Join us as an Infrastructure Engineer for Database Platforms
- You’ll collaborate in building the best possible database platforms for public and private cloud environments and engineer infrastructure technology to comply 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, identifying ways to use new and existing technology tools to enhance performance, removing inefficiencies
- This is a chance to work with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices, allowing you to provide thought leadership while developing solutions
- We're offering this role at vice president level
What you'll do
As an Infrastructure Engineer for Database platforms, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of database related 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 Product Owners to develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of the team's products and support engineered products to respond to customer feedback, new feature requests, resolve production issues and help customers consume our products.Additionally, you’ll:
- Take a lead role within a team to design and engineer intuitive, self-service database products
- Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development
- Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions
- Build an awareness of design thinking tools and techniques with users in order to improve your product
- Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues
- Work with key vendors in the delivery of the infrastructure services and technology for the product
The skills you'll need
To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience in software development or 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.We’ll expect you to bring a good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets with the ability to create the vision for the Release Train, feature team, platform and domain.Furthermore, you’ll need:
- Experience of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling
- Experience in software testing practices and tools and in using observability tools and techniques with the ability to use data, information and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions
- Private and Public cloud technology knowledge covering AWS , linux and modern database technologies
- Experience of working with technology deployed in a private cloud
- Strong collaborative communication skills for articulating technical concepts clearly to stakeholders
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
24/07/2026Skills Required
- Experience in software development or automation scripting (Python or Shell) and understanding of the software development lifecycle
- Experience utilizing modern Infrastructure as Code tooling
- Experience developing CI/CD pipelines using modern tooling
- Experience in software testing practices and using observability tools and techniques
- Private and public cloud technology knowledge, including AWS
- Experience working with technology deployed in a private cloud
- Experience with Linux
- Experience with modern database technologies and database platform engineering
- Strong collaborative communication skills to articulate technical concepts to stakeholders
- Familiarity with Agile working practices and toolsets
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NatWest Group and has not been reviewed or approved by NatWest Group.
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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.
