Closing date for applications: 13/10/2026
Location Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time
Remote / On-site Hybrid
You’ll spend some of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll also regularly work at your office or hub to collaborate with your colleagues.
Managerial / Technical Lead
This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day-to-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details.
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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
Your benefits breakdown
Here’s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.
Tap each segment for details.
Your pay package
100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month.
+10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension.
up to +10% Benefit funding This is monthly funding paid towards a range of benefits you can choose from.
Your leave allowance
30 days Annual leave You’ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.
3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you’re passionate about.
3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.
Total rewards package
Welcome to our Gogarburn hub
Set in large grounds including beautiful woodland, Gogarburn offers a conference centre, a business school with hotel bedrooms, a restaurant, relaxing zen gardens, onsite parking, and excellent transport links.
Key facts:
- Surrounded by 85 acres of woodland
- Our carparks provide electric vehicle charging
- Opened in 2005
Our tech stack
Here’s just some of the technologies we use.
Front end
- JavaScript
- ReactJS
- AngularJS
Back end
- Python
- Java
- Microsoft Dynamics
DevOps
- AWS
- GitLab
- Google Cloud Platform
Data
- Kafka
- Hadoop
- PostgreSQL
- Snowflake
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