Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking an experienced Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer to join our Edinburgh team. You’ll engineer infrastructure technology for cloud environments while ensuring security, resilience, sustainability and observability across platforms.

You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to inform product roadmaps, support engineered products, and drive infrastructure as code initiatives through modern CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• Experience in software development or automation scripting (Python/Shell) and SDLC.
• Experience using infrastructure as code tools to manage environments.
• Solid understanding of Agile practices and tooling.
• Strong IBM Z hardware infrastructure knowledge: DASD, SAN/FICON.
• Experience with GDPS architectures, DR automation and processor management.
• CI/CD pipelines using modern tooling and observability practices.
• Public cloud knowledge across GCP, AWS and Azure; on‑premise datacentre work.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to inform product roadmaps and lifecycle from new products to end of support.
• Support engineered products and respond to user feedback and production issues.
• Develop skills and design self‑service infrastructure products.
• Deliver infrastructure as code solutions and patterns.
• Work with users to gain feedback and improve solutions.
• Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues.
• Generate innovative ideas and drive delivery through product features.

Skills

Python

Shell scripting

Agile

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

GCP

AWS

Azure

Tools

HCD

GDPS

DASD

FICON

Job description

Join us as an Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer

• You’ll engineer infrastructure technology for public and private cloud environments, 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 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
• 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

The skills you’ll need

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.

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 understanding of IBM Z hardware infrastructure, including DASD, SAN/FICON connectivity and network infrastructure
• Experience using Hardware Configuration Definition (HCD) to implement and manage hardware configuration changes within multi-site, multi-sysplex environments
• Strong understanding of GDPS architectures and operations, including processor management, DASD replication, virtual tape technologies and disaster recovery automation
• 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
• Public cloud vendor knowledge covering GCP, AWS and Azure
• Experience of working with technology deployed to an on premise datacentre