Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Tesco Insurance; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance provider in the UK is looking for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join their Technology team. This role involves designing and maintaining robust infrastructure solutions while ensuring compliance and security standards. You'll lead engineering efforts, mentor junior engineers, and work in a hybrid model with 2 office days a week. Competitive salary and excellent benefits included.

Benefits

Private Healthcare

Performance-related annual bonus

Generous holiday allowance

Colleague Clubcard benefits

Ongoing learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in at least one infrastructure domain.
• Experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code.
• Ability to mentor engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing infrastructure solutions.
• Leading engineering efforts and mentoring junior engineers.
• Ensuring infrastructure services are secure and compliant.

Skills

Deep expertise in infrastructure domains

Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)

Proven ability to lead technical delivery

Incident response and performance tuning

Experience with automation tools (Ansible, PowerShell)

Tools

CloudFormation

Terraform

Job description

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

Salary & Benefits

£66,400 – £99,600 & Excellent Benefits

Location

Edinburgh, Glasgow or Newcastle – Hybrid

Office Attendance

Our roles are hybrid; you’ll work in the office 2 days per week.

Closing Date

28th November 2025

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. That means we always work with heart. Whether we’re helping our customers or looking after our people, you’ll find there’s a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.

Opportunity

We’re looking for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join our Technology team within Tesco Insurance and Money Services. It’s an exciting time in our business. In your role you’ll be a senior technical authority responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust infrastructure solutions across the organisation’s technology estate.

The Role

Reporting to the Principal Engineer, this role serves as a domain expert in one or more core infrastructure areas – such as cloud, networking, compute, or storage – while maintaining a strong working knowledge across adjacent domains. The Lead Infrastructure Engineer ensures that infrastructure services are secure, scalable, and compliant with regulatory requirements (e.g., FCA, PRA, GDPR). They lead engineering efforts, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver resilient and efficient platforms. The Lead Infrastructure Engineer will deputise for the Principal Infrastructure Engineer and will, where required, assume leadership responsibilities, ensuring continuity of technical direction, decision‑making, and stakeholder engagement.

You’ll Need (Min Experience)

• Deep expertise in at least one infrastructure domain (e.g., network, EUC, security) with strong working knowledge of other infrastructure domains to support cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS), infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM), and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, PowerShell).
• Proven ability to lead technical delivery, mentor engineering teams and represent infrastructure in architectural forums.
• Experience in incident response, root cause analysis, and performance tuning.
• Experience implementing secure infrastructure solutions with auditability and access controls.

What’s in it for you?

• Prepare for retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Healthcare and Virtual GP Service 365 days a year.
• Performance‑related annual bonus.
• Generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Colleague Clubcard benefits – 10% discount increasing to 15% on every payday and a second card to share.
• Family‑oriented initiatives: enhanced maternity leave pay, shared parental leave policy, and 8‑week paid paternity leave.
• Ongoing learning opportunities and award‑winning training to help you achieve the job and career you want.
• Buy‑as‑you‑Earn and Save‑as‑you‑Earn share schemes.

Everyone’s Welcome

We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. We’re committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, valuing the richness and diversity this brings. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Additional Information

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

Commencing early December 2025.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling. We help our colleagues and serve our customers, communities and planet a little better every day. We get to feel it all the time. We do things better – not just for others, but for you too. It’s why you’ll get bags of choice, plenty of development, and a workplace where everyone’s welcome. If you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you’ve found it.

Our Story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice – because 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 make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online, but speaking to our customer service staff when you need to is important. That’s why our customer service centres 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 and can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

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 work 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 Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!