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AWS Cloud Engineer

Sainsbury’s · London, ENG, United Kingdom
London, ENG, United KingdomRemote
Remuneration
Benefits include a performance-related bonus, colleague discounts, holiday allowance, pension, life cover, health cash plans, season ticket loans, a cycle-to-work scheme, pay advance, employee assistance, and parental leave pay.
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified

Job summary

Design, deliver, and operate an AWS Cloud Platform that supports business services and applications, ensuring environments are scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-efficient. Build infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, automate multi-account deployments and CI/CD pipelines, strengthen access controls, monitor and improve platform operations, and collaborate with engineering, product, architecture, and information security teams. The role includes production support through an on-call rota.

Benefits

Colleague discountsHoliday allowancePerformance-related bonusPension planLife coverHealth cash plansSeason ticket loansCycle-to-work schemePay advanceEmployee assistance programmePaid maternity or adoption leavePaid paternity leave

Qualifications

  • Enterprise, hands-on experience working with AWS.
  • Experience with enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure and multi-account deployments using AWS Control Tower, AWS Organizations, and Account Factory for Terraform.
  • Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CLI or SDK, or similar automation tools.
  • Experience with TypeScript, JavaScript, or Python.
  • Experience with GitHub or other source control tools; GitHub Actions experience preferred.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, including explaining technical concepts to cross-functional teams and external vendors.
  • Knowledge of serverless architectures and cloud networking concepts.
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills for hybrid cloud platforms.
  • Understanding of service operations, SRE, ITIL, and highly available, fault-tolerant cloud environments.

Responsibilities

  • Design, deliver, and operate scalable AWS cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code.
  • Automate multi-account deployments and cloud delivery pipelines.
  • Develop internal tools to improve platform performance, security, and cost efficiency.
  • Deploy and configure production systems with an emphasis on automation, repeatability, and reducing human error.
  • Assess new cloud features and their operational implications.
  • Maintain identity and access management controls.
  • Set infrastructure monitoring thresholds and respond to alerts.
  • Document support processes and resolutions for known operational issues.
  • Collaborate with engineering, product, architecture, and information security teams on reusable cloud solutions.
  • Participate in on-call support for the platform and its services.

Skills

AWSCloudFormationCloudWatchConfluenceECSEKSGitHubGitHub ActionsGraphQLIAMJavaScriptJiraKubernetesAWS LambdaNew RelicNode.jsPythonRESTRoute 53S3TerraformTypeScript

Work schedule

Full-timeOn-call and 24/7 out-of-hours support as requiredFlexible hours

Industry

Retail

Relocation

No