General information Job Title: Systems Engineer
Ref #: 9385
Location: Edinburgh
Department: BAR - Engineering
Business Area: Engineering
Working time: Full-Time
Date Published: 05-09-2025
Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day. Permanent
Salary - Salary is from £38,720 + annual bonus & benefits
Location - Edinburgh
Office Attendance - Edinburgh office attendance, minimum 2 days per week
Closing Date – Applications close Friday 19th at 5pm
A career that works for you
We’re looking for a
System Engineer to our Core Banking team at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc.
Working within a team of system engineers to automate the build, maintenance, operation and support a range of cloud infrastructure within AWS and beyond. This encompasses some of our core colleague and customer-facing services.
Devops engineers work closely with the senior engineers and product owners on everyday challenges, while also assisting our lead and principal engineers on our longer term technology goals.
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
- You’ll build and support cloud-based solutions, improving practices working with a market leading technology stack.
- Working with vendors and architects on solution frameworks, performing cloud automation. Carrying out strategic improvements of multiple systems across environments maintaining desired security levels for services in the cloud.
- Working as part of an Agile team, closely collaborating with developers, analysts, and SMEs to maximise the quality of Tesco Bank’s products.
- You’ll devise and implement solutions, promote, implement, and collaborate to evolve our practice standards and patterns.
- With experience, act as a subject matter expert with architecture and product teams.
We need you to have: - Experience with cloud-based technologies, including AWS(Must), Azure. We’re using AWS exclusively for now.
- Experience with AWS products, Terraform/Chef/Puppet/Packer and Jenkins. We automate using a mix of Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Python and Bash, using Jenkins as our pipeline tool.
- Experience using RHEL Linux, confident navigating the command line and troubleshooting O/S and application related issues.
- Exposure to DevOps toolsets and CI/CD concepts.
And if you have any of these, even better
- Knowledge of Agile practises and ceremonies
- Understanding of containerisation technologies
- Scripting Knowledge in Bash or Python
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.
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.
Lovely.
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