Infrastructure Engineer, Db2

NatWest Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer focused on Db2. You will engineer Db2 for z/OS infrastructure, ensuring security, resilience, and observability while implementing automated testing and route-to-live through CI/CD pipelines.

You will collaborate across the bank to design and maintain technologies, respond to user feedback, and develop infrastructure as code with strong SQL tuning and backup strategies.

Qualifications

• Experience in Db2 database design and administration.
• Automation scripting such as Python or Shell.
• Experience with modern infrastructure as code tooling (IaC).
• Understanding of Agile practices and tooling.
• Experience with Db2 for z/OS and SQL performance reviews.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain technologies to meet customer needs and architecture goals.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to design and support engineered products.
• Design intuitive, self-service infrastructure products.
• Deliver infrastructure as code solutions.
• Provide operational support for pattern or product issues.
• Drive delivery of innovative ideas through product features.
• Advise and deliver projects using Db2 for z/OS design principles and best practices.

Tools

IBM Db2 toolset

Infrastructure as code tooling

Job description

Join us as an Infrastructure Engineer, Db2

• You’ll engineer Db2 related infrastructure technology 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 a users’ CI or CD pipeline
• This is a chance to work with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices, allowing you to expand your network and gain exposure for you and your work

What you'll do

As an 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 design and 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
• Work within a team to design intuitive, self-service infrastructure products
• Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions
• Work with users to help use our products and gain feedback
• Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues
• Generate innovative ideas and drive the delivery of those through product features
• Advise and deliver projects using Db2 for z/OS database design principles and best practices

The skills you'll need

To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience in Db2 database design and administration, 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. Experience with IBM Db2 toolset will be beneficial.

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.

Furthermore, you’ll need:

• Strong experience in Db2 for z/OS database design principles and best practices
• Proven experience conducting SQL performance reviews and optimization
• Hands-on experience with DDL deployments and implementation in accordance with established standards and governance
• Ability to design and implement robust housekeeping, backup, and recovery strategies
• Working knowledge of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling
• Experience of using observability tools and techniques and the ability to use data, information and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions
• Experience of working with technology deployed to an on premise datacentre
• An understanding of a DevOps mind‑set, collaboration, automation and tooling