Job Description

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General information

Ref #

9346

Location

Edinburgh

Department

BAR - Engineering

Business Area

Engineering

Working time

Full-Time

Date Published

03-07-2025


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

Salary -

from 28,360 to 44,080 + Benefits

Location -

Glasgow or Edinburgh, Permanent

Office Attendance -

Our roles are hybrid. You must be within commutable distance to either office, as you may be required to attend at short notice. You should be able to travel to either Edinburgh or Glasgow for at least

2 days

per week for this position

Closing Date -

Applications close 17th of July, interviews will be held immediately

A career that works for you

We're looking for an

Associate System Engineer

to join our API Platform team.


We have an exciting opportunity to join our API System Engineering team and work with a team of talented System Engineers that support the API platform. You will contribute to the build, test, support and delivery of infrastructure upgrades and software currency uplifts to ensure that we maintain platform improvements. Whilst also collaborating with your fellow engineers to deliver a stable and up-to date platform to our customers. You'll be key in delivering features through route to live changes in an Agile way of working This role will aid and improve your use of cloud technologies but you will also get an understanding of the Java-based API platforms that you will be supporting as they are a key integration layer of the Bank. 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 opportunities to improve their teams and our wider engineering community.
We're here to go the extra mile for our customers, and we'll be here for you too, ensuring you can build on your skills and forge a career of achievement.

What you'll be doing

This role will be focused on helping us create and maintain the existing infrastructure and software currency within the API space. Working on various technologies from AWS/Ansible/Bash/Python/Terraform, our platform runs on AWS with using Jenkins CI/CD pipelines. Using Datadog/Splunk for logging/monitoring capabilities. We are looking for people with experience or at least some knowledge in these areas. Being involved with the development of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Application as Code (AaC). Ensuring the API platform is kept up to date with patching and removing vulnerabilities when discovered within the SLA period. Working alongside Senior and Lead Engineers to aid your learning and development of cloud technologies. Contributing to embedding an agile mindset and approach focused on improving outcomes.
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 at Tesco Bank.

We need you to have

A bachelor's degree in computer science, statistics or related field OR experience in a System engineer role. Terraform AWS Python Linux Github

And if you have any of these, even better

A desire for continuous improvement. An analytical and creative mindset with strong attention to detail. The ability and initiative to learn and research new concepts, ideas, and technologies quickly. The ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment. A curious mentality Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
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. 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 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.


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Why Tesco Bank?

Whether we're helping our customers or looking after our people, you'll find there's a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.


It means we put your wellbeing first and give you bags of support, training and development, so you can build the career that's right for you. It's about looking after each other with the same care that we give to our customers.


We've created an environment where everyone feels included, accepted and welcome. Which means you can bring your whole self to work every day and totally thrive at the same time.


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