Engineering Lead

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

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

Salary - up to £ £89,640 + annual bonus & benefits

Work Level - 2

Location – Edinburgh/Newcastle, Permanent

Office Attendance – Our hybrid working model gives you the best of both worlds - flexibility to work from home and valuable face-to-face time with colleagues. This role typically requires 2 days per week onsite.

Closing Date - Applications close on 1st October at 5pm

Why this role?

We're looking for a talented Engineering Lead to shape the future of our AWS Platform Engineering team, driving strategy, innovation and operational excellence.

This is a strategic and hands on leadership role responsible for defining and delivering the roadmap for our AWS platform. You'll lead a team of highly skilled platform engineers, ensuring our cloud services are secure, resilient, observable, and easy for engineering teams across the organisation to consume.

You’ll work closely with architecture, security, product, engineering, and operational teams to create a modern cloud platform that accelerates delivery while maintaining the highest standards of reliability, governance, and operational excellence.

As a leader, you'll balance technical strategy with people leadership, helping engineers grow while driving platform adoption and continuous improvement across the wider technology organisation.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead, develop and inspire a high-performing AWS Platform Engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, ownership and operational excellence.
• Define and deliver the AWS platform strategy and roadmap, aligning priorities and investment to business and technology objectives.
• Drive platform engineering best practices, including Infrastructure as Code, automation and self-service capabilities.
• Own AWS landing zones, cloud governance frameworks, guardrails and operational standards.
• Ensure the platform meets security, compliance, resilience, availability and scalability requirements.
• Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and third-party partners to support successful delivery and operational performance.
• Drive continuous improvement across cloud operations, reliability, observability, incident management, resilience testing and disaster recovery.
• Optimise cloud spend through effective FinOps practices, capacity management and cost-efficiency initiatives.

What we’re looking for (minimum criteria)

• Proven leadership of platform, cloud or infrastructure engineering teams within enterprise-scale AWS environments.
• Ownership of platform strategy, roadmaps, technology investment decisions and cloud cost optimisation (FinOps).
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Experience designing and operating resilient, secure, highly available cloud platforms, with deep knowledge of networking, IAM, AWS Organisations, Control Tower and security controls.
• Technical expertise across EKS/container platforms, CI/CD automation, platform APIs, self-service provisioning and observability solutions.
• Proven delivery of SRE practices, monitoring standards, operational telemetry and incident/service recovery management.
• Strong stakeholder and vendor management, building effective partnerships across engineering, architecture, security, business and senior leadership teams.
• Inspirational people leader who creates clarity and direction, fosters accountability, drives continuous improvement, makes data-driven decisions and develops high-performing teams.

We welcome applications from everyone. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you.

What’s in it for you

• A generous pension, with up to 7.5% employer contribution, depending on what you put in.
• Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service for you and your family
• Performance related annual bonus.
• 7.2 weeks holiday, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Colleague Clubcard discount (10-15% + second card to share with someone else).
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Opportunities to Save and Buy as you earn.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Interviews

As a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2), we’re committed to creating an accessible and supportive environment for all. We offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, including interviews, to ensure every candidate has a fair opportunity to succeed.

We also know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.

Interviews are expected to be held shortly after closing date.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centers are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.