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Engineering Lead
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Posted:
22 September 2026 (16 hours ago)
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Application Deadline:
20 December 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
General information
Job Title
Engineering Lead
Ref #
9652
Location
Edinburgh - 2 South Gyle Crescent Edinburgh EH12 9FQ
Department
IMS - Engineering
Business Area
Engineering
Working time
Full-Time
Date Published
1
Serving our customers communities and planet a little better every day.
Salary - up to 89640 annual bonus & benefits
Work Level - 2
Location Edinburgh/Newcastle Permanent
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 1st October at 5pm
Why this role
Were looking for a talented Engineering Lead to shape the future of our AWS Platform Engineering team driving strategy innovation and operational excellence.
This is a strategic and hands on leadership role responsible for defining and delivering the roadmap for our AWS platform. Youll lead a team of highly skilled platform engineers ensuring our cloud services are secure resilient observable and easy for engineering teams across the organisation to consume.
Youll work closely with architecture security product engineering and operational teams to create a modern cloud platform that accelerates delivery while maintaining the highest standards of reliability governance and operational excellence.
As a leader youll balance technical strategy with people leadership helping engineers grow while driving platform adoption and continuous improvement across the wider technology organisation.
What youll be doing
Lead develop and inspire a high-performing AWS Platform Engineering team fostering a culture of innovation ownership and operational excellence.
Define and deliver the AWS platform strategy and roadmap aligning priorities and investment to business and technology objectives.
Drive platform engineering best practices including Infrastructure as Code automation and self-service capabilities.
Own AWS landing zones cloud governance frameworks guardrails and operational standards.
Ensure the platform meets security compliance resilience availability and scalability requirements.
Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and third-party partners to support successful delivery and operational performance.
Drive continuous improvement across cloud operations reliability observability incident management resilience testing and disaster recovery.
Optimise cloud spend through effective FinOps practices capacity management and cost-efficiency initiatives.
What were looking for (minimum criteria)
Proven leadership of platform cloud or infrastructure engineering teams within enterprise-scale AWS environments.
Ownership of platform strategy roadmaps technology investment decisions and cloud cost optimisation (FinOps).
Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code including Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
Experience designing and operating resilient secure highly available cloud platforms with deep knowledge of networking IAM AWS Organisations Control Tower and security controls.
Technical expertise across EKS/container platforms CI/CD automation platform APIs self-service provisioning and observability solutions.
Proven delivery of SRE practices monitoring standards operational telemetry and incident/service recovery management.
Strong stakeholder and vendor management building effective partnerships across engineering architecture security business and senior leadership teams.
Inspirational people leader who creates clarity and direction fosters accountability drives continuous improvement makes data-driven decisions and develops high-performing teams.
We welcome applications from everyone. If youre excited about this role but your experience doesnt align perfectly with every requirement wed still love to hear from you.
Whats in it for you
A generous pension with up to 7.5% employer contribution depending on what you put in.
Private Medical Insurance (WL2) and 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) were 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 lifes other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need as were 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.
Dont miss out. Were assessing applications throughout the recruitment process and may close this opportunity ahead of the closing date if we receive a high volume of applications.
Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services
Seeing your impact all around you: theres no better feeling.
Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others but for you too. Its why youll get bags of choice and plenty of development. Its why youll always be heard and find balance that works for you. Its why youll feel totally at home in a place where everyones welcome.
Lucky for us we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role were 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 youve worked hard for.
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 youve worked hard for.
Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others but for you too. Its why youll get bags of choice and plenty of development. Its why youll always be heard and find balance that works for you. Its why youll feel totally at home in a place where everyones welcome.
So if you want a career where you can do good and feel good youve found it.
Lets make everyday a little better.
Lets 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.
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 everyones welcome where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.
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.
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 everyones 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 youre interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like click apply to find out more!
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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