NatWest Group

DevOps Engineer, AWS, Kubernetes & GitOps

NatWest Group  •  Manchester, GB (Onsite)  •  9 hours ago
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Job Description

Join us as a DevOps Engineer, AWS, Kubernetes & GitOps

  • You’ll promote technical and cultural change by accelerating learning journeys and the progressive adoption of our DevOps centre‑of‑excellence tools, practices and standards
  • You’ll build trusted partnerships with engineering and platform teams to make resilient, commercially focused, commercially focused technology decisions that deliver long‑term value for the bank
  • Step into a role where you can help build and evolve DevOps capability, culture and ways of working at scale, shaping how engineering gets done across the bank
  • You’ll need to have the flexibility to support the team by working shifts and weekends on rotation

What you'll do

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll work closely with feature and platform teams to design, build and operate cloud native platforms and delivery pipelines. You’ll mentor and coach teams to higher levels of DevOps maturity, helping them adopt modern automation, reliability and operational practices that enhance the end customer experience. You’ll also design, build and operate AWS based platforms with a strong focus on Kubernetes. You’ll assess current DevOps and platform capabilities to identify gaps, and support teams in closing them through hands on enablement, reusable patterns and targeted learning.

You’ll also be:

  • Implementing and supporting GitOps workflows using tools such as Argo CD and GitLab
  • Building and maintaining infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, primarily Terraform
  • Supporting Kubernetes networking, security and observability using tools such as Cilium and the Grafana suite
  • Enabling scalable, efficient and cost aware platforms, including autoscaling approaches such as Karpenter
  • Demonstrating how to measure, understand and visualise the flow and delivery of value using DevOps and reliability metrics
  • Contributing to DevOps centre-of-excellence standards, policies, tooling and reference architectures
  • Making sure platform and delivery decisions are based on robust data, security requirements, return on investment and thoughtful cost management

The skills you'll need

Our bank builds secure, scalable and reliable platforms that power brilliant customer experiences, and we rely on DevOps leaders who can help us deliver them. We’re looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with a strong background in building and operating production grade platforms in cloud environments and deploying and supporting business‑critical systems in production. You’ll also bring the ability to work effectively in regulated or complex organisations.

You’ll thrive in this role if you bring curiosity, a strong engineering instinct and the desire to shape platforms and practices that raise the bar for DevOps across the bank.

You’ll demonstrate:

  • Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform
  • Experience implementing CI/CD and GitOps practices using tools such as GitLab and Argo CD
  • Knowledge of Kubernetes networking, security and observability, ideally including Cilium, Ingress and the Grafana ecosystem
  • Experience working with modern DevOps practices, including automation, reliability engineering and continuous improvement
  • The ability to coach, influence and enable teams, balancing engineering excellence with commercial awareness
  • Strong experience with AWS and container orchestration using Kubernetes and Helm

Hours

35

Job Posting Closing Date:

03/06/2026Ways of Working:Remote First

NatWest Group

About NatWest Group

We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate.

As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these.

Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence.

One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025.

We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Edinburgh, GB
Year Founded
Unknown
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