Systems Engineer III - Cloud Platform Engineer

Tesco Bengaluru: We are a multi-disciplinary team creating a sustainable competitive advantage for Tesco by standardising processes, delivering cost savings, enabling agility, providing cutting-edge technological solutions and empowering our colleagues to do ever more for our customers. With cross-functional expertise in Global Business Services and Retail Technology & Engineering, a wide network of teams and strong governance we reduce complexity thereby offering high quality services for our customers. Tesco Bengaluru, established in 2004 to enable standardisation and build centralised capabilities and competencies, makes the experience better for our millions of customers worldwide and simpler for over 4,40,000 colleagues.

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Summary: Join as a Cloud Platform Engineer in our dynamic Cloud Platform Engineering (CPE) team! Your core purpose will be on enhancing our Public Cloud presence, particularly in Microsoft Azure, supporting internal development teams and central platforms.

We're on the lookout for a motivated engineer with a strong "DevOps" mindset. In this role, you'll contribute to our emphasis on "Infrastructure-as-Code" (IaC), and work to enact centralised governance controls. The goal is to streamline adherence to organisational standards, best practices, and establish guardrails where needed, reducing friction in the process – making doing the right thing easy!

We value fresh perspectives! If you're someone who can challenge the status quo, drawing on your past experiences while aligning with Tesco Technology's context, this role could be the perfect fit for you.

You will be responsible for:

This is an individual contributor (IC) role and does not require people management. Key responsibilities as an IC within the CPE team will cover;

• Designing and Implementing Cloud Infrastructure: Delivering Terraform, Bicep and ARM to automate the setup, scaling and management of resources. The key focus will be to reduce friction of teams in adopting best practices.
• Ensuring Security and Compliance: Delivered through proposed/implemented centralised controls, or through reducing the friction of consuming organisationally aligned infrastructure.
• Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD): Delivering workflows that can automate deployments, as well as provide E2E testing of components developed.
• Collaboration and Documentation: Working with the wider CPE team to document centralised constructs, as well as any modules or other artefacts produced; creating documentation that can be understood by a variety of audiences.

You’ll need to demonstrate experience with:

• Proficiency with common IaC Tools: 5+ Years, Minimum 5 years' experience in a delivery role. Demonstrable experience with Terraform required. An understanding of ARM and Bicep is desirable, but not required.
• CI/CD Expertise: 5 + Years
  • Working within a similar DevOps or Cloud Engineering role, with an understanding of common tooling.
  • Working understanding of GitHub, GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps preferable.
  • Proficiency in at least one scripting language: 5 + Years; PowerShell preferable, but Go, Bash and Python also beneficial.
• Cloud Infrastructure Knowledge: 5+ Years
  • Focus on Microsoft Azure. Knowledge of other cloud platforms may be helpful, but not required.
  • Familiarity with Role Based Access Control, policy, and other common governance constructs.
  • Familiarity with Entra ID desirable, but not essential.
• Exposure/understanding of containerisation: Covering Kubernetes and Docker, with a focus on specific platform tooling that provides this such as AKS, Container Apps and Container Instances.

Personal

• Effective Documentation and Communication Abilities: Proficient in articulating problems and solutions clearly, catering to stakeholders with varying levels of understanding.
• Building Strong Relationships: Collaborative work with diverse colleagues to drive the team's primary objectives forward.
• Tech Enthusiast at the Forefront: Demonstrates a passion for technology, staying abreast of the latest advancements.
• Flexible yet Persistent: Advocates for customer-centric approaches while maintaining a