Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer
- In this key role, you’ll support the improvement of non-functional and operational characteristics such as availability, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, security, incident response, and capacity planning of our products and services
- You’ll enjoy significant stakeholder interaction, working in collaboration with engineers to ensure a principled approach to deliver change in a safe and secure way
- This is a chance to join an inclusive team with a collaborative ethos and a commitment to innovation and professional development
- We're offering this role at associate level
As our Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll work alongside colleagues and feature team members to meet defined service level objectives and continually improve systems and environments. You’ll proactively contribute new ideas and innovations to meet short term and longer term goals whilst at the same time balancing and managing risk.
You’ll also be accountable for the day-to-day health of both production and non-production environments, responding to incidents as required.
A typical day will involve:
- Providing structure and supporting release processes, suggesting and making improvements where possible
- Supporting the clear communication and frequent update of incident status to other teams and customers
- Providing technical expertise and input to establish the risk tolerance of products and services
- Supporting the maintenance of services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health
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.
You'll also need:
- Good knowledge of Java and Microservices
- Strong knowledge of deploy and release services, automation, and troubleshooting
- Experience of utilising tools and technology across the software development lifecycle
- Experience of using a data driven and scientific approach to fact finding
- Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with a wide range of stakeholders
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
20/08/2026Skills Required
- Knowledge of reliability systems thinking and software engineering experience
- Experience using a data-driven and scientific approach to fact finding
- Financial services knowledge
- Good knowledge of Java
- Good knowledge of Microservices
- Strong knowledge of deploy and release services, automation, and troubleshooting
- Experience utilising tools and technology across the software development lifecycle
- Strong communication skills and stakeholder engagement
- Experience supporting incident response and maintaining service health (availability, latency, monitoring)
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.
