions for version control.

• Familiar with Agile methodologies, ITIL, SRE, and service operations practices.

• Competent in system monitoring, security, auditing, and tracking work through tools like Jira.

• Up-to-date knowledge of cloud technologies and a general understanding of related technology stacks.

• Effective in managing workloads, mentoring team members, and driving platform improvements while engaging with stakeholders.

Key Aspects:Azure Stack HCI ExpertiseKnowledge of running containers and container orchestration at a large, distributed scale, utilising KubernetesExperience of managing the lifecycle and maintenance of multiple Kubernetes clusters prioritising service stability and uptimeKnowledge of Kubernetes networking paradigms including CNI, Calico and MetalLBCI/CD & Infrastructure as Code (IaaC)Building CI/CD pipelines GitHub ActionsProficiency in Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates for automatedDeployment experience implementing GitOps workflows using Flux CDDeploying and managing Azure Kubernetes Service on Azure Stack HCI (ARC AKS).Provide engineering teams with a golden path to production, ensuring that their deployments follow best practises and are within our guardrailsMonitoring, Security & ComplianceUsing Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Defender for Containers for observability.Securing workloads with RBAC, network policies, and Azure Security Centre.Ensuring compliance with Azure Policy and regulatory standards.Automation & Lifecycle ManagementAutomating infrastructure provisioning and updates with PowerShell, Bash, or related programming LanguageManaging updates, backups, and disaster recovery solutions for Azure HCI environments.Soft SkillsProblem-solving: Troubleshooting complex hybrid cloud and edge computing Issues.Collaboration: Working with cross-functional teams and external vendors.Communication: Translating technical concepts Why Join Us?Be part of a team at the forefront of Sainsbury’s Cloud Technology in the retail industry and work on exciting and impactful projects with the opportunity to shape the future of Azure HCI Cloud Services within Sainsburys.Collaborate with passionate, skilled professionals in an environment that values innovation and continuous learning.If you’re ready to bring your technical expertise and creativity to build the future of Sainsbury’s cloud platform, we’d love to hear from you!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.Private Health Insurance – dependant on grade, but available to those Colleagues that qualify.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. This approach ensures you have plenty of time and space for life outside of work while allowing you to be passionate about delivering on our business goals.Responsibilities: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.Qualifications: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 20% 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, interest free car loan of up to £10k, 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, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.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).

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Location

Coventry

Job date

Fri, 14 Mar 2025 03:46:19 GMT

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