Senior Azure Engineer

Systems Engineering III for Cloud Platform Operations Team is an individual contributor role and the person is expected to work on incident, problem, and change request to support the Azure Cloud Platform and expected to adhere to the shift pattern. Systems Engineering is a core capability for Tesco Technology and this position is critical for shaping the engineering culture as we grow. The role will be serving as a core member of an agile team that support the Azure Cloud Platform Availability and future automations in Tesco. This role is also providing operational assistance and guidance for Azure Cloud platform including monitoring, management, disaster recovery, security compliance, auditing, networking & storage.

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

• Discover and implement new technologies that improve functionality, availability, security and compliance for Azure Cloud Platform.
• Collaborate with other teams across all of Tesco Technology and vendors to ensure security and compliance related project delivery.
• Drive Service Improvements with operations engineering and bring operational excellence.
• Owning all technical aspects of Azure Cloud Platform and automation drive.
• Deliver programmes with business and/or technical risks assessment.
• Able to foresee potential risks and issues, establish a process, facilitate discussion and manage escalations.
• Evaluate and recommend appropriate Azure Cloud Platform ITSM & ISO27001 best practices to meet business need.
• Ensure security is by design for new and existing solutions of Azure Cloud Platform
• Understand and adopt appropriately different ways of working for effective and efficient delivery.
• Leverage existing tool sets and drive adoption of new tools and techniques, to get the best value.

• Good understanding of Azure Networking such as NSG/ASG/Azure firewall/NAT gateway/Firewall on native Azure services
• Azure Skills – Compute, AAD, VNET, NSG, Functions, Storage, Analytics, IAM, Azure Security, Monitoring, K8s, DNS, PDNS, Containers, Cost Management, Azure CLI, ExpressRoute, App Gateway, Load Balancer.
• Experience with setting up the RBAC & Managed identities to enforce access controls and manage permissions effectively across tenancy.
• Aware of native security monitoring solution in Azure to detect and respond to security incidents.
• Ensures real-time compliance and governance using Azure policies.

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

• 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 years’ 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

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.