DevOps Engineer

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Edinburgh to help build our DevOps practice and accelerate adoption of center of excellence practices. You will mentor feature and platform teams and drive continuous improvement for end-to-end value delivery.

You’ll work across the bank to uplift DevOps capability, measure outcomes, and advocate data-driven decisions, while guiding teams on tooling and cloud migrations to improve reliability and speed.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Software Development, CI/CD pipelines and automation scripting.
• Experience migrating services from private cloud to public cloud.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of AWS hosting and services.
• Solid understanding of Java Spring Boot.
• Experience with Observability tooling (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, Prometheus).

Responsibilities

• Mentor and coach feature and platform teams to higher DevOps capability and drive continuous improvements.
• Assess current DevOps capability levels and identify gaps; support with learning workshops and training.
• Demonstrate how to measure and visualise value flow through DevOps tools and processes.
• Advise teams on the most suitable DevOps uplifts based on needs and ROI; ensure data-driven decisions and cost management.

Skills

DevOps coaching

Data-driven decisions

Cross-team collaboration

Automation scripting

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GitLab

ArgoCD

Grafana

Loki

Tempo

Mimir

Prometheus

Job description

Join us as a DevOps Engineer

• This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to building our DevOps engineering capability, culture and mindsets within the bank
• Promoting technical and cultural change, you’ll be accelerating learning journeys and the progressive adoption of our DevOps centre of excellence technical practices and techniques
• As you build relationships with your colleagues, you’ll be making sure that decisions are commercially focused and create long term value for the bank

What you'll do

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be mentoring and coaching feature and platform teams to higher levels of DevOps capability to drive continuous improvements and enhance the end customer experience. You’ll assess their current levels of DevOps technical capability to identify any gaps, and support them in closing these through learning workshops and training.

You’ll also be:

• Demonstrating how to measure, understand and visualise the flow and delivery of value through adopting DevOps tools, techniques and processes
• Advising teams across platform and within the centre of excellence on which DevOps capability uplifts would be best suited to their needs and abilities
• Providing feedback that builds on policies, standards, practices and associated DevOps tooling
• Making sure decisions made are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management

The skills you'll need

You'll bring extensive experience in Software Development, CICD Pipelines and automation scripting. You'll work with teams across the bank to improve the platform and support the Cloud and DevOps team. Additionally, you’ll enhance the route to live workflows, as well as supporting the migration of services from private cloud to public cloud.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Proficiency with Terraform, Docker & Kubernetes
• Knowledge and experience in AWS hosting and services
• A solid understanding of programming languages, preferably Java Spring boot
• Experience containerising Java applications to run on Amazon EKS
• Demonstratable CI/CD and GitOps experience preferably using Gitlab and ArgoCD
• Automation scripting in Python and Bash
• Experience with Observability tooling such as Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir and Prometheus