Systems Engineer

Tesco Insurance; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension (up to 7.5% employer)

Virtual GP Service

Annual bonus potential

Holiday entitlement 7.2 weeks

Colleague Clubcard discount

Enhanced parental leave

Save As You Earn

Learning opportunities

Job summary

Tesco Insurance is seeking a Systems Engineer to design, build and run secure, scalable AWS platforms. The role emphasizes automation, security, and platform resilience for Tesco IMS services, with a hybrid work pattern and a 2-day onsite requirement.

You will work with cloud engineers, architects and partners to mature the environment, automate delivery, and ensure compliant operations across multiple AWS accounts.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience supporting and engineering AWS cloud environments.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of AWS networking and security services (VPCs, Route 53, Security Groups, IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling and cloud-based operational support practices.

Responsibilities

• Delivering secure, scalable and reliable AWS platform services for product teams.
• Improving platform consistency and deployment efficiency with IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Enhancing cloud security, identity management and governance controls.
• Strengthening platform reliability, monitoring and operational resilience via automation and observability.
• Collaborating with internal teams and suppliers to optimise performance, security and cost.
• Contributing to engineering standards, documentation, and best practices.

Skills

AWS cloud

CI/CD

Security

Networking

Observability

Automation

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

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

Systems Engineer – Permanent

Salary: From £38k + annual bonus & benefits

Work Level: 1

Location: Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Reigate

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 17 September at 5pm

Why this role?

As a Systems Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to build, support and continuously improve Tesco IMS's AWS cloud platform, helping to provide secure, scalable and reliable cloud services that enable product teams to deliver value faster. You'll work alongside internal engineering teams and strategic technology partners to enhance an existing platform through automation, security, infrastructure as code and operational excellence.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Tesco IMS as we continue to strengthen our cloud engineering capabilities and evolve our AWS platform. The platform has already been established with support from a third‑party partner, and we are looking for an engineer who can help us understand, improve and mature the environment while embedding engineering best practices across the organisation.

You will work on key initiatives including platform automation, infrastructure standardisation, cloud security improvements, networking enhancements, observability, and operational resilience. The role provides exposure to a broad range of AWS services and technologies while offering the opportunity to influence how cloud platforms are engineered and operated within Tesco IMS.

What makes this role particularly exciting is the opportunity to gain hands‑on experience across a complex enterprise AWS estate, working closely with experienced cloud engineers, architects, security specialists and technology partners to deliver improvements that directly benefit engineering teams and customers.

What you’ll be doing

• Delivering secure, scalable and reliable AWS platform services that enable product teams to build and operate applications effectively.
• Improving platform consistency and deployment efficiency through Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Enhancing cloud security, identity management and governance controls across AWS environments, helping to maintain compliance and reduce risk.
• Strengthening platform reliability, monitoring and operational resilience through automation, observability and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborating with internal teams and third‑party suppliers to identify opportunities to optimise platform performance, security and cost efficiency.
• Contributing to the development of engineering standards, documentation, reusable patterns and best practices that improve the overall maturity of the platform.

What we’re looking for: (minimum criteria)

• Hands‑on experience supporting and engineering AWS cloud environments, with a good understanding of core AWS services and platform operations.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of AWS networking and security services, including VPCs, Route 53, Security Groups, IAM, KMS and Secrets Manager.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling and cloud‑based operational support practices.

And if you have any of these, even better

• Experience working within multi‑account AWS environments, AWS Landing Zones or AWS Control Tower.
• Knowledge of container technologies and services such as ECS, EKS or Kubernetes.
• Experience integrating AWS environments with Microsoft Entra ID and exposure to Azure services or Microsoft Fabric.
• Experience within regulated industries such as financial services, insurance or banking.

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.
• 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 from early to mid September.

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.