Job Description

Join us as an Infrastructure Engineer

• We\xe2\x80\x99ll look to you to develop and implement core infrastructure technologies, products and services against customer and non-functional requirements
• In order to achieve a first-class customer experience, you\xe2\x80\x99ll make sure the infrastructure technology is engineered to comply with security, availability and resilience, performance and capacity
• You\xe2\x80\x99ll work with colleagues across the bank, allowing you to expand your network and gain exposure for you and your work
• We\'re offering this role at associate vice president l

What you\'ll do

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you\xe2\x80\x99ll be contributing to and managing the selection, creation and maintenance of infrastructure technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, ensuring alignment to the Chief Technology Office (CTO) strategic targets and architecture outcomes. Throughout the course of your work, we\xe2\x80\x99ll look to you to help produce high availability and low-cost systems.

You\xe2\x80\x99ll also be:

• Producing and providing ongoing management of infrastructure roadmaps, detailing lifecycles of the technology from new products and versions, through to end of support and retirement
• Providing operational support to other infrastructure teams in the event of major incidents or complex technical issues
• Building and leveraging relationships with colleagues across bank to make sure decisions made are commercially focused and create long term value for the bank
• Fulfilling business continuity requirements by participating in disaster recovery exercises
• Making sure that decisions are made based on robust data, return on investment and value measures that demonstrate thoughtful and intelligent cost management

The skills you\'ll need

To succeed in this role, you\xe2\x80\x99ll need the ability to understand how your area of expertise supports customers, from the core development of technology to risk based decisions. On top of this, you\xe2\x80\x99ll need a clear understanding of infrastructure layers or stack, and a broad knowledge across multiple platforms such as server, operating system, virtualisation, database, middleware or network.

Along with experience of contributing to roadmaps and strategies and working closely with third parties on assurance of their output and managing their performance, you\xe2\x80\x99ll need the ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to your peers and management level colleagues, with good collaboration and stakeholder management skills. You should have good knowledge in Puppet, cloud databases, Oracle to PostgreSQL migration and PostgreSQL or Sybase database administration

You\xe2\x80\x99ll also demonstrate:

• A good understanding of IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and cloud technologies
• A good understanding of Agile methodologies paired with working knowledge of the Agile toolsets and experience of working in an Agile team
• The ability to relate everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature team, platform and domain
• A clear understanding of the DevOps mind-set, collaboration, automation and tooling
• A background of working in a complex, multi-disciplined matrix team

Hours 45

Job Posting Closing Date: 16/01/2024

NatWest Group