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* Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
* Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
* Private medical insurance
* 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 year’s service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay. We also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
* Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.
About the role
The Infrastructure Engineering team designs, develops, and operates all infrastructure used by Tesco Technology across our data centres, offices, stores, and distribution centres. This encompasses multiple domains: private and public cloud, connectivity, end-user computing, CI/CD, and monitoring toolkit. This includes both 3rd party and internally developed infrastructure applications that support the wider Tesco business.
Key activities include:
* Designing, developing, and operating the Infrastructure platforms that allow development teams and business colleagues to consume infrastructure.
* Designing, developing, and operating the automation to allow Infrastructure platforms to be consumed in a controlled, auditable, and repeatable manner.
* Setting the strategy, objectives, and high-level plans for infrastructure.
* Working with development teams to collaborate in creating appropriate infrastructure solutions.
* Evaluating partners, software, and hardware to find the right mix to deliver the strategy.
* Driving innovation at Tesco through infrastructure transformation.
* Defining and overseeing standards and simplification across the estate.
* Designing, delivering, and operating new and reusable infrastructure solutions.
The Infrastructure team is supporting both the current infrastructure and the work required to continue the transformation of Tesco Technologies Infrastructure to modern platforms that can be easily consumed through self-service APIs, automatically handle failures, and use best of breed modern technologies.
You will be responsible for
Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence. While specific responsibilities will be dependent upon the changing needs of the Tesco business, the following provides an overview of the role’s key responsibilities and measures:
* Working as a key member of an engineering team who is an aspiring expert in a technical specialism.
* Suggesting improvements to processes and methodologies to speed delivery.
* Questioning requirements and challenging where necessary.
* Demonstrating knowledge of other areas to collaborate outside of your domain.
* Demonstrating knowledge of the latest technology trends related to Infrastructure.
* Understanding how industry trends impact their area.
* Being recognised as a Storage & Backup specialist.
* Preparing and maintaining technical documents & presentations for systems engineering and system operations.
* Participating in designing solutions and delivering them using existing Infrastructure components. Where new infrastructure technologies are being introduced, implementing them and establishing best practices for their adoption. Resolving incidents that have not been seen before and initiating change to ensure that issues can be easily dealt with in the future.
* Delivering high quality in a timely manner.
* Evaluating new tools and techniques, understanding their value and impact.
* Understanding current application development techniques (12 factor app, agile, sprints) and their implications for infrastructure.
* Collaborating with team members and wider infrastructure teams to understand their requirements and assist them in consuming Infrastructure in the most seamless way possible.
* Ensuring that my own designs are of high quality and understanding the impacts on other areas of infrastructure.
* Keeping my technical skills up to date and tracking new technologies, understanding how they might benefit the Technology team and wider Tesco.
* Introducing automation to all aspects of my day-to-day work.
* Being proficient in spoken and written English and comfortable communicating with leaders and engineers.
* Improving and automating team procedures and systems performances.
* Leading group design discussions in my area of expertise and being able to present with authority to a variety of audiences.
This role will best suit an individual who enjoys working as part of a team, is well-organised, pragmatic, and a lateral thinker with an inquisitive mind who is motivated to make change for the better and, most importantly, puts our customers first.
You will need
* Knowledge of various OS related functionalities including, but not limited to Backups, Capacity Planning, Disaster Recovery, and File System Management.
* Knowledge and experience with various storage replication software, SAN switches, Storage Virtualization, and storage management software/hardware.
* Ability to configure SAN infrastructures.
* Knowledge of enterprise backup and recovery hardware/software.
* Ability to develop complex scripting logic.
* Strong verbal communication and technical writing skills.
* Effective analytical and problem-solving skills.
* Object Storage.
* Veeam Technologies.
* Scripting Capabilities.
* Windows.
Personal
* Flexibility, ability to plan and organise, responsiveness, creativity, self-starter.
* Able to build solid working relationships with peers and senior leadership.
* Ability to demonstrate strong written, verbal communication, and presentation skills to all levels of seniority and disciplines within the organisation.
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.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader, and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.
We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you. We work in a more blended pattern - combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate, and innovate.
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