NatWest Group

DevOps engineer in banking

In short

DevOps Engineer role at a bank, focused on mentoring feature and platform teams to raise their DevOps maturity, improving CI/CD, GitOps and cloud migration (private to public cloud). Requires solid experience with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Java Spring Boot, GitLab/ArgoCD, Python/Bash scripting and observability tools like Grafana and Prometheus. Full-time, onsite in London, mid-level position with at least 2 years of relevant experience.

About the role
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.
Responsibilities
•Mentoring and coaching feature and platform teams to higher levels of DevOps capability to drive continuous improvements and enhance the end customer experience
•Assessing teams' current levels of DevOps technical capability to identify any gaps, and supporting them in closing these through learning workshops and training
•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
•Working with teams across the bank to improve the platform and support the Cloud and DevOps team
•Enhancing the route to live workflows, as well as supporting the migration of services from private cloud to public cloud
Requirements
•Extensive experience in Software Development, CI/CD Pipelines and automation scripting
•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
Conditions
No conditions stated in the posting.

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