Senior Infrastructure Engineer

NatWest Group; City of Edinburgh; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in Edinburgh seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design and develop cloud infrastructure solutions. You'll collaborate with teams to enhance automation and product lifecycle management, ensure high availability systems, and lead efforts in innovative technology solutions while offering mentoring support to fellow engineers.

Benefits

Flexi-working hours

Qualifications

• Experience in software development or automation scripting, such as Python or Shell.
• Strong collaborative communication skills.
• Experience with public cloud platforms, including GCP, AWS, and Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design and engineer self-service infrastructure products.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to manage product lifecycle.
• Lead technical role in programme increment planning.

Skills

Software development or automation scripting (Python or Shell)

Collaborative communication

Agile working practices

Development of CI or CD pipelines

Public cloud vendor knowledge (GCP, AWS, Azure)

RDBMS platform technology

Tools

GitOps

Observability tools

Job description

Overview

Join us as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer

• 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
• This role comes with flexi-working, so you can start and end work when you want, as long as you work your weekly hours and you're working within core times

What you'll do

As an Infrastructure Engineer, 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 for strategic RDBMS database platforms
• 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

To thrive in this role, you\'ll have experience in software development or automation scripting such as Python or Shell, with an understanding of the software development lifecycle. You\'ll also have a strong experience in utilizing modern infrastructure as code via tooling.

We\'re looking for a strong collaborative communicator who can articulate technical concepts clearly to peers and customers. We\'ll also expect you to have a strong 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:

• A strong experience of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling within a GitOps framework
• A strong 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 RDBMS platform technology deployed to private, hybrid or public cloud hosted platforms
• 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

Hours: 35

Job Posting Closing Date: 10/10/2025

Ways of Working: Remote First