Sainsbury's
Location
Holborn, Greater London | United Kingdom
Job description
Why join us We operate on an incredible scale. There’s data from our 10 million+ Nectar users, days like Black Friday that make Argos the 3rd biggest website in the UK, and supply chain integration that gets the right products to the right locations on time, every time. The tech we use is bang up to date too, whether we’re in the cloud deploying over a 1,000 microservices into AWS, Azure and GCP or streaming billions of messages on Kafka and building event-based solutions. This is where you can broaden your technical knowledge and use your Agile skills to develop how we work. As a Staff Engineer, you’ll help us bring together complex horizontal outcomes via the Cloud Team. They’ll be your remit, as they provide a reusable, scalable and secure cloud services via Kubernetes PaaS and self-service portals, using CSP agnostic IaC. What you'll do You’ll work with the Head of Engineering to set and achieve strategic direction and goals, evaluate technical decisions and plan teams' development and support. It’ll see you work with engineers at all levels as you promote standards, share your expertise and help them find the best solutions — coaching and mentoring them all the while to be the best they can be. Alongside peers from other areas, you’ll have the chance to widen your knowledge, deliver broader solutions and ensure reusability of the tech and skills across different domains. Throughout, you’ll act as a technical backbone, a point of contact and a coach and a guide. We have plans to expand our engineering entry programs and we want you to be a big part of that too. Who you are An experienced engineer with technical depth and breadth, you take the initiative, evaluate risks and look to continuous improvement to get the best outcomes. But you’ll also need the ability to become part of your teams and support them by leading from experience in what they’re doing. So, you should be strong in both technical and Agile mentorship, guiding on the engineering vision as well as helping them to increase their performance. Whether your background is mostly in software, data, infrastructure, or network, you’ll bring us programming language expertise and experience of software design and implementation. You embrace a product mindset and ideally you’ve helped teams improve how their practice by implementing SRE principles. Your ability to adapt to the new will help you as you discover the diversity of our tech and set a path to bold changes. In return You’ll enjoy all this and more: Flexible working – tailored approach to balance your working from home and collaboration in the office, sensible freedom to shape your week and day working hours, offices in different locations Colleague discount across our brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat Health cover Holiday allowance Bonus scheme Pension plan Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture with deep focus on Collaboration, Coaching and Community.
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