Principal Infrastructure Engineer

General information

Job Title

Principal Infrastructure Engineer

Ref #

9395

Location

Edinburgh - 2 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9FQ, United Kingdom

Department

IMS - Technology Leadership

Business Area

Technology

Working time

Full-Time

Date Published

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary £76,400 - £114,600 & 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 – 5th December 2025
We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you've worked hard for. And that means we always work with heart. Whether we're helping our customers or looking after our people, you'll find there's a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.
Opportunity
We're looking for a Principal Infrastructure Engineer to join our Technology team within Tesco Insurance and Money Services.
As Principal Infrastructure Engineer you'll be accountable for the strategic leadership, design, and delivery of the organisation's technology infrastructure across network, desktop and security domains.
Operating within a regulated financial services context, this role ensures that infrastructure platforms are secure, resilient, and compliant with industry standards and regulatory requirements (e.g. FCA, PRA, GDPR). Please note this role is known as Principal Engineer in Tesco Insurance and Money Services.
The Role
You may oversee both internal engineering teams and external service providers, ensuring all infrastructure initiatives align with enterprise architecture, operational policies, and governance frameworks. The Principal Infrastructure Engineer drives innovation, automation, and continuous improvement while maintaining robust controls around availability, performance, and risk management.
This position plays a critical role in enabling business agility, supporting digital transformation, and ensuring the infrastructure estate can scale securely to meet evolving customer and regulatory demands.
You'll have (min experience)

• Ability to lead and develop high-performing internal teams and manage external service providers.
• Deep understanding of enterprise networking, EUC, security, storage and platform services.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS) and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM templates).
• Familiarity with high-availability architectures, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning.
• Experience in delivering large-scale infrastructure programmes aligned to business and regulatory requirements.
• Strong knowledge of security frameworks and best practice approaches with proven experience implementing secure infrastructure solutions with robust access controls, auditability, and data protection.
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.
• Embrace the benefits of our Colleague Clubcard, enjoy a 10% discount that increase 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 our 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

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.
Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you've worked hard for.
Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.
So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.
We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centres are open seven days a week.
Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

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 Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more

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