Network Security Infrastructure Engineer, Network Traffic Management

NatWest Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group in Manchester is seeking a Network Security Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement and manage network traffic management solutions that meet security, resilience and operational goals.

You will collaborate with Product Owners to roadmap features and manage lifecycles, delivering scalable, observable infrastructure and self-service capabilities while mentoring peers and driving DevOps practices across the team.

Qualifications

• Experience in network security infrastructure and automation.
• Proficient in CI/CD with GitLab and Ansible.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tooling.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead 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 to improve the product.
• Provide operational support for product-related issues.
• Work with key vendors in delivering infrastructure services and technology.

Skills

GitLab CI/CD

Ansible

Infrastructure as code

Automation

Agile

Communication

Tools

NGINX Ingress Controller

NGINX App Protect

F5 BIG-IP

Broadcom AVI Load Balancer

On-premise data center

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