Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer - Edge
On site
Coventry, United Kingdom
Full Time
27-03-2025
Job Specifications
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.
Cloud Foundations (Azure)- Senior Edge Cloud Platform Engineer
This 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 Edge
Passion for Automation: A deep commitment to automation and modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines that support our requirement to scale and robust administration
Infrastructure 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 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
Collaborate 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 & Show
Have 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 Expertise
Knowledge of running containers and container orchestration at a large, distributed scale, utilising Kubernetes
Experience of managing the lifecycle and maintenance of multiple Kubernetes clusters prioritising service stability and uptime
Knowledge of Kubernetes networking paradigms including CNI, Calico and MetalLB
CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code (IaaC)
Building CI/CD pipelines GitHub Actions
Proficiency in Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates for automated
Deployment experience implementing GitOps workflows using Flux CD
Deploying 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 guardrails
Monitoring, Security & Compliance
Using 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 Management
Automating infrastructure provisioning and updates with PowerShell, Bash, or related programming Language
Managing updates, backups, and disaster recovery solutions for Azure HCI environments.
Soft Skills
Problem-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?
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About the Company
Over 150 years old and still going strong, we’re the UK’s second-biggest retailer. Every day, the nation shops with us because they know they’ll get affordable, good food and excellent service. We focus on great value and convenient shopping across our family of brands, from Argos, Nectar and Habitat to Sainsbury’s Bank, Smart Charge and Tu. What’s next for Sainsbury’s? We've put food back at the heart of our business and we’re taking Sainsbury’s to the next level. We’re investing in technology and people and we’re thinki... Know more
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