As a DevOps Engineer in the Nectar team, you will contribute to the daily operation of a modern self-service Kubernetes platform, which serves the needs of developers across numerous application teams. Enabling Sainsbury’s to deliver great value and experience to millions of Nectar customers every week, in as fast, safe and efficient way possible.

You’ll be a role model for best practices, championing a customer centric mindset and a passion for ` creative ways to solve problems, as well as mentoring fellow engineers as a progressive member of the engineering community. We’d also like you to be yourself – analytical, curious and unafraid to challenge the status quo. 

More about the role

• You’ll be part of a team that works on a large-scale PaaS responsible for hosting containerised workloads in the cloud.
• 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 

More about you

• Great expertise in modern Cloud engineering practices, including deep knowledge of system architecture, reliability engineering and DevOps principles.
• Proven experience of cloud architecture, container orchestration, infrastructure as code and CI/CD
• Self-driven and constantly striving to improve your team, division and peers 
• Drive for advocacy of agile/lean delivery methodologies 
• A passion for delivering solutions to customers, owning the whole SDLC and living the DevSecOps principles 
• Ideally, prior experience of developing and operating a self-service Platform-as-a-Service.
• A passion for enhancing your knowledge and evidence of curiosity in emerging tech 
• Display pragmatism, empathy and understanding when interacting with team, stakeholders and customers.

Technologies we use

• AWS
• Kubernetes (EKS)
• Terraform
• Istio
• Flux
• Crossplane
• Helm
• ELK / EFK
• Hashicorp Vault
• GitHub Actions
• Prometheus / Thanos / Grafana
• New Relic
• Kafka
• OPA Gatekeeper

As well as lots of on-the-job training and endless opportunities, you’ll get:

• Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat 
• Holiday allowance 
• Bonus scheme 
• Pension plan 
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more