Join us as a Public Cloud Senior GCP DevOps Engineer
* If you’re ready for a new challenge in the Cloud engineering space, we think you’ll find what you’re looking for when you join our Public Cloud Engineering team
* You’ll be using modern engineering practices and tools to develop cloud products that deliver better real-time predictions, faster responses, and more fluid customer experiences
* With continuous investments in our engineering capability backed by strong executive support, you’ll be encouraged to grow your skillset, share best practice, and pursue the certifications you need to achieve your potential
* Expect to gain unique experience that will bring a competitive edge to your career profile, as you help us extend the power and intelligence of the cloud to the brink of possibility for millions of people, families and businesses across the UK
What you'll do
It’s an exciting time to be an engineer at NatWest Group.
With our cloud-based transformation well underway, our engineers are using modern engineering practices to explore the full potential of the cloud. And as our focus moves from what goes on behind the scenes to what our customers can see, our engineers are reimagining tomorrow’s banking experience and developing innovative products and experiences for our customers, today.
This is where your fun begins as a Public Cloud Senior GCP DevOps Engineer. With our customers at the heart of your approach, we want you to work at the leading edge of technological transformation to explore new technologies, meddle with the status quo, and approach failure as a building block of innovation to solve complex issues rapidly and iteratively for our customers.
Day to day, we want you to:
* Experiment with new technologies and test ideas to generate innovative solutions for our customers
* Collaborate with our customers, vendors and other tech teams to build simple, available and scalable solutions
* Engineer public and private cloud products that are safe, secure and sustainable
* Utilise infrastructure as code (IaC) to develop, deploy and scale cloud applications and products with greater speed, less risk, and reduced costs
* Encourage the use of automation to provide testing and a route to go-live for new products
* Join technology communities of practice across the bank to share engineering best practice and experience
* Use market insights to introduce innovative ideas and drive the delivery of these through to product features
* Maintain engineered products by responding to customer feedback, new feature requests, production issues, and customer help requests
* Coach and mentor other engineers and collaborate on developmental activities
The skills you'll need
We’re a diverse team with broad skillsets, a passion for learning, and an unwavering customer focus. If this resonates with you and you share any of the skills below, there’s a place for you on our journey to the future of banking.
Your technical skillset might include:
* Demonstrate expert experience in GCP (ideally GCP Solution Architect certification)
* Demonstrate a strong experience DevOps automation and tools like Terraform, IaC, Python, and GitLab
* Demonstrate Software development or scripting skills
* Practical experience of the SDLC and testing
* A strong understanding of Agile methodologies and toolsets such as Jira
* A strong knowledge across the Infrastructure stack such as server, operating system, virtualisation, database, middleware or network
And you’ll bring this all together with your:
* Strong technical/leadership skills and ability to contribute to strategic visions including setting strategy, roadmaps and design
* Great collaboration and stakeholder management skills
* Capacity to focus on the customer and empathise with them
* Ability to clearly explain technical concepts to different audiences
* Experience of contributing to roadmaps and strategies
* Drive to make sure that solutions have security considered from the outset