DevOps Engineer, Network Automation
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Posted 2 days ago
About the role
Closing date for applications: 02/09/2026
Location Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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
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
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, Network Automation
- We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our Network Automation team, helping design, build and operate automation capabilities that make network and infrastructure services faster, safer and more reliable
- You’ll work across automation, infrastructure-as-code and network-as-code practices, supporting secure, compliant and auditable change within a highly regulated financial services environment
- This is your opportunity to deepen your expertise across modern automation, cloud-native platforms and AI-enabled engineering while working on business-critical infrastructure
What you'll do
As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll help develop and enhance automation patterns, pipelines and tools that support network and infrastructure services from concept through to operational support. Working closely with engineers, platform teams and service owners, you’ll build reusable automation, improve delivery efficiency and embed DevOps best practice across the engineering lifecycle.
You’ll also be:
- Designing, building and maintaining network and infrastructure automation using modern DevOps practices
- Delivering automation through code-based CI/CD pipelines, with GitLab experience helping you hit the ground running
- Applying infrastructure-as-code and network-as-code principles to create repeatable, controlled and auditable delivery patterns
- Embedding security, compliance and risk controls into automation and pipeline design
- Supporting automated change, incident and operational workflows, including ServiceNow integration where appropriate
- Working with container platforms such as OpenShift or Kubernetes to support automation services and workloads
- Exploring practical uses of AI-enabled tooling and workflows to improve operational efficiency, engineering productivity and service reliability
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with hands-on engineering experience, a strong automation mindset and a solid understanding of enterprise networking. You’ll be comfortable working in a DevOps environment where quality, security and operational resilience are built into every stage of delivery. You’ll also bring experience of network automation within large-scale financial services or other regulated environments.
You'll also need experience using AI-enabled tooling to improve engineering outcomes, and scripting capability in Python and Shell for automation workflows, integrations and operational tooling, along with hands-on experience with Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform for network and infrastructure automation at scale.
You’ll also demonstrate:
- Experience delivering automation through code-based CI/CD pipelines, with knowledge of GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps or similar platforms
- Solid understanding of enterprise networking concepts, including DNS, LDAP, load balancing and traffic management
- Ability to embed security practices into CI/CD pipelines so changes are compliant, auditable and risk-aware.
- Familiarity with ServiceNow or similar IT service management tooling for change, incident and workflow automation
- Experience with OpenShift, Kubernetes or similar container for deployment and workload management
Your benefits breakdown
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.
Tap each segment for details.
Your pay package
100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month.
+10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension.
up to +10% Benefit funding This is monthly funding paid towards a range of benefits you can choose from.
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
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