Description
As an Engineering Manager at Sainsbury's, you will lead and coach talented engineering teams to deliver impactful solutions that drive efficiency and enhance performance across the business.
You will be responsible for:
- Leading and line managing the Red Bosun team, including coaching, performance, and hiring where needed
- Owning the platform's delivery, reliability, and operability through migration, in line with Cloud's PaaS direction
- Running on-call and incident management to 24/7 production standards
- Owning the platform's cloud costs and capacity planning, keeping spend efficient through migration
- Sharing Cloud's front door with the Head of Engineering and fellow Engineering Managers, triaging incoming requests, agreeing priorities with stakeholders, and routing work to the right teams
- Being a calm escalation point for operational, people, and engineering matters, resolving issues at the right level, and escalating what genuinely needs it
The ideal candidate will have:
- Significant experience as an Engineering Manager, including line management, coaching, and hiring
- Experience leading across more than one team or area of responsibility
- Strong working knowledge of PaaS or Kubernetes-based platforms on AWS and/or Azure
- Experience running 24/7 production services, including on-call and incident management
- Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders and third-party suppliers
Sainsbury's offers a range of benefits, including:
- Colleague discount of 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU, and Habitat after 4 weeks, increasing to 15% off at Sainsbury's every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day
- Pensions scheme and life cover
- Performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary
- Annual holiday allowance, with the option to buy additional holiday
- Season ticket loans, interest-free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance, and access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers
- Employee Assistance Programme and private healthcare
- Up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave