Tesco Bank prides itself on their range of simple and convenient retail banking and insurance products designed specifically to meet the needs of Tesco customers. They believe that every little help makes a big difference, and by putting the customer first and rewarding their loyalty, they are offering something they believe every bank should.
AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.
We partner with Tesco Bank to support their contingent recruitment processes. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.
On behalf of Tesco Bank, AMS are now looking for a Senior Systems Engineer based in Edinburgh (2-3 days on site) for an initial contract length of 6 months.
About the Role:
Tesco Bank is seeking a highly skilled Senior Systems Engineer to join their Smarter Decisioning Platform team. You will play a key role within a specialist data engineering environment, ensuring reliable systems operations while contributing to the build, maintenance, and support of cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
This role will be part of the Data Move Team within the Decisioning department and will be closely involved with the File Transfer Gateway Platform, which supports all internal and external business file transfers. The team is currently focused on assessing existing infrastructure, decommissioning Legacy systems, establishing new enterprise data transfer capabilities, and delivering secure, reliable AWS-based file transfer solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
* Coordinate engineering activities and deliver high-quality technical solutions in partnership with the Product Team and key stakeholders.
* Ensure consistent and reliable system operations, including monitoring, incident response, and proactive service improvement.
* Build, maintain, and support cloud infrastructure within AWS and on-premise data centre environments.
* Contribute to the transformation of the file transfer gateway platform, including:
o Setting up new secure file transfer pipelines.
o Supporting migration and separation activities linked to divestment.
o Decommissioning Legacy components and establishing future-state architecture.
* Leverage automation (Infrastructure as Code and configuration management) to optimise processes and enhance service reliability.
* Lead and mentor engineers, promoting best practices and supporting capability development across the team.
* Act as a subject matter expert, contributing to architectural discussions and collaborating on long-term technical strategy.
Key Accountabilities, Skills & Experience
* Strong experience with AWS services such as EC2, RDS, IAM, and S3 (S3 especially relevant for file transfer operations).
* Proficiency in Scripting using Python, PowerShell, or Groovy.
* Hands-on experience with CI/CD workflows, ideally using Jenkins.
* Solid background with Infrastructure as Code, specifically Terraform.
* Experience with Configuration Management, ideally Ansible.
* Proven background in supporting production systems, troubleshooting, monitoring, and incident management.
* Ability to lead technical direction, coach team members, and drive engineering improvements.
Desirable Skills (Nice to Have)
* Containerisation knowledge (Docker, Kubernetes).
* Experience with secure enterprise file transfer tools:
o IBM Sterling File Gateway
o IBM Secure Proxy
o IBM Connect:Direct
o IBM MQ
Why Tesco Bank?
At Tesco Bank everyone is welcome, we value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger in achieving our goals. 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.
Next Steps:
If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and we will contact you with an update in due course.
Our client will only accept workers operating via an Umbrella or PAYE engagement model.
Please note that for the duration of this assignment you will be working as an external resource engaged by AMS.