Systems Engineer III (Storage &Backup)

Tesco Plc; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in the UK is looking for a Mid-Senior level Infrastructure Engineer to design and operate infrastructure platforms. The role includes collaborating with development teams, driving innovation, and defining standards. Candidates should have strong knowledge of OS functionality, storage management, and scripting capabilities, with a competitive benefits package including an annual bonus and private medical insurance.

Benefits

Annual bonus scheme

25 days holiday plus personal day

Private medical insurance

26 weeks maternity leave at full pay

Free virtual GP service

Qualifications

• Knowledge of backups, capacity planning, disaster recovery, and file system management.
• Ability to configure SAN infrastructures and develop complex scripting logic.
• Strong verbal communication and effective problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate infrastructure platforms for development teams.
• Create automation for controlled infrastructure consumption.
• Drive infrastructure innovation and define standards.

Skills

OS related functionality

Storage replication software

SAN infrastructure configuration

Enterprise backup and recovery

Scripting logic development

Verbal communication

Analytical problem solving

Tools

HP Storage

NetApp Storage

Brocade SAN Directors

Cisco SAN Directors

Object Storage

Veeam Technologies

Scripting Capabilities

Job description

Overview

About the role The Infrastructure Engineering team design, develop and operate all infrastructure used by Tesco Technology across data centres, offices, stores and distribution centres. This encompasses private and public cloud, connectivity, end-user computing, CI/CD and monitoring toolkit. This includes both third-party and internally developed infrastructure applications and infrastructure that support the wider Tesco business.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops and operates the Infrastructure platforms that allow development teams and business colleagues to consume infrastructure.
• Designs, develops and operates the automation to allow Infrastructure platforms to be consumed in a controlled, auditable and repeatable manner.
• Setting the strategy, objectives and high-level plans for infrastructure.
• Works with development teams to collaborate in creating appropriate infrastructure solutions.
• Evaluating partners, software and hardware and finding the right mix to deliver the strategy.
• Driving innovation at Tesco through infrastructure transformation.
• Defining and overseeing standards and simplification across the estate.
• Designing, delivering and operating new and reusable infrastructure solutions.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Knowledge of various OS related functionality including, but not limited to Backups, Capacity Planning, Disaster Recovery, and File System Management.
• Knowledge and experience with storage replication software, SAN switches, Storage Virtualization and storage management software/hardware.
• Ability to configure SAN infrastructures.
• Knowledge of enterprise backup and recovery hardware/software.
• Ability to develop complex scripting logic.
• Strong verbal communication and technical writing skills.
• Effective analytical and problem-solving skills.

Essential Technologies

• HP Storage (XP/Alletra / 3PAR)
• NetApp Storage
• Brocade & Cisco SAN Directors
• Object Storage
• Veeam Technologies
• Scripting Capabilities

What’s in it for you?

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you - both in and out of work.

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 year’s service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay; 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About Us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer’s favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is: ’Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers; it means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. We’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

We offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, with blended office and remote working. Our offices remain hubs for connection, collaboration and innovation.

Job details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Information Technology
• Industries: Retail

Location information and additional postings are available upon request.