Systems Engineer – Platform Integration

What’s in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work!  These include but are not limited to:

• Annual bonus scheme
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (and bank holidays)
• Great colleague discounts and deals, saving you money on everyday purchases, utility bills for the home and more
• Retirement savings plan – save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
• Buy as you earn and Save as you earn share schemes
• Opportunities to get on – take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training to help you achieve the career you want

About the role

Are you an existing VMware, Linux or Windows Engineer looking to develop your automation skills?  Perhaps you have already developed basic scripts to automate tasks, or already have some experience with the VMware stack and want to develop skills in Aria automation? 

Tesco Technology are looking for a Platform Integration Engineer reporting into the Developer Tooling and Experience team. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated engineer who is looking to develop their skills in automation to help us integrate our Infrastructure API stack, whilst obsessively automating away operational burden. You will also be involved in building and developing standards and patterns for our engineering community.

You have ideally started to learn some scripting, coding or automation, along with strong platform skills.  The role will provide you with the opportunity to develop your skillset in automation and Infrastructure as Code, and opportunities to cross train in software development, DevOps and cloud native tech – the only limit is your desire to learn! 

You will be responsible for

Your role will have a focus on high availability, simplicity and scale, and you will need to be able to work comfortably within a collaborative, agile environment and using data to drive conversations and decisions.

This is an individual contributor role that does not require people management.

You will need

You’ll need to have demonstrated experience of:

• Working in an Agile team and can contribute to agile ways of working.
• Keen to cultivate a culture of collaboration, innovation and bringing industry standards to everything we do.
• It is important that you understand in depth at least one core component of infrastructure eg Windows, Linux, Networking and Storage & backup.
• Started to experiment with scripting to automate routine tasks.

Some desirable skills – but not essential if you have a thirst to learn:

• Knowledge of VMWare automation (vRA Aria, vRO)
• Proficient in 1 or more scripting languages eg Python, PowerShell, Typescript
• Exposure or understanding of CI/CD pipelines and how these feed into a micro services architecture.
• Experience of working within a DevOps, Cloud or SRE type function, with a focus on availability, reliability and automation
• Experience designing and working with fault tolerant, highly available, high traffic/throughput, distributed, scalable systems.
• Any knowledge or exposure consuming or working with REST API’s
• Any knowledge or exposure to containerisation platforms like Kubernetes (Tanzu or AKS).
• Any knowledge or exposure to Chef, Ansible, Jenkins or Terraform.

Personal

• You work in a collaborative way and are comfortable working with a wide range of colleagues. 
• Have a passion for technology and can share that passion with others – we run regular show and tell sessions to help upskill the wider teams.
• Proactive and able to operate independently. Comfortable with ambiguity.
• Flexible but persistent. You push for us to do the best for our customers and balance this with a sense of pragmatism when needed.
• You are resilient – you take ownership of seeing issues through to resolution whilst looking after yourself to be at your best.

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.