DevOps Platform Engineer

NatWest
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Java
Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
DevOps
Python
Systems Development Life Cycle
Prompt Engineering
Gitlab
Git Flow
Kubernetes
Terraform

Job description

  • 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 Platform Engineer, you'll be working with feature and platform teams to design, develop and deploy AWS based platforms for running customer facing workloads at scale. Along the way you'll also be using your experience to help coach those feature teams to higher levels of DevOps capability to drive continuous improvements and enhance the end customer experience.

You'll also be:

  • Demonstrating how to measure, understand and visualise the flow and delivery of value through adopting DevOps tools, techniques and processes
  • 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

Requirements

Do you have experience in Terraform?, Approaching infrastructure engineering with a development and engineering mindset, you'll have a strong focus on automation and testing to deliver the levels of resilience and performance required to support bank-critical systems, while also optimising cost and carbon efficiency throughout.

Skills in Backstage, Java development and Prompt engineering, and AI automation would be hugely beneficial.

You'll also demonstrate:

  • Expert knowledge and proficiency of AWS and Kubernetes
  • Experience of ArgoCD, GitOps, Terraform and Python development
  • Experience of building and engineering comprehensive GitLab or similar CI/CD pipelines covering the full SDLC

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