DevOps Engineer, AWS, Kubernetes & GitOps

Closing date for applications: 03/06/2026

Location Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Salary £55,480 – £83,220

Job typePermanent \| Contract typeFull Time

Mostly Remote

You’ll spend most of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll come into an office or hub at least twice a month 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
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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
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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, AWS, Kubernetes \& GitOps

• You’ll promote technical and cultural change by accelerating learning journeys and the progressive adoption of our DevOps centre‑of‑excellence tools, practices and standards


• You’ll build trusted partnerships with engineering and platform teams to make resilient, commercially focused, commercially focused technology decisions that deliver long‑term value for the bank


• Step into a role where you can help build and evolve DevOps capability, culture and ways of working at scale, shaping how engineering gets done across the bank


• You’ll need to have the flexibility to support the team by working shifts and weekends on rotation

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll work closely with feature and platform teams to design, build and operate cloud native platforms and delivery pipelines. You’ll mentor and coach teams to higher levels of DevOps maturity, helping them adopt modern automation, reliability and operational practices that enhance the end customer experience. You’ll also design, build and operate AWS based platforms with a strong focus on Kubernetes. You’ll assess current DevOps and platform capabilities to identify gaps, and support teams in closing them through hands on enablement, reusable patterns and targeted learning.

You’ll also be:

• Implementing and supporting GitOps workflows using tools such as Argo CD and GitLab


• Building and maintaining infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, primarily Terraform


• Supporting Kubernetes networking, security and observability using tools such as Cilium and the Grafana suite


• Enabling scalable, efficient and cost aware platforms, including autoscaling approaches such as Karpenter


• Demonstrating how to measure, understand and visualise the flow and delivery of value using DevOps and reliability metrics


• Contributing to DevOps centre\-of\-excellence standards, policies, tooling and reference architectures


• Making sure platform and delivery decisions are based on robust data, security requirements, return on investment and thoughtful cost management

Our bank builds secure, scalable and reliable platforms that power brilliant customer experiences, and we rely on DevOps leaders who can help us deliver them. We’re looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer with a strong background in building and operating production grade platforms in cloud environments and deploying and supporting business‑critical systems in production. You’ll also bring the ability to work effectively in regulated or complex organisations.

You’ll thrive in this role if you bring curiosity, a strong engineering instinct and the desire to shape platforms and practices that raise the bar for DevOps across the bank.

You’ll demonstrate:

• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform


• Experience implementing CI/CD and GitOps practices using tools such as GitLab and Argo CD


• Knowledge of Kubernetes networking, security and observability, ideally including Cilium, Ingress and the Grafana ecosystem


• Experience working with modern DevOps practices, including automation, reliability engineering and continuous improvement


• The ability to coach, influence and enable teams, balancing engineering excellence with commercial awareness


• Strong experience with AWS and container orchestration using Kubernetes and Helm

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.

Please note, the presented benefits packages are based on the minimum base salary.

Tap each segment for details.

Your pay package

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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
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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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