Senior Systems Engineer

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

Salary - Salary is from £51,280 + annual bonus & benefits

Location – Edinburgh, Permanent

Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; however, you should be able to travel to our Edinburgh office 2 days per week for this position.

Closing Date – Applications close 4th December at 5pm

A chance to thrive

We’re looking for a Senior System Engineer to join our Core Banking Engineering team at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc. You’ll have the opportunity to work with a team of engineers supporting applications deployed in the cloud, including but not limited to the following services in AWS: Kubernetes Containers, EC2s, RDS, S3, EBS, EFS. This is a great time to join the team and contribute greatly to our ongoing success and future developments. An opportunity to shape how we approach the next stage in development and drive good practices within the team.

You will be working alongside a team of senior System engineers reporting to the Engineering Lead. There will be opportunities to pass on your knowledge and skillset to more junior colleagues, while furthering your own development and learning. Exposure to Agile methodologies would be beneficial as they are key to our way of working.

What you’ll be doing

• Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to provide an exceptional level of service.
• Manage and improve the services we provide using the tools available to move the team closer to reaching our wider long term technology goals.
• Balance managing service with ensuring the team meets its compliance requirements.
• Contributing to the team's wider goals while passing on your knowledge and experience to more junior members of the team.

We need you to have

• Experience with cloud based technologies, including AWS (Must). A good knowledge of building and running at scale within EC2, RDS and beyond is ideal.
• Hands on experience with deploying infrastructure as code, and automation. We currently use Jenkins as our pipeline tool.
• Experience working with vendors and stakeholders to provide a high level of service and service improvements.
• Experience of working with and supporting Windows Servers.

And if you have any of these, even better

• Experience with containerization technologies including Docker, Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Agile practices and ceremonies.
• Experience with Linux Operating system to a basic level.

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 increases 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.