Lead Platform Engineer

Marks and Spencer
London
GBP 125,000 - 150,000
Job description

Summary

We are seeking a passionate Engineer who will provide technical expertise, support application lifecycles, and operate with excellence. Being creative, curious, and confident, you will be an integral part of our empowered, autonomous, cross-disciplinary engineering teams and will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust scalable data solutions on Microsoft Azure. Your expertise in cloud-based technologies and data management will be instrumental in optimizing data workflows and ensuring high data availability and reliability.

You will play a vital role in driving data-driven decision-making and shaping the organization's data infrastructure for future growth and success. Your passion for innovative technologies, attention to detail, and commitment to data excellence will be key in delivering high-quality data solutions.

What you'll do

  • Design and implement scalable, reliable, secure data platform infrastructure using Azure Services
  • Monitor and optimize performance of compute and storage solutions across the overall platform
  • Implement and be responsible for CI/CD deployments for data infrastructure and deployments
  • Monitor and be responsible for the cost of Azure resources and drive optimization opportunities
  • Continuously evaluate and adopt new tools and technologies to improve the data platform

Who you are

  • Articulable knowledge of Azure services, such as Data Lake Storage, Azure Compute, Azure Databricks
  • Demonstrable experience with DevOps practices, such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions for Infrastructure Automation
  • Understanding of security best practices in Azure, identity and access management, network security, and encryption
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to solve issues and optimize data solutions
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously and prioritize accordingly

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating, and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organization, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

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