Senior Systems Engineer

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

Salary - Salary up to £75000 + annual bonus & benefits

Location - Edinburgh / Glasgow

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 4 th December at 5pm

A bank with a little more heart

We're looking for a Senior System Engineer to join our Core Banking Team at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc.

This role will be focused on joining a team of system engineers to automate the building, maintenance, operation and support a range of systems on cloud infrastructure withing AWS, that encompass most of our core banking applications.

• As a Senior System Engineer, you will work closely with the other senior engineers in the team to drive through service improvements, features and changes. You will work closely with junior engineers to help mentor and build their careers, while also influencing and working closely with engineering leads and principal engineers on our long-term technology goals
• Alongside being a pivotal part of a team supporting key banking applications, you will be a key part in both devising and implementing complex solutions while also acting as a subject matter expect within the wider platform team
• 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 be looking for out for opportunities to improve their teams and our wider engineering community.

What you'll be doing

• Collaborate with the team and stakeholders to provide an exceptional level of service
• Manage and improve the services we provide using the tools available to move the team closer to reaching out wider long term technology goals.
• Balance managing service with ensuring the team meets its compliance requirements.

We need you to have

• Experience with cloud based technologies, including AWS (Must). We are using AWS exclusively for now, a good knowledge of building and running at scale within EC2, RDS and beyond is ideal
• Hands on experience with deploying infrastructure as code, and automation. We currently use Jenkins as our pipeline tool.
• Experience working with vendors and stakeholders to provide a high level of service and service improvements.

And if you have any of these, even better

• Experience with containerization technologies including Docker, Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Agile practices and ceremonies.

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 for 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 (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.

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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.