AWS Platform Engineering Lead — Hybrid (Edinburgh/Newcastle)

Tesco Insurance; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension (up to 7.5% employer contrib)

Private Medical Insurance

Annual bonus

22+ days holiday (plus ability to buy)

Staff discount

Parental leave

Learning & development

Flexible working

Job summary

Tesco Insurance in Edinburgh is seeking an Engineering Lead for the AWS Platform Engineering team. You will shape the cloud strategy, deliver the roadmap, and lead a skilled team to build secure, resilient, and observable cloud services used across the organisation.

You'll partner with architecture, security, product, and operations to enable fast delivery with strong governance, reliability, and cost discipline. This hybrid role blends technical leadership with people leadership.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of platform, cloud or infrastructure teams in AWS environments.
• Ownership of platform strategy, roadmaps and cloud cost optimisation (FinOps).
• Expertise in IaC with Terraform and CloudFormation.

Responsibilities

• Lead AWS Platform Engineering team; foster innovation and operational excellence.
• Define and deliver the AWS platform strategy and roadmap.
• Drive IaC, automation and self-service capabilities.
• Own AWS landing zones, governance frameworks and guardrails.
• Ensure security, resilience, availability and scalability.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, product and operations.
• Drive continuous improvement in cloud operations and incident management.
• Optimise cloud spend with FinOps and capacity management.

Skills

Leadership

AWS Platform

FinOps

Security

Observability

Stakeholder management

Terraform

CloudFormation

EKS

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

CI/CD tooling

Observability tools

Job description

Tesco Insurance in Edinburgh is seeking an Engineering Lead for the AWS Platform Engineering team. You will shape the cloud strategy, deliver the roadmap, and lead a skilled team to build secure, resilient, and observable cloud services used across the organisation.

You'll partner with architecture, security, product, and operations to enable fast delivery with strong governance, reliability, and cost discipline. This hybrid role blends technical leadership with people leadership.