GCP Infrastructure Engineer

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution seeks a GCP Infrastructure Engineer to engineer cloud infrastructure for public cloud environments. You will collaborate with stakeholders, drive product development, and support operational needs. The ideal candidate is experienced in software development and possesses strong knowledge of infrastructure as code, DevOps practices, and modern tooling.

Qualifications

• Experience in software development or automation scripting such as Python or Shell.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• Experience in utilizing modern infrastructure as code via tooling.
• Good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets.
• Experience of using observability tools and techniques.

Responsibilities

• Engineer cloud infrastructure technology for public cloud environments on Google Cloud.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to inform product roadmaps.
• Develop documentation to support your work and others.
• Provide operational support for product-related issues.

Skills

Software development or automation scripting (Python, Shell)

Infrastructure as code tooling (GitLab, Terraform)

Agile working practices

Observability tools and techniques

CI/CD pipelines development

Public cloud vendor knowledge (GCP)

DevOps mindset

Experience with GKE or Kubernetes

Knowledge across the infrastructure stack

Job description

Overview

Join us as a GCP Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities

• You'll engineer cloud infrastructure technology, for public cloud environments based on Google Cloud, complying with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in
• You'll also use automation to provide testing and a route to live for the product, working with customers to help them use our products appropriately through CI/CD pipelines
• This is a chance to work with colleagues across the bank to learn and share engineering best practices, allowing you to expand your network and gain exposure for you and your work
• As a GCP Infrastructure Engineer, you'll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, strategic targets and architecture outcomes, along with developing products using modern engineering practices and tools.
• We'll look to you to collaborate with stakeholders to inform product roadmaps, detailing lifecycles of the technology from new products through to end of support and retirement. You'll also support engineered products and respond to user feedback, new feature requests and resolve production issues wanted by the Product Owner.
• Additionally, you'll:
  • Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development and work within a team to design intuitive, self-service infrastructure products
  • Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions
  • Utilise infrastructure as code to develop, deploy and scale cloud applications and products with greater speed, less risk, and reduced costs
  • Develop documentation to support your work, and others to support themselves while aligning to our architectural principals and guiding best practice
  • Work with users to help use our products and gain feedback
  • Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues and support with the architecting and design of our cloud solutions on Google cloud
  • Generate innovative ideas and drive the delivery of those through product features

Skills and requirements

• To thrive in this role, you'll have experience in software development or automation scripting such as Python or Shell, with an understanding of the software development lifecycle. You'll also have experience in utilizing modern infrastructure as code via tooling, ideally GitLab and Terraform.
• We'll expect you to bring a good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets with the ability to relate everyday work to the vision of the feature team, platform and domain. In addition, you'll have experience of using observability tools and techniques and the ability to use data, information and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions.
• Working knowledge of the development of CI/CD pipelines using modern tooling using tools such as Terraform, GitLab and Python
• Public cloud vendor knowledge covering GCP
• An understanding of a DevOps mind-set, collaboration, automation, and tooling
• Experience of GKE or Kubernetes, Istio
• An understanding of Agile methodologies and toolsets such as Jira along with experience of Sentinel
• Knowledge across the Infrastructure stack including server operating systems, virtualisation, databases, middleware and networking

Hours and posting details

Hours: 35

Job Posting Closing Date: 29/09/2025

Ways of Working: Remote First