Join us as a DevOps Engineer
- This is an opportunity for a driven individual to take on an exciting new career challenge
- You’ll focus on enhancing the integration of development and platform activities to improve deployment and system reliability
- It’s a chance to have a tangible effect on our function, put your existing skills to the test and advance your career
- We're offering this role at associate vice president level
As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing and implementing solutions, driving automation, and optimising performance across the software development lifecycle. You’ll be securing buy-in to DevOps methodologies from the Product Owner, Platform Lead, and other key business stakeholders, driving commitment to an alternative way of working.
We’ll look to you to build and leverage internal and external relationships to make sure that decisions made are commercially focused and create long-term value for the bank. You’ll also be collaborating in the development of the DevOps strategy and roadmap aligned with business goals.
In addition, you’ll be:
- Designing and overseeing the architecture of systems and applications with a focus on scalability and reliability
- Analysing system performance and optimising infrastructure to improve efficiency and reduce costs
- Driving innovation by evaluating and integrating new technologies that enhance the DevOps ecosystem
- Leading the automation of advanced workflows, creating reusable modules and templates
- Making sure that practices align with compliance requirements and industry standards
- Communicating effectively with stakeholders to understand requirements and provide technical guidance
To take on this role, you’ll need knowledge of the core principles and benefits of DevOps, paired with experience with common DevOps tools, source code management, deployment, and configuration tooling.
You’ll also need:
- Strong experience in DevOps practices, including GITLAB CI/CD pipeline design and implementation, Gitflow (braching strategy such as trunk based deployment)
- Proficiency in containerization technologies - with PCF and AWS cloud platform skills
- Hands-on expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with focus on Developer Experience (DX) and Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
- Skilled in observability and monitoring tools, especially Splunk
- Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Environment as a code and implementation using Yaml scripts
- Preferred Knowledge of Mainframes technologies at least DB2
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
19/09/2026Skills Required
- Strong experience with DevOps practices
- GitLab CI/CD pipeline design and implementation
- Gitflow and branching strategies, including trunk-based deployment
- Containerization technologies
- PCF cloud platform skills
- AWS cloud platform skills
- Hands-on Site Reliability Engineering experience focused on Developer Experience and Application Performance Monitoring
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools, especially Splunk
- Understanding of Infrastructure as Code and Environment as Code
- Implementation using YAML scripts
- Knowledge of mainframe technologies, including DB2
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
