Engineering Lead

Tesco Insurance and Money Services; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 99,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 7.5% employer

Private Medical Insurance

Annual bonus

Holiday 7.2 weeks

Clubcard discount

Enhanced parental leave

Save and Buy scheme

Learning opportunities

Job summary

Tesco Insurance and Money Services in Edinburgh is seeking an Engineering Lead to shape the future of our AWS Platform Engineering team. You will drive strategy, lead a skilled group of engineers, and ensure the cloud services are secure, observable, and easy for internal teams to consume.

You will balance technical leadership with people management, deliver the roadmap, and foster a culture of innovation and operational excellence across architecture, security, product, and operations.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership of platform or cloud engineering teams.
• Ownership of platform strategy and cloud cost optimisation (FinOps).
• Experience with IaC using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Designing secure, highly available cloud platforms with networking, IAM, and governance.
• Strong stakeholder and vendor management.

Responsibilities

• Lead AWS Platform Engineering team to deliver excellence.
• Define and deliver AWS platform strategy and roadmap.
• Drive IaC, automation, and self-service capabilities.
• Own AWS landing zones, governance frameworks, guardrails and standards.
• Ensure security, resilience, availability, and scalability of the platform.
• Build relationships with internal stakeholders and partners for successful delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement in cloud operations, observability, and incident management.
• Optimise cloud spend through FinOps and cost-efficiency initiatives.

Skills

Platform leadership

Cloud strategy

Terraform

AWS security & IAM

SRE practices

FinOps / cost optimisation

Stakeholder management

Observability / telemetry

People leadership

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

EKS

CI/CD tooling

Job description

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

About the role

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.

Don't miss out. We're assessing applications throughout the recruitment process and may close this opportunity ahead of the closing date if we receive a high volume of applications.

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 plentiful 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 our customers. 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.