Network Security Technical Design Architect

NatWest; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Edinburgh is seeking a Network Security Technical Design Architect. This role involves designing and engineering self-service infrastructure products, collaborating with stakeholders, and providing technical leadership. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with F5 ADCs, NGINX ingress, automation, and public cloud networking. Competitive salary packages and opportunities for professional growth are offered.

Qualifications

• Proven track record implementing enterprise solutions using F5 LTM, DNS, and AWAF.
• Experience with automated deployments using Terraform.
• A solid foundation in Networking such as CCNA or CCNP level knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to develop product roadmaps and manage product lifecycle.
• Design and engineer intuitive, self-service infrastructure products.
• Proactively scan the market to create customer-centric products.

Skills

Strong collaborative communication

Experience in design and architecture of ADC solutions

Automation and DevOps

Public cloud knowledge (GCP, Azure)

Tools

F5 ADCs

NGINX ingress controller

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitLab

Job description

Join us as a Network Security Technical Design Architect

• You’ll collaborate across boundaries to build the best possible solutions for public and private cloud environments and 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 Technical Design Architect, 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 develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of the 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
• Be responsible for developing technology standards and patterns within the Network Security Platform
• Proactively scan the external market and use internal insights, translating these into customer centric products
• Provide technical leadership in the development of high availability, low cost systems
• Take a lead technical role in programme increment planning, system demos and retrospective sessions
• Create and participate in a community of practice, sharing learnings and best practice with the community
• Use market insights to introduce innovative ideas and driving the delivery of those through product features

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for a strong collaborative communicator who can articulate technical concepts clearly to peers and customers.

To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience in design and architecture of enterprise application delivery controller (ADC) solutions, involving vendor technologies such as F5 ADCs and NGINX ingress for Kubernetes. Experience with automation, DevOps, and infrastructure as code (IaC) is essential. Public cloud vendor knowledge covering GCP and Azure would be beneficial.

Furthermore, you’ll need:

• Proven track record implementing enterprise solutions using F5 LTM, DNS, and AWAF
• Experience of NGINX ingress controller and NGINX App Protect for Kubernetes
• Experience of AWS public cloud networking and automated deployments using Terraform
• Knowledge and experience of Kubernetes, preferably Openshift
  Experience of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling such as GitLab
• A solid foundation in Networking such as, CCNA or CCNP level knowledge, valid certification not required
• The ability to explore multiple approaches and seek new ideas from different sources to overcome barriers and generate innovative solutions to be the best for our customers