Senior Platform Engineer
| Posting date: | 06 March 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 April 2026 |
| Location: | London, EC2M 4AA |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00272546 |
Summary
Join us as a Senior Platform Engineer
In this high-profile role, you’ll have the opportunity to add real value and deliver tangible results by designing, building, and improving our platforms
We’ll look to you to ensure our platforms are secure, scalable, and available, while collaborating across teams to share and reuse best practices and technology stacks
If you’re passionate about cloud engineering, automation, and enabling teams to move faster and safer, this role provides the ideal environment to hone your craft and grow your career
What you'll do
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll ensure that our platforms are robust, cost-effective, and continuously optimised. You’ll be responsible for consistently enhancing the technology stack by adding new features and ensuring defects are resolved in a timely manner. We’ll also look to you to contribute to the code base, making sure it remains clean, elegant, reusable, and easy to maintain and extend.
In addition, you’ll be:
Proactively performing code and design peer reviews
Making sure that platforms and operational issues, defects, and maintenance activities are appropriately prioritised, delivering highly available and high-performing solutions
Owning, developing, and improving platform engineering tools, processes, and ways of working
Pioneering new ideas to improve platform delivery lifecycles, from design, coding, and automation through to effective operational support
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with strong cloud platform engineering experience, particularly in designing and operating secure, scalable, and high‑performing platforms. You’ll also need to be able to thrive in a fast-paced engineering environment and contribute to improving the overall engineering maturity, supported by extensive hands-on experience in Azure, as well as design, build, and deployment expertise using CI/CD practices.
In addition, you’ll need:
Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills
Hands-on experience with Microsoft tools and technologies
Experience in real-time logging and monitoring