DevOps Engineer

Join our digital revolution in NatWest Digital X
In everything we do, we work to one aim. To make digital experiences which are effortless and secure.
So we organise ourselves around three principles: engineer, protect, and operate. We engineer simple solutions, we protect our customers, and we operate smarter.
Job description
This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.

Join us as a DevOps Engineer

• This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to building our DevOps engineering capability, culture and mindsets within the bank
• Promoting technical and cultural change, you'll be accelerating learning journeys and the progressive adoption of our DevOps centre of excellence technical practices and techniques
• As you build relationships with your colleagues, you'll be making sure that decisions are commercially focused and create long term value for the bank

What you'll do
As a DevOps Engineer, you'll be mentoring and coaching feature and platform teams to higher levels of DevOps capability to drive continuous improvements and enhance the end customer experience. You'll assess their current levels of DevOps technical capability to identify any gaps, and support them in closing these through learning workshops and training.
You'll also be:

• Demonstrating how to measure, understand and visualise the flow and delivery of value through adopting DevOps tools, techniques and processes
• Advising teams across platform and within the centre of excellence on which DevOps capability uplifts would be best suited to their needs and abilities
• Providing feedback that builds on policies, standards, practices and associated DevOps tooling
• Making sure decisions made are based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management

The skills you'll need
You'll bring extensive experience in Software Development, CICD Pipelines and automation scripting. You'll work with teams across the bank to improve the platform and support the Cloud and DevOps team. Additionally, you'll enhance the route to live workflows, as well as supporting the migration of services from private cloud to public cloud.
You'll also demonstrate:

• Proficiency with Terraform, Docker & Kubernetes
• Knowledge and experience in AWS hosting and services
• A solid understanding of programming languages, preferably Java Spring boot
• Experience containerising Java applications to run on Amazon EKS
• Demonstratable CI/CD and GitOps experience preferably using Gitlab and ArgoCD
• Automation scripting in Python and Bash
• Experience with Observability tooling such as Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir and Prometheus