The big question: why should a Tech professional like you work for a 150-year-old retail chain? Because we are on a journey. Changing the way, we operate. Learning to think nimble. Giving our teams the time and freedom, they need to push boundaries. To create amazing systems and technologies. To give our colleagues and our customers even more incredible experiences.

There are thousands of experts to talk to and learn from. We have data from billions of transactions for our teams to play with. Things get built here. They get made here. They hit customers and colleagues quickly. Welcome to the home of Sainsbury's Tech.

This role is within Commercial Tech, just one of many families with Sainsbury’s Tech, and our mission is to master Commercial data for the whole Sainsbury’s Group. Commercial Tech is made up of several long lived, cross functional domains each with one or more teams. Our teams are part of an ambitious transformation programme using microservices and event streams to deliver value to our customers.

Tech Stack:

AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kafka, Spark, Snowflake and more. We keep track of everything using Git, Jira & Confluence. You do not need experience with everything in this list!

What you will be doing:

    Provide Cloud expertise as part of a cross functional software delivery team(s)

    Creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for Data Engineering Products

    Comfortable designing Cloud Native solutions, using best practices and working to continually improve those solutions

    Apply your “Automate everything” mindset

    Communicate & share technical decisions with non-technical team members and stakeholders.

    Working with Agile delivery teams in a fast-paced, DevOps environment

Desirable skills and experience:

    Knowledgeable on AWS

    Infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible

    Designing, implementing & maintaining CI/CD pipelines (experience with AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline an advantage)

    Understanding of Identify and Access Management and Networking

    Understanding of Docker and containerising applications

    Knowledge of Linux based systems

    Production monitoring & alerting distributed applications at scale

    Familiar with a well-architected framework and Serverless solutions

    Comfortable being part of a Data Engineering team and working alongside Engineers

If you are excited by this role but don’t feel that you match the above list exactly please, please do apply and let us know why you’d be great for the role.

In return you’ll get:

    Opportunity to work on complex real-world problems that make a huge impact to the daily          lives of our customers

    To use and increase your expertise in AWS, CI/CD, Microservices and the latest tech-stacks

    A focus on training and development

    Become part of a vibrant, diverse and dynamic organisation

    The trust and autonomy to thrive

    Colleague discount across multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat

    Holiday allowance

    Bonus scheme

    Pension plan

    Special offers on memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more

Flexible working and job share conversations are encouraged. Across our multi-brands, we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture. If you’re reading this, even if you’re not 100% sure you’re there with your experience, we’d still love to hear from you. If you’d like to find out more head to Sainsbury's