System Engineer

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

1/6/2025

General information

Job Title: System Engineer

Ref #: 9266

Location: Edinburgh

Department: BAR - Engineering

Business Area: Engineering

Working time: Full-Time

Date Published: 06-01-2025

Closing date: 20-01-2025

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

Salary - Between £38,000 - £57000 plus annual bonus & benefits

Location Edinburgh ,Permanent

Office Attendance- Our roles are hybrid, however you should be able to travel to our Edinburgh office, 2 days per week for this position.

Closing Date – Applications close 20th January 5pm

A career that works for you

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to join our Smarter Decisioning Platform team at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc.

• This role will be focused on working with a team of system engineers (Associate/Senior and Lead) to build, maintain, operate and support a range of application installations and infrastructure across on-premises and cloud (AWS).
• You'll co-ordinate activity within your team, devise and implement complex solutions, promote, implement, and collaborate to evolve our practice standards and patterns, and act as a subject matter expert with architecture and product teams.
  
  

Our engineering culture is part of what makes us a great place to work, and we encourage all our engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices and always look for opportunities to improve their teams and our wider engineering community.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Coordinating activities and delivering technical solutions to our stakeholders with the Product Team.
• Ensuring reliable and high levels of system operations through monitoring and response to incidents.
• Leveraging automation including Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management to continually improve our processes and service operations targets.
• Devise and implement solutions, promote, implement, and collaborate to evolve our practice standards and patterns.
• Maintain and work against medium to long-term plans to improve automated Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines,
• Improve quality, feedback loops and boost productivity across teams in Agile Value Stream
• Contribute to embedding an agile mindset and approach focused on improving outcomes.
  
  

We need you to have

• Experience with Scripting (Python, Perl, Powershell, Groovy)
• Experience with CI/CD workflows (We use Jenkins as our pipeline tool)
• Experience with AWS Products (EC2, S3, IAM)
• Experience with Terraform and Ansible
  
  

And if you have any of these, even better

• Experience with Broadcom AutoSys Workload Automation / Job Scheduling
• Hands on experience with Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible
• Knowledge of SAFe and/or Agile practices
  
  

We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us.

What’s In It For You

• Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
• Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service 365 days a year.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase to 15% every payday (worth up to 2K). As an added perk, we’ll give you a second card to share with someone else.
• Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous paid paternity leave.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
  
  

Everyone’s welcome

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

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 are working 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 Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!

Why Tesco Bank?

We’re also a little obsessed with the future. Your future. Our future. That’s why we take development seriously; we want to help you thrive and evolve in your career. Tesco Bank is a place to get on, all colleagues have access to LinkedIn Learning and Abstract, from day one.

It’s important to us that we make sure you’re supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.

All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers’ and colleagues’ everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.