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Platform Engineer

Natwest, South Gyle, City of Edinburgh

Platform Engineer

Salary Not Specified

Natwest, South Gyle, City of Edinburgh

  • Full time
  • Permanent

Posted today, 15 Nov | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: 22822_R-00242985-OTHLOC-GBR-5FEDI034

Full Job Description

Join us as a Platform 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

What you'll do

As a Platform 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 someone with experience of Agile with demonstrable experience in Scrum. You'll also have the ability to mentor junior engineers.

You’ll also demonstrate:

  • Experience of deploying business critical systems to production and an expert background in coding such as Java and Go desirable
  • Experience of scripting using bash and python, managing Infrastructure such as Terraform and a good understanding of Kubernetes and Cloud technologies such as AWS
  • Knowledge and experience of Agile frameworks and methodologies, within an Agile or DevOps environment