About Us
We are Ocado Technology and we empower global grocery retailers with cutting-edge cloud, robotics, AI, and IoT. Our Ocado Smart Platform (OSP) powers highly automated Customer Fulfilment Centres (CFCs), enabling efficient, single-pick online grocery delivery.
The Data Platform team is responsible for foundational tooling that supports scalable, secure, and efficient data workflows. Building on top of our Data Intelligence Platform, their work enables consistent environment management, reliable pipeline orchestration, and supports the broad adoption of industry-standard tools for data transformation and quality monitoring.
The team will also be responsible for capabilities that accelerate the path to production for data products and enable more effective and secure data sharing with partners - helping Ocado Technology meet partner data, analytics, and machine learning needs, and supporting decision making to drive partner growth.
- Maintain and improve a live slot-availability application used directly by customers, including its reliability and performance.
- Write and evolve infrastructure as code (Terraform/OpenTofu) for the cloud environments the platform runs on.
- Support and extend backend services, APIs, and data pipelines that feed the wider 6RS analytics and reporting platform.
- Modernise the platform by untangling technical debt and tuning Airflow/Composer (right-sizing pools, setting K8s resource requests, and optimizing DAGs).
- Take part in monitoring, alerting, and incident response so issues are caught before customers feel them.
- Work closely with a small, distributed team and other engineering groups across Ocado Group.
- Solid software engineering experience in Python.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, or similar like Ansible/CloudFormation) on GCP or another major cloud provider.
- Comfortable with core DevOps practices—source control workflows, CI/CD, and thinking about deployment strategy rather than just following one.
- Comfort working across the stack: happy moving between application code, pipelines, and infrastructure in the same week.
- A pragmatic, ownership-minded approach—able to pick up ambiguous problems, juggle workstreams, and adapt as priorities shift.
- Fluent written and spoken English, with hands-on exposure to: Python, TypeScript, Terraform, GCP, BigQuery, Airflow, CI/CD, and PostgreSQL.
- TypeScript/Node.js experience—some services on the platform are written in it.
- Hands-on experience with Airflow (or another orchestrator) beyond writing DAGs—tuning scheduler pools, resource allocation, and diagnosing slow pipelines.
- Exposure to dbt, BigQuery, or other cloud data-warehouse tooling.
- An understanding of core security principles (least privilege, separation of duties) and how they apply to real infrastructure.
- Comfortable working in Unix/Linux environments.
- Experience supporting a live, customer-facing production system.
What We Offer
We believe in supporting our people with meaningful, flexible benefits that prioritise well-being and work-life balance. Here’s a snapshot of what you can expect:
- Hybrid office attendance policy that sees you onsite 40% of your time
- 30 days of “Work from anywhere” program
- 30 days of annual leave
- Share plan program
- 150 EUR additional monthly allowance
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave policy
- Medical plan including health & dental coverage
- Life and disability insurance
Ocado Group is an equal opportunities employer and as such makes every effort to ensure that all potential employees are treated fairly and equally, regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, age, or disability or union membership status.
Skills Required
- Proven track record delivering scalable, reliable data engineering solutions using modern cloud-native tools and workflows (e.g. Grafana, Airflow, Terraform).
- Experience building or supporting shared data infrastructure components (orchestration frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code).
- Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration skills across engineering, product, and data functions.
- Pragmatic, delivery-focused mindset with emphasis on maintainability, security, and operational excellence in platform engineering.
- Experience mentoring other engineers or leading technical initiatives in a platform or data engineering context.
- Familiarity with Grafana, Airflow, BigQuery, and Terraform.
- Experience with GCP and AWS infrastructure and operations.
- Exposure to data quality tooling.
Ocado Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ocado Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Ocado Group.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity programs include free share awards after six months of service, with additional access to broad-based plans such as SIP, Sharesave, and ESPP in applicable regions.
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Flexible Benefits — Work arrangements often allow hybrid schedules and a limited work‑from‑anywhere allowance, alongside flexible leave options and discount schemes depending on role and location.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies cover birth, adoption, fostering and surrogacy, with returner coaching and additional flexible arrangements after leave where applicable.
Ocado Group Insights
What We Do
When our journey started, we were all about changing the way people shop for groceries. Nearly 20 years later, we’re a FTSE 100, client-focused business that provides services, technology, and automation to grocery e-commerce businesses around the world.
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