Senior DevOps Engineer

NatWest Group; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a proactive Senior DevOps Engineer to drive the adoption of DevOps practices within their teams. This role involves mentoring software engineers and supporting the enhancement of DevOps capabilities, particularly using Azure cloud technologies. The position offers a remote-first working model, emphasizing strong technical leadership and continuous improvement in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in design, build and deployment of Microsoft tech stacks.
• Hands-on experience deploying business-critical systems to production.
• Knowledge around Azure AD and cloud security.

Responsibilities

• Mentoring and coaching teams to enhance DevOps capability.
• Advising teams on suitable DevOps capability uplifts.
• Ensuring decisions are based on robust data and cost management.

Skills

Azure cloud

PaaS resources

AKS Implementations

Azure DevOps

Infrastructure as Code

PowerShell

Grafana stack

Kubernetes

Job description

Overview

Join us as a Senior DevOps Engineer

• This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to building our DevOps engineering capability, culture and mindsets within the bank
• Promoting technical and cultural change, you’ll be accelerating learning journeys and the progressive adoption of our DevOps centre of excellence technical practices and techniques
• As you build relationships with your colleagues, you’ll be making sure that decisions are commercially focused and create long term value for the bank
• You’ll work from home some of the time, but you’ll also spend a significant amount of time working from an office or hub

What you’ll do

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll be mentoring and coaching feature and platform teams to higher levels of DevOps capability to drive continuous improvements and enhance the end customer experience. You’ll assess their current levels of DevOps technical capability to identify any gaps, and support them in closing these through learning workshops and training.

You’ll also be:

• Demonstrating how to measure, understand and visualise the flow and delivery of value through adopting DevOps tools, techniques and processes
• Advising teams across platform and within the centre of excellence on which DevOps capability uplifts would be best suited to their needs and abilities
• Providing feedback that builds on policies, standards, practices and associated DevOps tooling
• Making sure decisions made are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management

The skills you’ll need

We’re looking for a proactive Senior DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in design, build and deployment of Microsoft tech stacks, particularly Azure cloud, PaaS resources, and AKS Implementations

You’ll provide technical leadership and support to software engineers and more junior DevOps team members, accelerating learning journeys and the progressive adoption of the DevOps technical practices and techniques.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Hands‑on experience deploying business‑critical systems to production with Azure DevOps, including Repos, advanced Pipelines and package management
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, and technologies such as PowerShell, JSON, Azure Bicep and Azure ARM
• Experience of real‑time logging and monitoring, using tools such as Grafana stack, Log Analytics and AppInsights
• Good knowledge of cloud native, micro services including containerisation, API Management and managing Kubernetes‑based workloads
• Knowledge around Azure AD, Microsoft 365, Device Management/Defender ATP and cloud security and experience of delivering effective cloud policies

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date

21/01/2026

Ways of Working

Remote First