Network Security Infrastructure Engineer, Network Traffic Management

NatWest Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in Manchester is seeking a Network Security Infrastructure Engineer responsible for managing network traffic management technologies and collaborating with product teams to develop effective solutions. The ideal candidate will have experience with F5 BIG-IP and Agile practices. You will engineer self-service infrastructure products and provide operational support while working closely with vendors and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience in network traffic management technologies.
• Experience in utilizing infrastructure as code via tooling.
• Strong collaborative communication skills for clear articulation of technical concepts.

Responsibilities

• Manage network traffic management technologies and develop products.
• Collaborate with Product Owners to develop product roadmaps.
• Lead the design and engineering of intuitive infrastructure products.

Skills

F5 BIG-IP

BIG-IQ

nginx

VMware NSX ALB

CI/CD pipelines

Public cloud knowledge (GCP, AWS, Azure)

Agile practices

Job description

Overview

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

• You’ll collaborate in building the best possible solutions for network traffic management in public and private cloud environments and engineer infrastructure technology to comply 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, identifying ways to use new and existing technology tools to enhance performance, removing inefficiencies
• This is a chance to work with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices, allowing you to provide thought leadership while developing solutions

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

The skills you\'ll need

To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience in, and ideally certification in, network traffic management technologies such as F5 BIG-IP, BIG-IQ, nginx, and VMware NSX ALB. 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 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
• Public cloud vendor knowledge covering GCP, AWS and Azure
• Experience of working with technology deployed to an on premise datacentre
• Strong collaborative communication skills for articulating technical concepts clearly to stakeholders