SENIOR DEVOPS ENGINEER

About the Role

As a Systems Engineer for Data Platforms you are an integral part of Tesco Technology's Data and Analytics team. You have accountability for the engineering excellence of the data platform, realising this from the current state and evolving engineering practices to meet the changing demand.

You use your technical breadth and depth to build and operate mission-critical systems at scale inspiring engineering community you interact with.

Successfully transforming the way we build and operate platforms, allowing SW engineering platform consumers to focus on value-added work will be a key activity.

Key Responsibilities

Whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities and measures:

• Establishing and sharing engineering excellence for data platforms
• Building the data platforms to transform them without impact to existing levels of service
• Designing solutions that will operate at scale with high availability and automation at its core.
• Ability to produce High-Level Documentation for designed solutions
• Building globally, ensuring consistency in approach throughout all our locations in the UK, Europe and Asia
• Monitoring technology industry trends
• Contributing to supplier roadmaps
• Ensuring operational stability is balanced with engineering and roadmap delivery
• Driving adoption of new tools and techniques being able to understand their value and impact
• Keeping technical skills up to date and keeping track of new technologies, industry trends, understanding how they might benefit the Technology team and wider Tesco

Skills & Experience

Experience relevant for this job:

• Track record of managing mission-critical, large scale service in a global organisation.
• Expertise with design, deploy and support large scale Kubernetes clusters.
• Strong experience level with Docker, Rancher, Terraform, Ansible and Jenkins.
• Strong technical knowledge and troubleshooting skills with Linux (CentOS/RHEL/Ubuntu).
• Good skills and understanding of networking technologies (TCP/IP, routing, DNS, LBs, etc).
• Experience on creating CI/CD pipelines for delivery and IaC (infrastructure as code).
• Ability to do and understand scripting/coding, with Bash, Python, Go, etc.
• Ability to understand, design, deploy and support large scale, complex platforms.
• Track record of using automation to build platforms and prevent problem recurrence.
• Ops experience in automated delivery such as continuous integration, continuous deployment and immutable infrastructure.
• Contributing to the Opensource community.
• Ability to work collaboratively with other members of a globally distributed team.
• Good understanding of Azure cloud technologies.

Skills relevant for the job:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A methodical/ analytical approach and great problem-solving skills
• Team player who could work collaboratively with other members of the team
• DevOps Practices
• Cloud Technologies
• Infrastructure as Code

Required Skills:

• Solid experience with administration and troubleshooting of Linux servers (rhel/ubuntu)
• Experience creating container-based solutions on an enterprise container platform (e.g. Rancher, OpenShift, Docker EE, Azure AKS)
• Proficiency with Kubernetes

Docker image builds

Repository management (Docker & Helm based)

Logging, monitoring and alerting

Kubernetes cluster networking implementation

Kubernetes cluster storage implementation

Kubernetes security

Kubernetes Ingress and load balancing

• Scripting/coding skills - Bash, Python, Golang or similar
• Desired State Configuration Tools - one of Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform or similar
• A very good understanding and experience with Networking - TCP/IP, routing, DNS, DHCP, Load balancers

Desired Skills

• Systems architecture, security and Disaster Recovery
• Good understanding of the CNCF landscape
• Creating CI/CD Pipelines for delivery

Additional information

Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you choose to join our business, we will provide you with (for all):

• Up to 20% yearly salary bonus - based on both individual and business performance
• Sick leave compensation
• 1 extra week of annual leave above your legal entitlement of 4 weeks, to support your well-being and family life
• Pension insurance contribution
• Cafeteria benefit system & Multisport card
• Training and Development Plan, supported by certified training and learning platforms like Udemy, Udemy Pro and LinkedIn
• Referral Bonus
• Flexible work time
• Hybrid opportunity: 3 days on-site work/week
• With our Tesco Colleague Clubcard you and your family can enjoy a 15% discount on in-store and online shopping
• Meal allowances
• Virtual doctor and Employee assistance program to support colleagues wellbeing

What our colleagues like the most at Tesco

• We develop our own products
• We make an impact; large scale of operation
• Accountability and respect are given to us
• We cooperate and support each other
• There are great colleagues who are divided into small teams here
• We can develop and learn new things

Join our team and be a part of building one of the biggest brands in the retail industry!

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