Infrastructure Engineer (Network Routing/Switching Engineer)

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

Job summary

NatWest Group in Bengaluru is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer at associate level to engineer infrastructure technology for public and private cloud environments, ensuring security, resilience, sustainability and operational observability with guardrails built in. You’ll collaborate with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices and expand your network.

You’ll contribute to and manage the technologies needed to meet customer needs and architecture outcomes, inform roadmaps,

Qualifications

• Seven+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise network infrastructure.
• Cisco Catalyst, Nexus and Arista experience.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of technologies to meet customer needs and architecture outcomes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to inform product roadmaps and lifecycle from new products through end of support.
• Support engineered products and respond to user feedback, new feature requests and production issues.
• Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development.
• Design intuitive, self-service infrastructure products in a team.
• 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.

Job description

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.

We’ll look to you to collaborate with stakeholders to inform product roadmaps, detailing lifecycles of the technology from new products through to end of support and retirement. You’ll also 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