General information Job Title: Systems Engineer
Ref #: 9353
Location: Edinburgh
Department: BAR - Engineering
Business Area: Engineering
Working time: Full-Time
Date Published: 22-07-2025
Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day. Salary - Salary is from £38,720 + annual bonus & benefits
Location – Edinburgh, Permanent: Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid with 2 days per week in office for this position.
Closing Date – Applications close 29/07/2025 at 5pm
A career that works for you
We are looking for a
Systems Engineer to join our Smarter Decisioning Platform team.
This role will be focused on working with a team of system engineers (Associate/Senior and Lead) to build, maintain, operate and support a range of application installations and infrastructure across on-premises and cloud (AWS).
You’ll co-ordinate activity within your team, devise and implement complex solutions, promote, implement, and collaborate to evolve our practice standards and patterns, and act as a subject matter expert with architecture and product teams.
Our engineering culture is part of what makes us a great place to work, and we encourage all our engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices and always look for opportunities to improve their teams and our wider engineering community.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Coordinating activities and delivering technical solutions to our stakeholders with the Product Team.
- Ensuring reliable and high levels of system operations through monitoring and response to incidents.
- Leveraging automation including Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management to continually improve our processes and service operations targets.
- Devise and implement solutions, promote, implement, and collaborate to evolve our practice standards and patterns.
- Maintain and work against medium to long-term plans to improve automated Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines,
- Improve quality, feedback loops and boost productivity across teams in Agile Value Stream
- Contribute to embedding an agile mindset and approach focused on improving outcomes.
We need you to have
Experience with IBM MQ, WAS and HATs
And if you have any of these, even better: - Experience with AWS (EC2, S3,EFS, RDS, IAM)
- Experience with CI/CD workflows (We use Cloudbees as our pipeline tool)
- Experience with Terraform and Ansible
- Knowledge of SAFe and/or Agile practices
We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.
What’s In It For You
- Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
- Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service 365 days a year.
- Performance related annual bonus.
- Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
- Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
- Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous paid paternity leave.
- A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
Everyone’s welcome
We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
KP1
How to apply We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.
Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!
Why Tesco Bank? Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.
It means we put your wellbeing first and give you bags of support, training and development, so you can build the career that’s right for you. It’s about looking after each other with the same care that we give to our customers.
We’ve created an environment where everyone feels included, accepted and welcome. Which means you can bring your whole self to work every day and totally thrive at the same time.
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