Infrastructure Platform Developer Lead

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Sainsbury’s, one of the UK’s largest retailers is investing heavily in digital innovation - its aim being to build a centre of excellence where digital output is crafted using industry leading best practice frameworks and methodologies to produce the world class apps and services. The team is growing rapidly and looking for talented colleagues to help deliver ambitious and market leading services that live up to Sainsbury’s industry leading reputation.

We are looking for an Infrastructure Platform Developer Lead to join our expanding team to continuously deliver, enhance and support Sainsbury’s production and non-production Public Cloud environments. The Infrastructure Platform Developer Lead will be an expert in environment automation and will be relentlessly seeking ways to improve platform stability and increase the pace of change, whilst protecting service and increasing the business value.

As an Infrastructure Platform Developer Lead you will:

- Lead a team of up to seven highly skilled engineers

- Implement and maintains a ‘self-service’ Public Cloud PaaS enabling product and project teams to select and deploy environments for development, testing and live without the need for a Public Cloud Infrastructure Developers - effectively the process for deploying environments is fully automated (genuinely self-service) in a controlled and consistent way.

- Ensure scalability, reliability, security and efficiency of Sainsbury’s systems.

- Design and build large scale distributed systems.

- Work with other engineering teams to accelerate software delivery.

- Build automation to provide templates and tools to delivery teams in the Development organisation.

- Help shape our organisation’s culture.

- Help define processes and standards, following industry best practices.

- Mentor other team members.

The Infrastructure Platform Developer Lead will need the following experience to be successful;

- Is hands-on, highly technical with strong experience in systems engineering.

- In-depth understanding of:

- Linux and Microsoft operating systems;

- delivering Infrastructure, Platform and Software as a Service solutions using Public Cloud services, such as AWS, Azure and Google, and open source technologies such as Ansible, Chef, Terraform, and Jenkins;

- managing source code and package repositories such as GitHub, Visual Source Safe and Aptly;

- experience with databases - MS SWL, Oracle, DB21, MySQL and AWS RDS, NoSQL;

- virtualisation and automation solutions.

- Experience in one or more of these programming languages: Ruby, Python, Go or Shell

- Networking experience and understanding of network (e.g. TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, etc) OSI layers, DNS, VPN, Firewalls and load balancing.

- Experience managing projects and artefacts using JIRA and Confluence

- Has proven experience working with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management systems and CI/CD.

- Has operational experience working with large, highly available, highly transactional systems on private and public clouds.

- Understands how to analyze and present operational metrics and use that data to optimize systems.

- Can work independently and take initiative.

- Has experience leading a diverse technical team

- Is a great communicator

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