Devops Engineer REM, Associate Vice President

NatWest Group; Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group in Chennai seeks a DevOps Engineer at AVP level to design, implement and optimize DevOps solutions across the software lifecycle. You will drive automation, system reliability, and alignment with business goals.

The role emphasizes collaboration with Product Owners and Platform Leads, embedding DevOps across teams and ensuring cost-effective, scalable infrastructure while maintaining compliance and security standards.

Qualifications

• Strong DevOps experience across the software development lifecycle.
• Hands-on with CI/CD pipeline design and implementation.
• Familiarity with Gitflow branching strategies and IaC tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design and oversee scalable, reliable system architectures.
• Drive automation to accelerate delivery and improve performance.
• Analyse performance and optimise infrastructure to reduce costs.
• Lead DevOps strategy and roadmap aligned with business goals.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure commercially focused decisions.

Skills

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Gitflow

Containerization

PCF & AWS

SRE

DX

APM

Observability

IaC

YAML

DB2 mainframes

Tools

GitLab

Splunk

PCF

AWS

Job description

Join us as a DevOps Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven individual to take on an exciting new career challenge
• You’ll focus on enhancing the integration of development and platform activities to improve deployment and system reliability
• It’s a chance to have a tangible effect on our function, put your existing skills to the test and advance your career
• We're offering this role at associate vice president level

What you'll do

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing and implementing solutions, driving automation, and optimising performance across the software development lifecycle. You’ll be securing buy-in to DevOps methodologies from the Product Owner, Platform Lead, and other key business stakeholders, driving commitment to an alternative way of working.

We’ll look to you to build and leverage internal and external relationships to make sure that decisions made are commercially focused and create long-term value for the bank. You’ll also be collaborating in the development of the DevOps strategy and roadmap aligned with business goals.

In addition, you’ll be:

• Designing and overseeing the architecture of systems and applications with a focus on scalability and reliability
• Analysing system performance and optimising infrastructure to improve efficiency and reduce costs
• Driving innovation by evaluating and integrating new technologies that enhance the DevOps ecosystem
• Leading the automation of advanced workflows, creating reusable modules and templates
• Making sure that practices align with compliance requirements and industry standards
• Communicating effectively with stakeholders to understand requirements and provide technical guidance

The skills you'll need

To take on this role, you’ll need knowledge of the core principles and benefits of DevOps, paired with experience with common DevOps tools, source code management, deployment, and configuration tooling.

You’ll also need:

• Strong experience in DevOps practices, including GITLAB CI/CD pipeline design and implementation, Gitflow (braching strategy such as trunk based deployment)
• Proficiency in containerization technologies - with PCF and AWS cloud platform skills
• Hands-on expertise in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) with focus on Developer Experience (DX) and Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
• Skilled in observability and monitoring tools, especially Splunk
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Environment as a code and implementation using Yaml scripts
• Preferred Knowledge of Mainframes technologies at least DB2