Site Reliability Engineer

Closing date for applications: 03/06/2026

Location Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Salary £46,113 – £65,100

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.

Experienced

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 Site Reliability Engineer

• In this role, you’ll support improvements to availability, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, security, incident response, and capacity planning for our products and services


• You’ll enjoy significant stakeholder interaction, working in collaboration with engineers to ensure a principled approach to delivering change in a safe and secure way


• This is a chance to join an inclusive team with a collaborative ethos and a commitment to innovation and professional development


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

As our Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll contribute to the reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence of cloud\-native platforms. You’ll work closely with senior engineers to support production systems, implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, and ensure services are observable, scalable, and resilient. You’ll also participate in the 24/7 support and on\-call rotation, gaining experience in incident response and platform operations.

In this role, we’ll expect you to be involved as well in the operation of AWS\-based Kubernetes platforms (EKS) while contributing to monitoring, alerting, and observability implementations using tools like Grafana and Prometheus. You’ll also assist in incident management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.

In addition, you’ll be:

• Participating in on\-call rotations and production support activities


• Implementing infrastructure changes using Terraform and GitOps workflows


• Supporting continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using GitLab, Argo CD, and deployment processes


• Helping improve system reliability through automation and operational improvements


• Following SRE practices such as runbooks, documentation, and post\-incident reviews


• Working with DevOps and engineering teams to improve system performance and stability


• Ensuring solutions align with security, compliance, and operational standards

We’re looking for an engineer with solid foundational experience in cloud platforms and a keen interest in reliability engineering and production operations. You must have experience working with AWS and Kubernetes (EKS) in a production or pre\-production environment, along with familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and Prometheus. To succeed in this role, you should also have a good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and Git\-based workflows, with GitLab preferred.

You'll also need:

• Exposure to Terraform or infrastructure\-as\-code concepts


• A basic understanding of SRE practices and production support models


• Experience troubleshooting applications or infrastructure issues


• An awareness of networking and security fundamentals in cloud environments


• A willingness to participate in on\-call rotations and incident response


• A strong problem\-solving mindset and an eagerness to learn


• Good communication and collaboration skills

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

28 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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