General information Job Title Associate Systems Engineer - 22 Months FTC Ref 9412 Location Edinburgh Department BAR - Engineering Business Area Engineering 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 19th January at 5pm A chance to thrive We’re looking for an Associate Systems Engineer to join our Smarter Decisioning Platform team at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK 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 Good communication skills 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 Containerisation experience (Docker, Kubernetes) 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. Private Medical Insurance including GP Service scheme. Discretionary annual incentive (AVP level and above) Indulge in a holiday allowance of 28 days plus 8 prescribed bank holidays. Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous paid paternity leave. Take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want. 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. LI-LC2 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. Lovely. Say hello to life in Tesco Bank.