Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer
- You’ll manage the provision of stable, resilient, reliable applications with the end goal of minimising disruption to Customer & Colleague Journeys (CCJ)
- We’ll look to you to identify and automate manual tasks and implement observability solutions, ensuring a thorough understanding of CCJ across applications
- This is a great chance to work in a supportive environment with opportunities to advance your personal and career development
- We're offering this role at associate vice president level
As a Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll work closely with our feature team and other colleagues to meet defined service level objectives and continually improve systems and environments. You’ll define error budgets that support finding the right balance between risk and reliability. You’ll also provide structure and help to our release process, suggesting and making improvements where possible. You’ll scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, evolving them by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity. You'll coach and provide guidance to colleagues and the wider team, leading where required.
In addition to this, you’ll:
- Proactively contribute new ideas and innovations to meet short term and longer-term goals
- Continually balance and manage any potential risks
- Be accountable for the day-to-day health of both production and non-production environments and respond to any incidents as required
- Provide technical expertise and input to establish the risk tolerance of products and services
- Communicate incident status updates clearly and frequently to other teams, customers and stakeholders
We’re looking for someone with strong knowledge of reliability systems thinking and experience of software engineering. You’ll need experience of using a data driven and scientific approach to fact finding. We’ll also look for financial services knowledge, and the ability to identify wider business impact, risk and opportunity, and make connections across key outputs and processes
We’re also looking for:
- Experience in key AWS tools including EMR, Airflow, S3, EKS, EC2, EMR-Serverless, Lambda and CloudWatch.
- Hands-on experience in programming Language like Spark, Python , shell along with experience in DevOps Tools like Gitlab, Gitlab CI and Artifactory.
- Hands-on experience of working with Docker, Prometheus and Grafana.
- Strong ability to debug complex data issues from splunk , spark and cloudwatch audit logs, working closely with stakeholders to manage customer incident and support Service management
- Experience of utilising tools and technology across the software development lifecycle
- Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with a wide range of stakeholders
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
20/10/2026Skills Required
- Strong knowledge of reliability systems thinking
- Experience in software engineering
- Experience using data-driven and scientific approaches to fact-finding
- Knowledge of financial services
- Ability to identify business impact, risk, and opportunity
- Experience with AWS EMR, Airflow, S3, EKS, EC2, EMR-Serverless, Lambda, and CloudWatch
- Hands-on experience with Spark, Python, and shell
- Experience with GitLab, GitLab CI, and Artifactory
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Ability to debug complex data issues using Splunk, Spark, and CloudWatch audit logs
- Experience with software development lifecycle tools and technologies
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
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
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