DevOps Platform Engineer

NatWest Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A major banking institution in Greater London is seeking a DevOps Platform Engineer to design, develop, and deploy AWS-based platforms for customer workloads. In this role, you will coach feature teams and drive continuous improvements in DevOps capability, while ensuring decisions are informed by robust data. The ideal candidate will have expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and automation tools, as well as experience in developing CI/CD pipelines. This position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to the bank's innovative DevOps culture.

Qualifications

• Strong focus on automation and testing to support bank-critical systems.
• Experience in DevOps tools, techniques, and processes.
• Ability to measure and visualize flow and delivery of value.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy AWS based platforms for customer workloads.
• Coach feature teams to enhance DevOps capabilities.
• Ensure data-driven decisions and thoughtful cost management.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Automation

Java development

AI automation

Terraform

Python development

ArgoCD

GitOps

Tools

GitLab

Job description

Overview

Join us as a DevOps Platform 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 Platform Engineer, you’ll be working with feature and platform teams to design, develop and deploy AWS based platforms for running customer facing workloads at scale. Along the way you’ll also be using your experience to help coach those feature teams to higher levels of DevOps capability to drive continuous improvements and enhance the end customer experience.

• Demonstrating how to measure, understand and visualise the flow and delivery of value through adopting DevOps tools, techniques and processes


• 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

Approaching infrastructure engineering with a development and engineering mindset, you'll have a strong focus on automation and testing to deliver the levels of resilience and performance required to support bank-critical systems, while also optimising cost and carbon efficiency throughout.

Skills in Backstage, Java development and Prompt engineering, and AI automation would be hugely beneficial.

You'll also demonstrate

• Expert knowledge and proficiency of AWS and Kubernetes


• Experience of ArgoCD, GitOps, Terraform and Python development


• Experience of building and engineering comprehensive GitLab or similar CI/CD pipelines covering the full SDLC