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.
 

About The Tesco Technology Infrastructure Team:

The Infrastructure Engineering team design develop and operate 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 and infrastructure that support the wider Tesco business.
 

Key activities include:

• Designs develops and operates the Infrastructure platforms that allow development teams and business colleagues to consume infrastructure.
• Designs develops and operates 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.
• Works with development teams to collaborate in creating appropriate infrastructure solutions.
• Evaluating partners software and hardware and finding 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 re-usable infrastructure solutions.
• The Infrastructure team are supporting both the current Infrastructure and also 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.

The Role – Systems Engineer II – Automation

Whilst 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:

• Architect Design and Deliver solutions using existing Infrastructure components. Where new infrastructure technologies are being introduced I implement them and establish best practice for their adoption. I will resolve incidents that have not been seen before and initiate change to ensure that issues can be easily dealt with in future.
• Contribute to the Technology Roadmap for Tesco Technology Data Centres
• Evaluate new tools and techniques being able to understand their value and impact.
• Understand current application development techniques (12 factor app) and their implications to infrastructure
• Lead group design discussions on my area of expertise and be able to present with authority to a variety of audiences.
• Collaborate with Software Engineers to understand their requirements and assist them consuming Infrastructure in the most seamless way possible.
• Coach and mentor system engineers across Technology who are at a more junior level. I ensure that my own team’s designs are of a high quality and I understand the impacts to any other areas of infrastructure.
• Keep my technical skills up to date and keep track of new technologies understanding how they might benefit the Technology team and wider Tesco.
• Introduce automation to all aspects of my day to day work.
• 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.

Key Skills and Experience:

• Installation configuration and administration of estate of at least 50 Linux servers
• Previous experience working in a DevOps environment and automating Infrastructure solutions.
• Previous experience of designing delivering a Software Defined Data Center
• Previous experience at designing solutions for large complex global organisations.
• Stakeholder Management

Technical Skills:

• Linux – sysadmin installation and configuration.
• Scripting / coding skills – Bash Python Powershell or similar
• Orchestration – Jenkings VMware vRO or similar
• Networking – TCP/IP routing DNS DHCP Loadbalancers
• Desired State Configuration Tools – one of Chef Ansible or Puppet
• Containers – Docker kubernetes
• Creating CI/CD Pipelines for delivery

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.

If you are interested and would like to apply for same, please do share me your updated resume at earliest or contact me on my number 888-000-8607