Join us as a Platform Engineer
- This is a great opportunity to step into a high-profile role where you’ll design, build, and improve our platforms
- We’ll look to you to make sure that our platforms are secure, scalable, and highly available, while collaborating across teams to share and re-use best practices and technology stacks
- You can expect to work in an engaging and fast-paced environment that will motivate you to hone your technical expertise and advance your career
- We're offering this role at associate vice president level
As a Platform Engineer, you’ll be responsible for keeping our platforms robust, cost-efficient, and consistently optimised. You’ll play a key role as well in enhancing the technology stack by introducing new features and addressing defects in a timely manner. We’ll also look to you to contribute to the codebase, making sure it remains clean, elegant, reusable, easy to maintain and extend.
You’ll also be:
- Proactively performing code and designing peer reviews
- Making sure platforms and operational issues, defects, and maintenance activities are appropriately prioritised while delivering highly available, high-performing solutions
- Owning, developing, and improving platform engineering tools, processes, and ways of working
- Pioneering new ideas to improve the platform delivery lifecycle, from design and coding to automation and effective operational support
- Responsible for implementing identity, authentication, mobility, messaging, and collaboration solutions on the Microsoft Cloud
We're looking for someone with extensive hands-on experience in Azure, with the ability to design, build, and deploy solutions using Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) practices. You’ll also need a deep understanding of Azure resources, particularly Kubernetes Services (AKS), Cosmos Database (DB), SQL DB, and key networking components.
To succeed in this role, strong knowledge of Azure and infrastructure-as-code (IAC) tools such as Bicep, Terraform, and Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates is essential. Moreover, you’ll have to be an advocate for containerisation and cloud native solutions, championing best practices across modern platform engineering.
You’ll also need:
- As solid understanding of CI/CD principles and Application Programming Interface (API) management
- Hands-on experience with Azure administration, including Hub-and-Spoke networking and cloud best practices across platform and security
- Experience with real-time logging and monitoring using tools such as New Relic, Log Analytics, AppInsights, and Azure Monitor
- Experience in implementing Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies and business continuity plans
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft tools and technologies including Azure AD, Microsoft 365, Device Management/Endpoint Manager, and cloud best practices across platform and security
Hours
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19/06/2026NatWest 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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