Join us as a DevOps Engineer
- This is an opportunity for a driven DevOps Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
- Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
- It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders
- We're offering this role at associate level
In your new role, you’ll be working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.
You’ll also be:
- Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
- Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
- Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
- Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions
- Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations
To take on this role, you’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, and architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.
You’ll also demonstrate considerable experience of design and implement scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, including branching strategies and automated build/test/deploy workflows. Manage GitLab platform like repos, standards, runners and optimize pipelines for performance, cost, and reliability.
You'll also own deployments across dev, test, and production environments, supporting containerized workloads like Docker, ECS/EKS.
You’ll also need:
- Embed DevSecOps practices across CI/CD and deployments (security scanning, secrets management, policy enforcement) while driving improvements in reliability & system uptime with focus on operational excellence
- Strong GitLab CI/CD and automation experience and AWS Certified Developer
- Experience of DevOps and Agile methodology and associated toolsets
- Implement observability and monitoring using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana to ensure system health
- A background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems
- Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
13/07/2026Skills Required
- Background in software engineering, software design, and architecture
- Experience designing and implementing scalable CI/CD pipelines using GitLab
- Manage GitLab platform (repos, standards, runners) and optimize pipelines
- Experience owning deployments across dev, test, and production environments
- Support for containerized workloads using Docker and AWS ECS/EKS
- Implement observability and monitoring using CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana
- Embed DevSecOps practices across CI/CD and deployments (security scanning, secrets management, policy enforcement)
- Strong GitLab CI/CD and automation experience
- AWS Certified Developer
- Experience with DevOps and Agile methodologies and associated toolsets
- Ability to solve highly complex analytical and numerical problems
- Experience implementing programming best practices around scalability, automation, virtualization, optimization, availability and performance
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.
