19 Lead Cloud Platform Engineer jobs in Edinburgh

Closing date for applications: 01/09/2026

Location Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Salary £46,113 – £65,100

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

Remote / On-site Hybrid

You’ll spend some of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll also regularly work at your office or hub 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

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 Software Engineer - Google Cloud Platform

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll be working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You’ll also be:

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with hands-on experience of Google Cloud Platform developing, comfortable building and scaling solutions across the wider GCP ecosystem rather than any single component. You'll bring practical knowledge of GCP infrastructure using Terraform, along with GCP networking including VPC design, subnets, firewall rules, and Cloud Load Balancing.

You'll also have a genuine interest in emerging AI technologies, with exposure to LLMs and integrations using Model-Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-2-Agent, ideally including the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform. A creative, problem-solving mindset and experience of working in an Agile team will help you thrive as we grow.

You'll also need:

• Experience with Apigee Hybrid or Apigee X as part of a broader GCP toolkit
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes, particularly Google Kubernetes Engine
• Familiarity with Cloud Armor and Model Armor for platform and AI protection
• Understanding of MCP and A2A concepts and how they integrate with LLM services
• Relevant Google Cloud Platform professional qualifications
• The ability to apply new AI technologies to real engineering challenges

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.

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

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