Senior DevOps Engineer
| Posting date: | 20 January 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 19 February 2026 |
| Location: | London, EC2M 4AA |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00269100 |
Summary
Join us as a Senior 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
You'll work from home some of the time, but you'll also spend a significant amount of time working from an office or hub
What you'll do
As a Senior 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
We’re looking for a proactive Senior DevOps Engineer with extensive experience in design, build and deployment of Microsoft tech stacks, particularly Azure cloud, PaaS resources, and AKS Implementations
You'll provide technical leadership and support to software engineers and more junior DevOps team members, accelerating learning journeys and the progressive adoption of the DevOps technical practices and techniques.
You’ll also demonstrate:
Hands-on experience deploying business-critical systems to production with Azure DevOps, including Repos, advanced Pipelines and package management
Experience with Infrastructure as Code, and technologies such as PowerShell, JSON, Azure Bicep and Azure ARM
Experience of real-time logging and monitoring, using tools such as Grafana stack, Log Analytics and AppInsights
Good knowledge of cloud native, micro services including containerisation, API Management and managing Kubernetes-based workloads
Knowledge around Azure AD, Microsoft 365, Device Management/Defender ATP and cloud security and experience of delivering effective cloud policies