Associate Systems Engineer - 22 Months FTC

Associate Systems Engineer – 22 Months FTC at Tesco Bank

Job Reference: 9412

Location: Edinburgh

Department: BAR – Engineering, Business Area: Engineering

Working time: Full-Time; Employment type: Full-time; Seniority level: Entry level; Job function: Information Technology; Industry: Banking

Date Published: 10-11-2025 | Closing Date: 19th January at 5pm

Salary: £29,360 – £40,000 + annual bonus & benefits

Office Attendance: Hybrid; 2 days per week in Edinburgh office

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

What You’ll Be Doing

• 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.
• Sharing knowledge with other engineers within the team to ensure best practices are followed.
• Contributing to embedding an agile mindset and approach focused on improving outcomes.

We need you to have

• Good communication skills.
• Thrives on solving problems.
• Tackling problems creatively.
• Passion for learning and self-development.

Understanding or experience in the following is preferential

• Experience in Linux and Windows Operating Systems.
• Experience in AWS (EC2, RDS, IAM, S3).
• Experience with scripting (Python, PowerShell, Groovy).

And if you have any of these, even better

• Containerisation experience (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with Terraform and Ansible.
• IBM MQ, IBM Connect Direct, IBM Sterling File Gateway, IBM Secure Proxy.
• Knowledge of SAFe and/or Agile practices.

What’s In It For You

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance including GP Service scheme.
• Discretionary annual incentive (AVP level and above).
• Indulge in a holiday allowance of 25 days plus 8 prescribed bank holidays.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, including enhanced maternity leave pay, shared parental leave policy, and generous paid paternity leave.
• Take advantage of ongoing learning opportunities and training.

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.