DevOps Engineer

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution is seeking a proactive DevOps Engineer to elevate DevOps capabilities across teams. This role involves mentoring teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines for Java microservices, driving continuous improvements, and ensuring data-driven decisions for robust cost management. Ideal candidates will have extensive DevOps experience, particularly in deploying business-critical systems within Agile environments. The position offers a remote-first working style, with a commitment of 35 hours weekly.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in CI/CD pipeline design, implementation, and optimization.
• Ability to mentor software engineers and junior team members.
• Solid understanding of DevOps principles and practices.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and coach teams to enhance DevOps capabilities.
• Implement continuous improvements in delivery processes.
• Ensure decisions are based on data-driven analyses.

Skills

Designing CI/CD pipelines

Mentoring teams

Building scalable APIs

Effective stakeholder management

Hands-on DevOps experience

Education

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

VMware Tanzu Specialist

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Terraform

CloudFormation

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

We’re looking for a proactive DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in designing, implementing, and optimising continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and automation solutions for Java based microservices architectures.

You’ll deliver scalable, resilient, and secure Open Banking and Discretionary APIs efficiently within a hybrid cloud infrastructure.

You’ll have the ability to mentor and support software engineers and junior DevOps team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement, automation best practices, and microservices design principles.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Hands‑on experience deploying business‑critical systems to production within Agile and DevOps environments, focusing on reliability, scalability, observability, and security best practices
• Extensive experience of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar, tailored for Java microservices deployments
• Solid understanding and application of DevOps principles, including infrastructure as code (IaC) with Terraform or CloudFormation, monitoring, logging, and incident response tailored for microservices and API ecosystems
• Effective stakeholder management skills, collaborating with development, API management, security, and operations teams to align delivery expectations and drive business outcomes
• Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, VMware Tanzu Specialist, or equivalent, alongside experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date

07/12/2025

Ways of Working: Remote First