Network Security Technical Design Architect

NatWest Group; London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Network Security Technical Design Architect to innovate and enhance security solutions. In this role, you will collaborate across teams to create cutting-edge infrastructure technology for public and private cloud environments. You will champion automation and lead the design of self-service products while fostering a culture of best practices and community engagement. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact by developing customer-centric products and driving technical leadership in a dynamic and supportive environment. Join a forward-thinking organization that values your expertise and creativity.

Qualifications

• Experience in design and architecture of enterprise application delivery controller solutions.
• Proven experience implementing enterprise solutions using F5 LTM, DNS, and AWAF.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and engineering of intuitive, self-service infrastructure products.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop product roadmaps and manage product lifecycles.

Skills

F5 ADCs

NGINX ingress for Kubernetes

Automation

DevOps

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

AWS public cloud networking

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Networking (CCNA or CCNP)

Tools

GitLab

Job description

Network Security Technical Design Architect

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 the 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, manage the lifecycle of the products, support engineered products to respond to customer feedback, new feature requests, resolve production issues, and help customers consume our products.

Additionally, you’ll:

• Lead the design and engineering of intuitive, self-service infrastructure products within your team.
• 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 practices.
• Use market insights to introduce innovative ideas and drive their delivery 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. Knowledge of public cloud vendors like GCP and Azure would be beneficial.

Furthermore, you’ll need:

• Proven experience implementing enterprise solutions using F5 LTM, DNS, and AWAF.
• Experience with NGINX ingress controller and NGINX App Protect for Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS public cloud networking and automated deployments using Terraform.
• Knowledge and experience of Kubernetes, preferably OpenShift.
• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines using modern tools such as GitLab.
• A solid foundation in networking (e.g., CCNA or CCNP level knowledge); valid certification not required.
• The ability to explore multiple approaches, seek new ideas from different sources, overcome barriers, and generate innovative solutions to best serve our customers.

Hours

35 hours per week.

Job Posting Closing Date: 05/05/2025

Ways of Working: Remote First

About the company

NatWest Group plc is a majority state-owned British banking and insurance holding company, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.