DevOps Engineer (Platform Team - Customer APIs)
Tesco Technology
About the role
The Customer APIs team builds high-scale, high-performance services that power customer profile data across Tesco. We design secure, reliable and efficient APIs that drive not only all retail journeys but also personalised communication for our customers. By joining our team, you will be able to build a common infrastructural backbone for the whole area.
What is in it for you
Hybrid working
We know life looks a little different for each of us. That's why at Tesco, we always welcome chats about different flexible working options. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, adapting to parenthood, or something else. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
This role requires you to be based in or near Kraków, as you will spend 60% (3 days) of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely.
Our benefits
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:
Up to 20% yearly salary bonus - based on both individual and business performance
Permanent contract from the go - as a sign of our trust in your abilities
Tax-deductible expenses (IP)
Private healthcare (LuxMed)
Cafeteria & Multisport
Additional 4 days of paid leave to support your well-being and family life
Increase in annual leave (from 20 to 25 days) for those not yet eligible for the full holiday entitlement
Learning opportunities - certified technical training and a learning platform (Udemy)
Back-to-school day - 1 day off for parents of primary school children
Fertility leave - up to 2 weeks of paid leave for IVF treatment
Sports activities with a personal trainer in the office
Referral bonus
MacBook as your work tool
If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you.
You will be responsible for
Key responsibilities:
We operate in a DevOps philosophy. We take responsibility for the software through its entire lifecycle. We practice continuous integration, delivery, and support of our code through to production and beyond.
As a DevOps Engineer, you'll be part of an agile and industry-leading team of engineers at Tesco. You will be creating the future continuous integration and delivery tools for our area, solving problems, and developing new features through quality, scalable, performant, and maintainable technical solutions.
Leveraging on tools like Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and others, and services like Azure Cloud, Azure DevOps, you will be responsible for the success of many other talented engineers on their journey to deliver high-quality, performant applications.
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:
· Focus on continuous integration and continuous delivery,
· Work with other teams in our area to move towards a common infrastructure,
· Be a coder; review and contribute clean code,
· Contribute to the definition of features for the common infrastructure for over 50 engineers,
· Effectively communicate and work with teams to support the delivery of cross-area infrastructure changes,
· Proactively mentor the rest of the team and help with hiring.
You will need
· 4+ years of commercial experience building continuous integration and delivery solutions
· Experience in running and supporting software in production (using the DevOps approach)
· Experience with Azure
· Problem-solving, analysis, and computational skills. You are comfortable designing systems and reasoning about them.
· When tackling problems, you take a thorough and logical approach to solving them, and you retain ownership through to resolution.
· Designing and developing systems for high availability and scalability
· Awareness and willingness to work on cross-area security initiatives,
· Experience working within an e-commerce or at-scale business where security, availability, and reliability are valued
· Depth of professional software engineering experience and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
Technology stack which we are using:
· Integration Tools: Kafka, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs
· Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
· Cloud: Azure
· Databases: NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Cosmos DB.
· Monitoring and Logging Tools: Splunk, New Relic
· CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Argo CD
· Others: Git, Nexus, IntelliJ, SNYK, SonarQub
About us
Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.
At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you.
Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.
Want to get to know us better?
Watch our team talk about our culture - YouTube
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
Discover how our colleagues shape Tesco's tomorrow
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