Data Centre Network Engineer

NatWest Group; London; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Data Centre Network Engineer to develop and implement core infrastructure technologies. The role involves managing technology lifecycles, providing operational support, and ensuring compliance with strategic targets. Ideal candidates will have strong knowledge of network technologies and excellent collaboration skills.

Qualifications

• Ability to understand infrastructure layers and support customer needs.
• Experience in contributing to roadmaps and strategies.
• Excellent communication skills for complex technical concepts.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement core infrastructure technologies.
• Manage selection and maintenance of technologies.
• Provide operational support during major incidents.

Skills

Cisco Datacentre Network Architecture

TCP/IP protocol suite

Software Defined Networking

BGP

OSPF

Agile

DevOps

Collaboration

Stakeholder Management

Tools

Ansible

Job description

Join us as a Data Centre Network Engineer

• We’ll look to you to develop and implement core infrastructure technologies, products and services against customer and non-functional requirements
• In order to achieve a first-class customer experience, you’ll make sure the infrastructure technology is engineered to comply with security, availability and resilience, performance and capacity
• You’ll work with colleagues across the bank, allowing you to expand your network and gain exposure for you and your work

What you'll do

As a Data Centre Network Engineer, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, ensuring alignment to the Chief Technology Office (CTO) strategic targets and architecture outcomes.

You’ll also be:

• Making sure the required work in the platform backlog contains detailed acceptance criteria, which ensures that operations support or warranty period is clear and accountable once a system migration is complete
• Contributing to a high number of complex and risk exposed technical infrastructures
• Producing and providing ongoing management of infrastructure roadmaps, detailing lifecycles of the technology from new products and versions, through to end of support and retirement
• Providing operational support to other infrastructure teams in the event of major incidents or complex technical issues
• Building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across bank to make sure decisions made are commercially focused and create long term value for the organisation

The skills you'll need

To succeed in this role, you’ll need the ability to understand how your area of expertise supports customers, from the core development of technology to risk based decisions. On top of this, you’ll need a clear understanding of infrastructure layers or stack, and a broad knowledge across multiple platforms such as server, operating system, virtualisation, database, middleware or network.

Along with experience of contributing to roadmaps and strategies and working closely with third parties on assurance of their output and managing their performance, you’ll need the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to your peers and management level colleagues, with good collaboration and stakeholder management skills.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Good knowledge of Cisco Datacentre Network Architecture, TCP/IP protocol suite and network technologies including, Software Defined Networking, such as ACI and VXLAN, traditional networking, BGP, OSPF, Cisco IOS/NX-OS and design concepts
• Knowledge of, or an interest, in APIs and automation tools, methodologies and practices such as Ansible
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to colleagues and management
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• A solid background working in an Agile or DevOps environment with continuous delivery and continuous integration

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

29/05/2025 Ways of Working:Remote First