General information

Job Title
Senior Systems Engineer
Ref #
9567
Location
Edinburgh - 2 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9FQ
Department
IMS - Engineering
Business Area
Engineering
Working time
Full-Time
Date Published
22-06-2026

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

Salary - Salary is up to £75,360 + annual bonus & benefits
Work Level - 2
Location - Edinburgh/Newcastle
Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; however, you should be able to travel to our offices as required.
Closing Date - Applications close 6th July at 5pm
 
We’re looking for a Senior System Engineer to join our Insurance Money and Services team. This is an exciting time to join as we spearhead a major strategic shift in our DevOps tooling.
 
As a Senior Engineer, you’ll not just manage tooling; you’ll take ownership of our infrastructure, applications, and end-to-end support model. This role is unique; it blends deep technical DevOps engineering with platform engineering.

You’ll act as a trusted vendor-supported platform champion, enabling and supporting developers, testers, and wider engineering teams. You’ll work alongside a collaborative team of platform specialists, reporting directly to the Engineer Lead, and collaborating closely with architecture and delivery stakeholders.
 
This position offers an unparalleled opportunity to design modern CI/CD ecosystems and directly influence our future ways of working.
 
What you’ll be doing
 
  • Lead Cloud Migration: Drive the migration of infrastructure and applications from legacy environments into our own cloud landing zones.
  • Own DevOps Tooling: Manage, optimize, and ensure the availability of our core toolset, including GitHub, GitHub Actions, Terraform libraries, Nexus, and Snyk.
  • Build CI/CD Pipelines: Design, develop, and maintain robust deployment pipelines to support rapid, secure project delivery across the organization.
  • Provide L3 Support: Act as the final technical escalation point for production applications delivered via our CI/CD toolset, ensuring rapid incident resolution.
  • Enable Engineering Teams: Provide platform support, consulting, and access management for developers and testers to accelerate their delivery.
  • Embed Security: Champion shifting security left by embedding Snyk vulnerability scanning and compliance checks into early code commit stages.
 
We need you to have (minimum experience)
 
  • CI/CD & Tooling Expertise: Proven experience managing enterprise DevOps tools, specifically GitHub Enterprise, GitHub Actions, and Nexus repository managers.
  • Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Strong commercial experience writing, modularising, and managing infrastructure using Terraform.
  • Cloud & Migration Experience: Hands-on experience building and supporting cloud landing zones, including migrating legacy infrastructure to native cloud accounts.
  • L3 Production Support: A background in supporting complex, live applications and troubleshooting infrastructure-related issues under an ITIL or Agile framework.
 
 
And if you have any of these, even better
 
  • DevSecOps Practice: Experience configuring automated vulnerability scanners like Snyk directly within development workflows.
  • Platform Engineering Mindset: Experience working in a "Platform-as-a-Product" team that services internal developer communities.
  • Scripting Skills: Proficiency in Bash, Python, or PowerShell to automate repetitive operational tasks.
  • Financial or Insurance Sector Experience: Familiarity with working inside highly regulated environments and adhering to strict compliance standards.
 
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 you and your family 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. 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 8-week paid paternity leave.
  • A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
  • Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your 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, 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.

Interviews
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 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, where they 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 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 Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!
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