Associate Systems Engineer

Tesco Bank; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank in the UK is seeking an Associate Systems Engineer to join their Smarter Decisioning Platform team. In this role, you will work with data engineers to support cloud infrastructure operations. Key responsibilities include ensuring system reliability and leveraging automation. Ideal candidates will have experience in AWS and a passion for problem-solving. Training and development opportunities are provided, along with a competitive salary and benefits including a performance bonus and generous holiday allowance.

Benefits

Colleague pension scheme

Virtual GP Service

Performance related annual bonus

Generous holiday allowance

Colleague Clubcard discount

Enhanced maternity leave pay

Generous paternity leave

Ongoing learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Understanding or experience in Linux and Windows Operating Systems.
• Experience in AWS (EC2, RDS, IAM, S3).
• Experience with Scripting (Python, Powershell, Groovy).

Responsibilities

• Ensuring reliable and high levels of system operations.
• Leveraging automation for process improvement.
• Sharing knowledge with other engineers.

Skills

Problem-solving

Creative thinking

Passion for learning

Tools

AWS (EC2, RDS, IAM, S3)

Linux

Windows Operating Systems

Python

Powershell

Groovy

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Ref #

9412

Location

Edinburgh

Department

Business Area

Working time

Full-Time

Date Published

10-11-2025

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

Salary - Between £29,360 – £40,000 + annual bonus & benefits

Location – Edinburgh, 22 Month FTC

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 24th Nov at 5pm

A chance to thrive

We’re looking for an Associate Systems Engineer to join our Smarter Decisioning Platform team at Tesco Bank

This role will be focused on joining a team of data engineers to ensure reliable systems operations and being involved in the building, maintenance, operation, and support of a range of cloud infrastructure within AWS and in our data centres. This includes working with Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management to develop and manage our core services.

As an Associate Systems Engineer, we will invest in training and ensuring you work closely with experienced engineers to help shape a rewarding career.

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.

What you’ll be doing

• 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.
• Sharing knowledge with other engineers within the team to ensure best practices are followed .
• Contribute to embedding an agile mindset and approach focused on improving outcomes.

We need you to have

• Thrives on solving problems
• Tackling problems creatively
• Passion for learning and self-development

Understanding or experience in the following is preferential:

• Experience in Linux and Windows Operating Systems
• Experience in AWS (EC2, RDS, IAM, S3)
• Experience with Scripting (Python, Powershell, Groovy)

And if you have any of these, even better

• Experience with Terraform and Ansible
• IBM MQ, IBM Connect Direct, IBM Sterling File Gateway, IBM Secure Proxy
• 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.
• 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 8-week 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.
• Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as you Earn share schemes.

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?

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.