Senior Cloud Engineer

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Edinburgh, Milton Keynes OR Widnes

In a nutshell
Reporting directly into the Head of Cloud Operations, you will be working in one of the fastest growing and dynamic areas of Sainsbury’s Bank. You’ll be supporting us in delivering an exceptional cloud infrastructure for all our customers, helping to define and establish a continuous delivery approach on our AWS cloud platform and will be working closely with other members of the agile community with the Bank. As a technical expert, we expect you to be able to coach and mentor junior team members and be able to provide recommendations for improvement to the Head of Cloud Operations.


What You Need To Do
We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to work within a team engaged in delivering and running the cloud platform to ensure the scalability, reliability, security and efficiency of the environments that host Sainsbury’s Bank applications.


As a Senior Cloud Engineer You Will

• Help lead on the delivery of best in breed cloud services to Sainsbury’s Bank.
• Deploy and configure production systems, with a particular focus on automation, ease of configuration, reduction of human error, repeatability and security.
• Collaborate with other DevOps Engineers to design, implement and evolve automated pipelines in the cloud.
• Provide coaching and mentoring to junior colleagues within the team
• Act as a ‘go to’ person for the Head of Cloud Operations for any technical queries
• Take a lead role in design, collaborating with product owners and architects to ensure that solutions help customers and achieve the Bank’s goals
• 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.
• Discover and recommend ways to improve reliability and efficiency
• Maintain an overarching service dashboard and reporting
• Produce and maintain documentation of support processes & resolutions to known operational issues.
• Participate in a 24/7 on call rota as required
• Line manage a team of Cloud Engineers
  
  

What You Need To Know & Show

• Have a strong understanding of AWS as well as commercial, hands on experience of working in this environment
• Substantial experience in Terraform and one or more programming languages
• Be experienced working with Agile delivery teams in a fast paced, DevOps environment
• Have a best practice approach to writing infrastructure as code
• Experienced in writing automated tests and pipelines
• Be diligent and positive about tracking (JIRA), system monitoring, security & auditing
• You will have experience of source and version control tools such as Gitlab
• Good understanding of Service Operation & ITIL responsibilities
• An up-to-date understanding of Cloud technology base and a general understanding of other technology bases
• Experience and proven track record as a member of a Cloud team within an Operations function
• Line management experience
• Ability to manage a complex mix of work within tight timescales
• Feed your insights to the Head of Cloud Operations to continuously improve the platform
• Be an active contributing part of an agile development team
• The ability to engage with and influence stakeholders
  
  

Colleague Conduct Rules
The individual performing this role is expected to adhere to the conduct rules as specified by our regulators (PRA and FCA).


Our Benefits
In addition to the all-important competitive salary, pension & bonus offering, we totally get that life outside work is important to us all. So we want to shout out some of our other great benefits…

• We offer flexible working to help you achieve a good work/life balance.
• Opportunity to buy extra holidays is on the table.
• Discounts on your weekly shop, buying a laptop or sofa? We’ve got it covered through your Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat store discount card.
• Cycle to work scheme and great coffee and cake!
  
  

A Little About Us & Our Culture
We’re proud of our heritage as the UK’s first supermarket bank. As digital technology drives the banking landscape we want to be at the cutting edge of this technology, offering award winning innovative digital banking products to our customers. Technology is where we see our growth therefore, we need innovators to join us and drive the next phase of our evolution.

We’re a friendly bunch who collectively share a passion to make our customers’ financial lives easier. As part of the wider Sainsbury’s Group, being one of the UK’s most trusted brands, it brings our colleagues a wealth of opportunities to fulfil their potential. Here, you can be part of something bigger and help to create a new approach that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do.

Everyone is welcome at the Sainsbury’s Group, and we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours within your working days, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

If you’re interested in applying and are excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience – we’d still love to hear from you! Apply today and we’ll be in touch (we’re also happy to discuss flexible working options (including part time and job share).

As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.


Primary Location
GB-GB-Milton Keynes


Work Locations
Argos - Avebury and Home


Job
I.T.


Schedule
Full-time


Advertised Salary
Competitive