DevOps Engineer

NatWest Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a DevOps Engineer to help build the bank's DevOps capability, culture and practices. You will mentor teams, promote learning journeys and drive adoption of the centre of excellence techniques to deliver lasting value.

You will measure value delivery, advise on uplift options and ensure data-driven decisions with cost awareness. The role involves collaboration across platform teams and cloud migrations from private to public environments.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in software development, CI/CD pipelines and automation scripting.
• Experience moving services from private cloud to public cloud.
• Ability to measure and visualize value delivery with DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Mentor and coach feature and platform teams to higher DevOps capability, driving continuous improvements and customer value.
• Assess current DevOps capability and identify gaps, supporting teams with learning workshops and training.
• Demonstrate how to measure, understand and visualise value flow through DevOps tools, techniques and processes.
• Advise teams across platform and within the centre of excellence on uplift options suited to their needs and abilities.
• Provide feedback that improves policies, standards, practices and DevOps tooling.
• Ensure decisions are data-driven with ROI and value measures to demonstrate cost management.

Skills

Software Development

CI/CD Pipelines

Automation scripting

DevOps culture and mindsets

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GitLab

ArgoCD

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

Tempo

Mimir

Python

Bash

Java

Spring Boot

Amazon EKS

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