DevOps Engineer

NatWest Group; Manchester; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to enhance their engineering capability and culture. This role involves mentoring teams, promoting technical change, and driving continuous improvements in a remote-first environment. You will assess and uplift DevOps capabilities while ensuring decisions are data-driven and focused on long-term value. If you are passionate about fostering a culture of excellence and have experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform, this is an exciting opportunity to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• Experience in deploying business-critical systems to production.
• Knowledge of a DevOps environment and practices.

Responsibilities

• Mentoring feature and platform teams to enhance DevOps capabilities.
• Advising on suitable DevOps capability uplifts for teams.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes (k8s)

Terraform

DevOps practices

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 ensuring 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 someone with experience of AWS, k8s, and Terraform.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Experience of deploying business-critical systems to production.
• Knowledge and experience of a DevOps environment.

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date: 09/05/2025

Ways of Working: Remote First