Network Security Infrastructure Engineer, Network Traffic Management

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group in Edinburgh seeks a Network Security Infrastructure Engineer to design, build and maintain scalable traffic‑management and security platforms for enterprise services.

You will drive automation with GitLab CI/CD and Ansible, contribute to IaC, and mentor peers while collaborating with Product Owners to roadmap and secure delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern tooling.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure as code and automation practices.
• Ability to work with agile teams and contribute to product roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and engineering of self‑service infrastructure products.
• Develop technical skills and promote continuous learning.
• Contribute to IaC delivery and automation of infrastructure services.
• Collaborate with vendors and stakeholders to support product delivery.
• Provide support for pattern or product related issues.

Skills

GitLab CI/CD

Ansible

Infrastructure as Code

Agile

Observability

Release Train

Platform engineering

Tools

F5 BIG-IP

NGINX Ingress Controller

NGINX App Protect

Broadcom AVI Load Balancer

Job description

Join us as a Network Security Infrastructure Engineer, Network Traffic Management

• You’ll collaborate across boundaries to build the best possible solutions for enterprise application delivery and security platformsand develop infrastructure technology to comply with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in
• You’ll also champion and drive the use of automation to provide testing and a route to live for the product along with coaching and mentoring other engineers and collaborating on developmental activities
• This is a chance to create an environment to build communities with colleagues across bank and share engineering best practices, allowing you to provide thought leadership while developing solutions

What you'll do

As a Network Security Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of network traffic management 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 Product Owners to develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of the team's products and support engineered products to respond to customer feedback, new feature requests, resolve production issues and help customers consume our products.

Additionally, you’ll:

• Take a lead role within a team to design and engineer intuitive, self-service infrastructure products
• Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development
• Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions
• Build an awareness of design thinking tools and techniques with users in order to improve your product
• Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues
• Work with key vendors in the delivery of the infrastructure services and technology for the product

The skills you'll need

To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience in platform automation using GitLab CI/CD and Ansible, with an understanding of the software development lifecycle. You’ll also have a strong 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 create the vision for the Release Train, feature team, platform and domain.

Furthermore, you’ll need:

• Experience of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling
• Experience in software testing practices and tools and in using observability tools and techniques with the ability to use data, information and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions
• Experience with F5 BIG-IP (LTM, DNS/GTM, Advanced WAF), NGINX Ingress Controller, NGINX App Protect, and Broadcom AVI Load Balancer platforms
• Experience of working with technology deployed to an on premise datacentre
• Strong collaborative communication skills for articulating technical concepts clearly to stakeholders