Lead Cloud Engineer

Who We Are:

Abel & Cole has pioneered organic, ethical and sustainable food delivery for over 30 years. Doing things better is our bread and butter; from saving over 60 million plastic bags by using reusable boxes for our food deliveries, to finding alternatives to plastic long before it hit the headlines. We are forever challenging ourselves to find the most positive way to do business and want everyone to eat organic because it’s one way to save the future. It’s these values that enabled us to become B Corp certified; an optional audit we’ve gone through to recognise how we put people and planet before profit, as well as help us find room for further improvement.

We’re looking for more people to join our team of almost 600, to share our passion for doing the right thing even bigger and better than we do already. In a fast paced and competitive market, we know it’s our people who make the difference. We’ve learnt how important it is to recognise, develop and promote from within; and that trusting people lets them come up with the best ideas and that helps our entrepreneurial spirit to thrive.

Summary:

Abel & Cole technology is going through an exciting period of transformation and modernisation. This includes several strategic programmes to deliver the amazing technology and business solutions to support our ambitious growth plans.

At the heart of these plans is the move from a monolithic to composable application stack built on Microsoft Azure’s Public Cloud.

Our technology is collectively built, deployed, and managed by development, platform, and service teams in an Agile environment. Engineers are encouraged to actively take part in, contribute to and, over time, strengthen these collaborative relationships.

What You’ll Be Doing:

As Cloud Engineering lead, you will use your skills across a variety of business domains, to modernise the application hosting platform, transform existing and build new software products within a composable architecture.

Applying DevOps principles, you will:

Independently or in collaboration with others, to build applications and cloud infrastructure solutions as part of a cross functional team.
Lead a cloud engineering chapter of excellence providing subject matter expertise for Cloud hosted applications and infrastructure, Software Development Lifecycle, and Dev/Sec/Ops.
Leading and motivating a small team of engineers, guiding their development, attending to their performance and welfare needs.
Ensure existing applications and infrastructure continue to operate at expected service levels and is maintained in line with best practice.
Work closely with all teams to ensure all systems are available, performant, and secure.
Work closely with Product, Delivery, and business teams to ensure solutions are designed and implemented in line with business strategy and objectives.
Contribute to the resolution of in and out of hours critical service outages, including communication with the business, 3rd parties and associated reporting.
Mentor members of the engineering teams in Microsoft PaaS (Platform as a Service) & IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) technologies, infrastructure lifecycle management, DevOps and security principles.
Assist Technology Principals with solution design and the development of a technology roadmap, principles, and practices.

About You:

You have an ability to understand a business opportunity, or problem, and transform it into a technology solution either independently or in collaboration with others.
You may have experience of overseeing e-commerce platforms and component driven architecture, or at least willing to learn more about them
Experience leading or line managing small engineering teams, including performance management and skills development.
Subject matter expertise in Microsoft Azure identity and governance concepts and technologies, including management groups, subscriptions, RBACs, Azure policies, PIM and security.
Strong knowledge of and experience designing, deploying, and maintaining Azure PaaS technologies specifically App Services, Function Apps, Service Bus, Azure SQL databases, and Azure Container Services.
Deep understanding and working knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) in an Agile environment, including DevOps principles.
A strong grasp of CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps or Octopus Deploy and infrastructure as code techniques and tools such as Azure Bicep and Terraform.
Working knowledge of security concepts including zero trust, defence in depth, separation of duties, principle of least privilege and techniques for addressing modern cyber security landscape.
Working knowledge of CDNs, Web Application Firewalls, Reverse Proxy, and other edge (layer 7) performance and security tools.
Experience developing software using Microsoft .Net and C# languages.

This is predominately a remote based role however you will need to be onsite once per month.

Want To See More

Check us out at: www.abelandcole.co.uk, https://bcorporation.net/directory/abel-cole, and Instagram

Abel & Cole promotes equal opportunities for all employees. We want our employees to feel they can be themselves at work and develop their talents to the full. Members of staff are expected to take personal responsibility for keeping our workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and bullying - a place where everyone is treated fairly and respectfully.

To support Abel & Cole’s commitment to inclusion and diversity, we ask that you remove all personal details from your CV. This includes removal of home address, D.O.B and place of education.