Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

“This is a great opportunity to join the Cloud Platforms Engineering team that provides simple, zero-friction, self-service access to on-premises and public cloud services for development teams across Sky. You’ll join a dedicated, ambitious, forwarding-think and diverse team where the focus is on building modern, scalable automated platforms with security and reliability-built in.”

What you’ll do:

Continuous development of OSS Cloud Foundry platform as a product via a prioritised backlog used by critically important applications across Sky

Continuous development of OSS DBs; Galera MySQL, PostgresDB, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ with built-in self-service capabilities

Champion building a multi-cloud Kubernetes native PaaS on EKS, AKS, GKE and on-premises

Accelerate a “shift left” mentality to deliver a library of automated, self-service capabilities that empower developers across all areas of Sky’s business.

Enhance and extend the DevOps relationships with multiple teams across Sky technology, learning more about their requirements, future strategy to determine how to best serve their needs proactively.

Evangelise the use of cloud platforms and DevOps/SRE practices, sharing knowledge and standard methodology.

Evaluate industry brand new tools and techniques for DevOps/SRE to ensure our cloud platforms deliver the best possible experience to the userbase whilst remaining operationally efficient at scale.

What you’ll bring:

Excellent Linux, Containers, and networks skills

Proven track record of automation using modern software development tools and techniques.

Excellent GitOps skills and infrastructure automation skills (Bosh, terraform, Crossplane)

Knowledge and proficient use of CaaS (Kubernetes) and PaaS (Cloud Foundry).

Good programming skills in Python\Go

Good DB skills in any of MongoDB, Galera MySQL, PostgresDB, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ

Familiarity with enterprise incident, problem, change and release management.

Passion for emerging open-source technologies and solving challenges.

Team overview:

Group Communications and Infrastructure

Looking to be part of non-stop innovation? Join our Group Communications and Infrastructure team and you’ll work alongside experts in broadband, telephony, mobile, cloud and infrastructure. We’re the team that designs, builds, supports, and maintains the telecoms networks across the whole Sky Group. Together, we help Sky broadband, mobile and TV enter new markets by creating a single and secure infrastructure for the amazing content and services that keep our customers coming back for more.

The Rewards:

There’s a reason people can’t stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:

Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place

A generous pension package

Private healthcare

Discounted mobile and broadband

Access a wide range of exclusive Sky VIP rewards and experiences

Where you’ll work (we’re flexible on this!):

Leeds:

Our spacious tech hub is under a mile away from Leeds train station, with free water taxis available from Granary Wharf. There’s also plenty of parking in the surrounding streets and at the nearby CitiPark.

You can also blow off steam over a game of pool or table tennis and stay fit at our subsidised gym.

OR

Livingston Watermark House:

Our lively campus is a free shuttle bus away from Livingston South train station and the town center. Plus, there’s onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes, and bicycles.

You’ll be well fed at our subsidised canteen, and you can keep in shape at our onsite gym. Or play a game of pool or table tennis.

Inclusion:

We take pride in our approach to diversity and inclusion: we’ve been recognised by The Times and Stonewall for this, and we’ve committed £30million to support the fight against racial injustice. We’ve also set ambitious targets for increasing ethnic diversity and representation throughout our organisation.

At Sky we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and your potential. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, so we’re happy to discuss flexible working.

And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.