Join us as an Infrastructure Engineer, Db2
- You’ll engineer Db2 related infrastructure technology complying with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in
- You’ll also use automation to provide testing and a route to live for the product, working with customers to help them use our products appropriately through a users’ CI or CD pipeline
- This is a chance to work with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices, allowing you to expand your network and gain exposure for you and your work
As an Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, strategic targets and architecture outcomes, along with developing products using modern engineering practices and tools.
We’ll look to you to collaborate with stakeholders to design and support engineered products and respond to user feedback, new feature requests and resolve production issues wanted by the Product Owner.
Additionally, you’ll:
- Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development
- Work within a team to design intuitive, self-service infrastructure products
- Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions
- Work with users to help use our products and gain feedback
- Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues
- Generate innovative ideas and drive the delivery of those through product features
- Advise and deliver projects using Db2 for z/OS database design principles and best practices
To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience in Db2 database design and administration, automation scripting such as Python or Shell, with an understanding of the software development lifecycle. You’ll also have experience in utilizing modern infrastructure as code via tooling. Experience with IBM Db2 toolset will be beneficial.
We’ll expect you to bring a good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets with the ability to relate everyday work to the vision of the feature team, platform and domain.
Furthermore, you’ll need:
- Strong experience in Db2 for z/OS database design principles and best practices
- Proven experience conducting SQL performance reviews and optimization
- Hands-on experience with DDL deployments and implementation in accordance with established standards and governance
- Ability to design and implement robust housekeeping, backup, and recovery strategies
- Working knowledge of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling
- Experience of using observability tools and techniques and the ability to use data, information and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions
- Experience of working with technology deployed to an on premise datacentre
- An understanding of a DevOps mind-set, collaboration, automation and tooling
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
15/06/2026Ways of Working:Remote FirstSkills Required
- Experience in Db2 database design and administration.
- Strong experience in Db2 for z/OS database design principles and best practices.
- Proven experience conducting SQL performance reviews and optimization.
- Hands-on experience with DDL deployments and implementation in accordance with established standards and governance.
- Ability to design and implement housekeeping, backup, and recovery strategies.
- Automation scripting such as Python or Shell.
- Working knowledge of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling.
- Experience of using observability tools and techniques to continuously improve solutions.
- Experience of working with technology deployed to an on premise datacentre.
- Experience utilizing modern infrastructure as code via tooling.
- Understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Understanding of a DevOps mindset, collaboration, automation and tooling.
- Experience with IBM Db2 toolset.
- Good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets.
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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