Junior Azure Cloud Engineer (SAP)

at  Greggs

About the role

• Management Grade A
• This is a full-time role, however flexibility in this will be considered
• We know that having a work-life balance is important, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role
• The base location for this role is Greggs House, Newcastle-upon-Tyne although there will be some opportunity to work from home
• Core hours are office hours Monday to Friday. We also operate a rota to cover out of hours support for major incidents

What you’ll do

• Reporting into the Senior Azure Cloud Engineer (SAP) your day-to-day workload will involve:
• Manage and administer the Microsoft Azure cloud environment hosting SAP technologies, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security)
• Collaboratively develop and implement robust security best practises using Microsoft technologies (landing zones, firewall rulesets, NSGs, ASGs, root certificate authority) with internal/external parties (e.g. penetration testing)
• Review and maintain highly available, multi-region solutions within Microsoft Azure
• Introduce technical changes into the environment using a structured approach that minimizes risk and achieves high reliability, availability and performance
• Develop and run infrastructure as code (IaC) pipelines leveraging cloud native tooling to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments
• Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards
• Develop monitoring dashboards and implement alerting for critical processes using Azure tooling
• Review and administer policy driven data protection best practices to ensure cloud solutions are protected from data loss
• Participate in the planning and implementation of O/S patching using WSUS and CVE remediation

About you

You will fit right into this role if you:

• Are a strong team player, able to build good working relationships at all levels
• Have proven high levels of accuracy and attention to detail
• Have experience of, and the ability to multi-task and work with multiple priorities calmly and at pace
• Are results focused with strong planning, prioritising and organisation skills
• Are self-motivated with the ability to work under pressure and using own initiative
• Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience of analysing information and issues to identify current and potential problems and develop and implement workable solutions
• Able to engage and work collaboratively with other teams to make improvements to processes and influence stakeholders at all levels
• Enjoy being part of a hard-working team, sharing the same end goal, and celebrating results together
• Are supportive of an inclusive culture – recognising and valuing that difference is good
• Want to develop and are ready to work alongside some great people and have lots of fun on your Greggs journey!

About Greggs
Here at Greggs, we love what we do, and we have fun! What makes Greggs so special is our culture – the way we are, the way we behave and the way we support each other. We’re hard-working, but above all else we’re family; and it doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from or what your favourite bake is, we’d love you to join us! We want everyone to feel welcome at Greggs and our colleagues to be able to be themselves at work, whatever their background, preferences, or views.
Vacancy Information
We have a fantastic opportunity to join Greggs as a Junior Azure Cloud Engineer (SAP). Working with the Senior Azure Cloud Engineer (SAP) within the SAP Technical team you will be pivotal in the provisioning and ongoing support of enterprise SAP environments within the Azure ecosystem.
You will be joining the team at a time of transformation as we deliver next-generation SAP systems hosted in Azure to the business, making this the ideal opportunity to develop the technologies and infrastructure that you will be supporting in BAU. You will also oversee the design, maintenance and monitoring of systems using Azure capabilities, as well as configuring hybrid connectivity between on-site systems and the cloud environment.
The base location for this role is our Head Office in Newcastle Upon Tyne, although there will be some flexibility to work from home.

We can offer you:

• 25 days (5 weeks) annual leave, pro-rated, increasing with service (in addition to bank holidays), plus 1 additional floating day
• Management Bonus Scheme which is worth up to 10% of your salary
• Profit share: We want everyone to share in the success of the business, so we distribute 10% of our profits to all our employees who have at least 6-month service, or more, each year
• Private Medical Insurance which is free for you and subsidised for your dependants
• Permanent Health Insurance which is a replacement income scheme
• You will automatically join our Greggs pension scheme which is a fantastic way to save for your retirement and allows you to benefit from employer contributions and tax advantages
• Defined contribution management pension scheme
• Death in service benefit which provides a lump-sum payment equal to 4 times your year’s salary
• Colleague discount, up to 50% off our own-produced products
• Sharesave schemes that let you buy discounted Greggs shares, by saving a set amount of money over a fixed time, to have an even bigger share of our profits
• Career progression and learning and development
• Employee Assistance Programme; A free, confidential helpline, offering advice and support with financial, relationship, work-related and wellbeing issues, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Including a mobile app providing a range of wellness content on physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing
• Perks and savings, such as digital gift card discounts, online cashback, in-store and online coupons and lifestyle offers
• Cycle to Work scheme
• A company who cares about our communities; the environment and being a better business! Click here to read about The Greggs Pledge
• Colleague Networks – internal groups where colleagues and their allies can share their own experiences, offer feedback on the way we do things at Greggs, and provide support to one another

About the role

• Management Grade A
• This is a full-time role, however flexibility in this will be considered
• We know that having a work-life balance is important, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role
• The base location for this role is Greggs House, Newcastle-upon-Tyne although there will be some opportunity to work from home
• Core hours are office hours Monday to Friday. We also operate a rota to cover out of hours support for major incident

What you’ll do

• Reporting into the Senior Azure Cloud Engineer (SAP) your day-to-day workload will involve:
• Manage and administer the Microsoft Azure cloud environment hosting SAP technologies, including provisioning, configuration, performance monitoring, policy governance and security)
• Collaboratively develop and implement robust security best practises using Microsoft technologies (landing zones, firewall rulesets, NSGs, ASGs, root certificate authority) with internal/external parties (e.g. penetration testing)
• Review and maintain highly available, multi-region solutions within Microsoft Azure
• Introduce technical changes into the environment using a structured approach that minimizes risk and achieves high reliability, availability and performance
• Develop and run infrastructure as code (IaC) pipelines leveraging cloud native tooling to ensure automated and consistent platform deployments
• Ensure all infrastructure components meet proper performance and capacity standards
• Develop monitoring dashboards and implement alerting for critical processes using Azure tooling
• Review and administer policy driven data protection best practices to ensure cloud solutions are protected from data loss
• Participate in the planning and implementation of O/S patching using WSUS and CVE remediatio

You will fit right into this role if you:

• Are a strong team player, able to build good working relationships at all levels
• Have proven high levels of accuracy and attention to detail
• Have experience of, and the ability to multi-task and work with multiple priorities calmly and at pace
• Are results focused with strong planning, prioritising and organisation skills
• Are self-motivated with the ability to work under pressure and using own initiative
• Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience of analysing information and issues to identify current and potential problems and develop and implement workable solutions
• Able to engage and work collaboratively with other teams to make improvements to processes and influence stakeholders at all levels
• Enjoy being part of a hard-working team, sharing the same end goal, and celebrating results together
• Are supportive of an inclusive culture – recognising and valuing that difference is good
• Want to develop and are ready to work alongside some great people and have lots of fun on your Greggs journey