Tesco Insurance • Edinburgh - 2 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9FQ, United Kingdom • Permanent • Apply by 28-Nov-2025
About the role
Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
Salary £66,400 - £99,600 & Excellent Benefits.
Location - Edinburgh, Glasgow or Newcastle - Hybrid.
Office Attendance - Our roles are hybrid; you'll work in the office 2 days per week.
Closing Date - 28th November 2025.
Opportunity
We're looking for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join our Technology team within Tesco Insurance and Money Services.
It's an exciting time in our business. In your role you'll be a senior technical authority responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust infrastructure solutions across the organisation's technology estate. Please note this role is known as an Engineering Lead in Tesco Insurance and Money Services.
The Role
Reporting to the Principal Engineer, this role serves as a domain expert in one or more core infrastructure areas - such as cloud, networking, compute, or storage, while maintaining a strong working knowledge across adjacent domains.
The Lead Infrastructure Engineer ensures that infrastructure services are secure, scalable, and compliant with regulatory requirements (e.g., FCA, PRA, GDPR). They lead engineering efforts, mentor junior engineers, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver resilient and efficient platforms. The Lead Infrastructure Engineer will deputise for the Principal Infrastructure Engineer and will, where required, assume leadership responsibilities, ensuring continuity of technical direction, decision‑making, and stakeholder engagement.
You’ll need (min experience)
* Deep expertise in at least one infrastructure domain (e.g., network, EUC, security) with strong working knowledge of other infrastructure domains to support cross‑functional collaboration.
* Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS), infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM), and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, PowerShell).
* Proven ability to lead technical delivery, mentor engineering teams and represent infrastructure in architectural forums.
* Experience in incident response, root cause analysis, and performance tuning.
* Experience implementing secure infrastructure solutions with auditability and access controls.
What’s in it for you?
* Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
* Private Healthcare and Virtual GP Service 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.
* Benefit from our Colleague Clubcard – a 10% discount that increases 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 8‑week paid paternity leave.
* Take advantage of ongoing learning opportunities and award‑winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
* Take part in our Buy‑as‑you‑Earn and Save‑as‑your‑Earn share schemes.
Everyone's welcome
We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves. 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.
Additional Information
We also know the importance of balancing work with life's other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we're committed to exploring part‑time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.
Interviews –
Commencing early December 2025.
Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?
Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.
How to apply
If you're interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!
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