AWS Platform Engineering Lead — Hybrid (Edinburgh/Newcastle)

Tesco Insurance

City of Edinburgh

Hybrid

GBP 54,000 - 90,000

Full time

11 days ago
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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.

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