Principal Infrastructure Engineer

NatWest Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

NatWest Group is seeking a Principal Engineer - Infra to design and engineer scalable, secure platforms with a customer-centric focus. You will lead hosting strategy, automation, and domain-wide infrastructure initiatives across hybrid environments.

You will coordinate multiple teams, implement IaC practices, and influence enterprise architecture to align with business objectives and investor metrics.

Qualifications

• You'll lead engineering and design solutions with focus on automation and resilience.
• You'll drive hosting and infrastructure strategy across cloud and on-prem environments.
• You'll coordinate multiple teams to deliver scalable platform engineering.

Responsibilities

• As Principal Engineer, design and engineer complex software and infra for bank platforms.
• You'll govern hosting strategy across hybrid environments and cloud-native capabilities.
• You'll drive IaC and Environment as Code practices for faster provisioning.
• You'll coordinate feature teams to align with strategic objectives and metrics.

Skills

Software engineering

Architecture design

Cloud platforms

IaC

CI/CD

Automation

Leadership

Distributed systems

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Principal Engineer - Infra Join us as a Principal Engineer You%E2%80%99ll design and engineer software with the customer or user experience in mind, while leading infrastructure and hosting strategy to enable reliable, scalable and efficient platform delivery With your software development background, you%E2%80%99ll work with architects to help define major components of the business-wide target architecture and roadmap, including domain-level infrastructure, hosting and platform engineering strategies You%E2%80%99ll gain valuable senior stakeholder exposure, alongside the opportunity to further develop your technical expertise and leadership skills We are offering this role at Director level

What you%E2%80%99ll do

As a Principal Engineer, you%E2%80%99ll create great customer outcomes through innovative engineering solutions to existing and new challenges, as well as technology designs that are customer centric, high-performing, secure and resilient. You%E2%80%99ll act as a point of contact for solution design considerations, including infrastructure provisioning, environment setup and platform automation. You%E2%80%99ll lead significant, complex and technically challenging assignments, including domain-wide infrastructure and hosting transformation initiatives. We%E2%80%99ll look to you to coordinate multiple feature teams to make sure their technical journeys support strategic objectives and deliver against metrics and outcomes published to our investors. You%E2%80%99ll also be:

• G overning and overseeing engineering and design solutions, with a focus on automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability across infrastructure platforms, hosting environments and cloud-native capabilities
• Working with software engineers and infrastructure engineering teams to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools that support the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services
• Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps, including workload placement strategies across on-premise , private cloud, and public cloud environments, to meet business needs and technical requirements
• Influencing domain and enterprise architecture strategy, identifying opportunities to modernise hosting platforms and optimise cloud adoption
• Defining and driving Infrastructure as Code ( IaC ) and Environment as Code practices to enable faster, standardised and repeatable environment provisioning
• Leading hosting strategy decisions across hybrid environments, securing the right balance of cost, performance, resilience and scalability
• Driving the standardisation and automation of infrastructure and environment provisioning to support CI/CD and accelerate delivery

The skills you%E2%80%99ll need

You%E2%80%99ll bring significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, alongside experience developing software within Agile and DevOps environments. You%E2%80%99ll also have a strong experience of cloud and infrastructure engineering practices and shaping infrastructure strategy at scale. Alongside an expert understanding of emerging technologies, tools and market trends, you%E2%80%99ll bring significant experience implementing engineering best practice across scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance. You%E2%80%99ll have deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures, infrastructure automation and distributed systems, with experience guiding workload hosting decisions across complex environments. You%E2%80%99ll also need:

• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP, and hybrid infrastructure environments
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation, alongside environment automation practices
• Experience defining workload hosting strategies and managing environment lifecycles across hybrid infrastructure environments
• Significant experience of test-driven development and using automated testing frameworks, mocking, stubbing and unit testing tools
• Experience designing or implementing APIs that support scalable platform and infrastructure services
• The ability to rapidly understand business and product requirements and translate them into effective technical solutions

Hours 45 Job Posting Closing Date: 23/07/2026 Experience Level Senior Level