What you’ll already have:

• Experience working with one or both of Google Cloud Platform (johnlewis.com) or Amazon Web Services (waitrose.com), and in particular those cloud services which are used to run Microservices at scale.

• Managing infrastructure as code, with a Software Engineering mindset.

• Comfortable with the use of Docker & Kubernetes.

• Use of languages such as Python or Golang to automate configuration and extend platform services.

• Building distributed systems for reliability and security.

• Implementing cloud-native solutions to provide observability for the platform and the services that run within it.

• Familiarity in the Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery practice, and experience of using supporting tools to help it work effectively for many Engineers.

What else you could bring:

• Awareness with Agile development methods such as Scrum or Kanban.

• Specific use of some of the following languages and tools is very helpful:

  • Google Kubernetes Engine or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

  • Terraform

  • Grafana & Prometheus

  • Elastic & Kibana 

  • Gitlab CI