Senior Infrastructure Developer (Platform)


Premium Job From Sainsbury

Recruiter

Sainsbury's

Listed on

28th June 2016

Location

London

Salary/Rate

Excellent

Salary Notes

Excellent

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

This job has now expired please search on the home page to find live IT Jobs.

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 a Senior Infrastructure Developer to join our expanding team to continuously deliver, enhance and support our business applications across production and non-production environments. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about automation and is relentlessly seeking ways to improve platform stability and increase the pace of change, whilst protecting service and increasing the business value.

As a Senior Infrastructure Developer (Platform) you will:

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

- Design and build large scale distributed systems.

- Act as a subject matter expert on at least one application with the scope of the team.

- Working with other engineering teams to accelerate software delivery.

- Build automation to prevent problem recurrence.

- Help shaping our organisation’s culture.

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

- Coaching and mentoring of other team members.

- Participate in a 24/7 on call rota as required.

As a Senior Infrastructure Developer (Platform) you will be expected to know:

- Is hands-on, highly technical with string 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.

- Has experience in one or more of these programming languages: Ruby, Python, Go or Shell.

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

- 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.

To apply please click the APPLY button.

You are currently using an outdated browser.

Please consider using a modern browser such as one listed below: