Infrastructure Engineer - Network Routing and Switching

NatWest Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to design and maintain enterprise network infrastructure across public and private cloud environments. You will work on automation and IaC, collaborating with product teams to meet security, resilience and operational goals.

You will handle routing/switching, VPN and network security aspects, contributing to incident response and continuous improvement within Agile ITIL delivery frameworks.

Qualifications

• 7+ years hands-on experience with enterprise network infrastructure.
• Experience with Cisco Catalyst, Nexus and Arista platforms.
• Knowledge of L2/L3 networking: STP, OSPF, BGP, VLANs, VXLAN, EVPN.
• Experience with Arista data center fabric.
• Troubleshooting across routing, switching and WAN.
• Exposure to network automation tools like Ansible and Python.
• Operational support and infrastructure project delivery experience.
• Ability to handle major incidents in high-pressure environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with Agile and ITIL delivery models.
• CCNP or Arista certifications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and manage selection, creation and maintenance of technologies for customers and architecture outcomes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to inform product roadmaps and lifecycle.
• Support engineered products and respond to user feedback and incidents.
• Develop self-service infrastructure products and infrastructure as code solutions.
• Work with users to gain feedback and provide operational support.

Skills

Strong communication

Stakeholder management

Agile working practices

ITIL delivery

Incident management

Tools

Cisco Catalyst

Cisco Nexus

Arista switches

VXLAN

EVPN

Ansible

Python

Job description

Infrastructure Engineer (Network Routing/Switching Engineer)

Join us as an Infrastructure Engineer. You’ll engineer infrastructure technology for public and private cloud environments, complying with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in. You’ll also use automation to provide testing and a route to live for the product, working with customers to help them use our products appropriately through a users’ CI or CD pipeline. This is a chance to work with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices, allowing you to expand your network and gain exposure for you and your work. We’re offering this role at associate level.

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.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to inform product roadmaps, detailing lifecycles of the technology from new products through to end of support and retirement.
• Support engineered products and respond to user feedback, new feature requests and resolve production issues wanted by the Product Owner.

Additionally, you’ll

• Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development
• Work within a team to design intuitive, self-service infrastructure products
• Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions
• Work with users to help use our products and gain feedback
• Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues
• Generate innovative ideas and drive 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 experience in utilizing modern infrastructure as code via tooling. We’ll expect you to bring a good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets with the ability to relate everyday work to the vision of the feature team, platform and domain.

Furthermore, you’ll need

• Minimum seven years of hands‑on experience supporting enterprise network infrastructure environments
• Strong experience with Cisco Catalyst, Nexus and Arista platforms
• Good knowledge of Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking technologies including STP, OSPF, BGP, VLANs, VXLAN and EVPN
• Experience supporting Arista data centre fabric environments
• Strong troubleshooting skills across routing, switching, and WAN technologies
• Experience supporting VPN, network security and segmentation solutions
• Exposure to network automation tools such as Ansible, Python or similar technologies
• Experience working in both operational support and infrastructure project delivery environments
• Ability to work effectively during major incidents and within high‑pressure situations
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working within Agile and ITIL-based delivery models
• Cisco CCNP or Arista certifications preferred

Hours 45

Job Posting Closing Date: 19/08/2026

Experience Level Mid Level