DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering Lead

NatWest Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking group is looking for a DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering Lead, responsible for enhancing operational characteristics of products. In this hybrid role, you'll collaborate with engineers, lead talented teams, and ensure automation and security within development lifecycles while delivering high impact solutions.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in establishing and running a DevSecOps and SRE practice.
• Understanding of financial services and its impact.
• Experience with data-driven approaches and statistical models.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and manage teams to ensure automation in processes.
• Own the technical roadmap and platform security.
• Respond to incidents and manage production environments.

Skills

Reliability systems thinking

Security checks

Full Stack Observability

Programming languages

Communication skills

Tools

Azure Monitor

Grafana

Prometheus

Azure DevOps

Job description

Join us as a DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering Lead

• In this key role, you’ll improve, drive, and embed non-functional and operational characteristics such as availability, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, security, incident response, and capacity planning of our products and services
• You'll be leading team(s) of talented DevSecOps and SRE engineers, working with new and innovative technology to deliver high impact solutions
• You’ll enjoy significant stakeholder interaction, working in collaboration with engineers to ensure a principled approach to deliver change in a safe and secure way
• This is a chance to join an inclusive team with a collaborative ethos and a commitment to innovation and professional development
• You'll work from home some of the time, but you'll also spend a significant amount of time working from an office or hub

What you'll do

As our DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering lead, you’ll ensure automation remains at the heart of everything we do – help implement robust pipelines and automation to help manage our product and services.

You’ll work closely with our feature team and other colleagues to meet defined service level objectives and continually improve systems and environments. You’ll define error budgets that support finding the right balance between risk and reliability.

You’ll also provide structure and help to our release process, suggesting and making improvements where possible. You’ll scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, evolving them by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity. We’ll also look to you to lead, coach and provide guidance to colleagues and the wider team.

In addition to this, you’ll:

• Have people management responsibilities and support recruitment, management of talent and performance
• Own and create technical road map for DevSecOps and SRE with the right architecture, solutions & commercial value
• Own security automation across our entire platform, collaborating with security teams to ensure platform integrity
• Own the observability strategy, and deliver monitoring and observability patterns
• Proactively contribute new ideas and innovations to meet short term and longer-term goals
• Continually balance and manage any potential risks
• Be accountable for the day-to-day health of both production and non-production environments and respond to any incidents as required
• Provide technical expertise and input to establish the risk tolerance of products and services

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with prior experience in establishing and running a DevSecOps and SRE practice . Possesses strong knowledge of reliability systems thinking and experience of software engineering. You’ll need experience of using a data driven and scientific approach to fact finding. We’ll also look for financial services knowledge, and the ability to identify wider business impact, risk and opportunity, and make connections across key outputs and processes

We’re also looking for:

• Strong experience in DevSecOps practice with knowledge of conducting security checks and mitigation across the software development lifecycle e.g. static and dynamic code analysis, SAST, DAST, IAST
• Hands on experience with Azure Cloud and Full Stack Observability using tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, AppInsights, Grafana and Prometheus
• Experience with Azure DevOps is a must, including Repos, advanced Pipelines and package management
• Good knowledge and experience of programming languages
• Strong knowledge of deploy and release services, automation, and troubleshooting
• Experience using mathematical and statistical models to assess trends
• Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with a wide range of stakeholders

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

01/07/2025 Ways of Working:Hybrid