Infrastructure Engineer, VP

Join us at Natwest in the fight against Financial Crime as a Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineer.

This is a SME Technology Leadership role within the Financial Crime domain where you will provide expert guidance to the Central Cloud Engineering team, ensuring the usage of engineering best practices across the estate and developing the teams knowledge and skills to the next level from your own engineering experience.

• We’ll look to you to deliver the engineering of innovative AWS infrastructure technologies to support our Fin Crime applications – from both an SME consultation and hands-on engineering perspective
• In order to achieve a first-class customer experience, you’ll make sure that the project deliverables can achieve the customers’ goals, within a well-considered total cost of ownership
• You’ll work with colleagues across the bank, allowing you to expand your network and gain exposure for you and your work
• We're offering this role at vice president level

As a Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll be engineering technical cloud infrastructures for departmental applications and services. You’ll be working on service or change initiatives, ensuring their availability and maintaining, managing and deploying technology infrastructure on behalf of either the function or investment projects.

You’ll also be:

• Reviewing deployment documentation for all departmental infrastructure components from application and development
• Providing a base build for the development environment for the system and handover to the application and development teams
• Building the user acceptance testing environment for the system and managing all updates to the departmental infrastructure during the migration phase of the system
• Creating technical test plans and recording results for the infrastructure components, as well as engaging the application and development teams to assist with conducting these tests
• Creating technical implementation plans and running books for system deliveries

To succeed in this role, you’ll need significant experience in an SME role in AWS infrastructure engineering. SME level knowledge in terraform, GitLab, CI/CD pipelines. You'll also have proven ability and experience in embedding public cloud engineering best practices across a large infrastructure estate, coaching engineers to enable and ensure the implementation of these best practices in FinOps, cost optimization, security, fix before deploy strategy, CI/CD pipelines, efficiency and resiliency of infrastructure.

You'll fulfil the role of Senior AWS Infrastructure Engineering SME for the infrastructure engineering team and be a point of consultation and authority re infra engineering activities across the team and the wider domain.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• A broad understanding of infrastructure layers or stack, with a broad knowledge across multiple platforms
• An understanding of the roadmap of your area of expertise
• The ability to work with design authorities to deploy cost effective and resilient solutions
• Significant experience of contributing to roadmaps and strategies, and working closely with third parties, assuring output and managing performance
• Excellent collaboration and influencing skills

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