Senior System Engineer

Company Description

Tesco is a leading multinational retailer, with more than 336 000 colleagues.

Our software is used by millions of people across several countries every day. Whether it’s the tills and websites our customers use, or the systems our colleagues and partners use, you’ll play your part in keeping it running like a well-oiled machine. And when a business problem pops up? You and the creative minds in our team will be challenged to solve it.

As Tech Hub we cooperate within the group of Tesco Technology Hubs located in the UK, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, and India.

What our colleagues like the most at Tesco:

• We develop our own products
• We make an impact; large scale of operation
• Accountability and respect are given to us
• We cooperate and support each other
• There are great colleagues who are divided into small teams here
• We can develop and learn new things

Job Description

This job requires to be based in/close to Kraków. We currently work in a hybrid model and meet in our office 3 days a week.

We operate in a DevOps philosophy. We take responsibility for the software through its entire lifecycle. We practice continuous integration, delivery, and support of our code through to production and beyond.

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:

• Be a subject matter expert for Opentext Documentum product
• Focus on performance, availability, reliability, and security.
• Lead the definition and technical direction of features for services in the documents area.
• Mentor and guide junior team members while providing technical expertise in DevOps practices.
• Maintain and develop document management system with coopertaion of Tesco enginieers as well as with support from the vendor
• Contribute to the definition of features for services in the documents area
• Cooperate with business stakeholders to shape and drive the document management IT ecosystem

Qualifications

You will need:

• Experinence with IaaC.
• Experience with setting up CI/CD pipelines, with Helm charts familiarity being a plus.
• Advanced experience of Docker/Containerization/Kubernetes
• Demonstrated ability to set a technical direction for projects and systems.
• Proven experience in system design and architecture.
• Good English communication skills
• Strong willingness to learn and develop expertise in a core system responsible for document management
• Familiriaty of data protection (GDPR) frameworks
• Expirence in system integrations work
• Experience with Azure, AWS or other cloud solutions
• Experience in system design
• Experience in taking ownership of a project and leading a team from technical/ project perspective
• Experience in setting up a direction for a project
• Proactive attitude
• Previous experience in document management systems will be an additional asset (preferably Opentext, M-Files)
• 5+ years of commercial experience

Unsure if you fit all the criteria? Apply and give us the chance to evaluate your potential – you could be the perfect fit!

Technology stack which we are using:

• Languages: Experience in delivering Java (or any other JVM language) based software solutions using modern frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring WebFlux, Kotlin etc.
• Frameworks: Micronaut or Spring Boot
• Cloud: Azure, Private Cloud
• Architecture: Microservices 
• DB: SQL (PostgreSQL)
• Workloads on Kubernetes, Jenkins phased out in favor of Azure DevOps and/or GitHub Actions
• Monitoring & alerting: Splunk, AppDynamics, xMatters, Runscope etc.
• Testing: Spock, Gatling 
• Tools: ArgoCD, Helm charts, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker.
• VCS: GitHub 
• Zendesk & JIRA

Additional information

Benefits

Tesco is a diverse and exciting employer, dedicated to being #aplacetogeton, providing career-defining opportunities to all of our colleagues. If you choose to join our business, we will provide you with (for all):

• Permanent contract from the go – as a sign of our trust in your abilities
• MacBook as your tool for work
• Learning opportunities - certified technical training and learning platforms like Udemy, Pluralsight and O’reily
• Referral Bonus
• Sports activities with a personal trainer in the office

Benefits for colleagues on employment of contract only:

• Additional 4 days of paid leave to support your well-being and family life
• Up to 20% yearly salary bonus – based on both individual and business performance
• Private healthcare (LuxMed)
• Cafeteria & Multisport
• Supporting those, who are not yet eligible for full holiday entitlement, by expanding their pool from 20 to 25 days
• Relocation Help
• IP Tax Deductible Costs

If that sounds exciting, then we'd love to hear from you.

Tesco is committed to celebrating diversity and everyone is welcome at Tesco. As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process, allowing candidates the opportunity to thrive and inform us of any reasonable adjustments they may require.