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NatWest Group

Site Reliability Engineer, Vice President

ChennaiPosted today

Skills

PythonGoTerraformCI/CDAWSKafkaKubernetesCollaborationCommunicationFintech

Job description

Join us as a Site Reliability Engineer

In this key role, you’ll improve, drive, and embed non-functional and operational characteristics such as availability, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, security, incident response, and capacity planning of our products and services

You’ll enjoy significant stakeholder interaction, working in collaboration with engineers to ensure a principled approach to deliver 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

We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

As our Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll work closely with our feature team and other colleagues to meet defined service level objectives and continually improve systems and environments. You’ll define error budgets that support finding the right balance between risk and reliability.

You’ll also provide structure and help to our release process, suggesting and making improvements where possible. You’ll scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, evolving them by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity. We’ll also look to you to coach and provide guidance to colleagues and the wider team, leading where required.

In addition to this, you’ll:

Proactively contribute new ideas and innovations to meet short term and longer-term goals

Continually balance and manage any potential risks

Be accountable for the day-to-day health of both production and non-production environments and respond to any incidents as required

Provide technical expertise and input to establish the risk tolerance of products and services

Communicate incident status updates clearly and frequently to other teams, customers and stakeholders

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for someone with strong knowledge of reliability systems thinking and experience of software engineering. You’ll need experience of using a data driven and scientific approach to fact finding. We’ll also look for financial services knowledge, and the ability to identify wider business impact, risk and opportunity, and make connections across key outputs and processes

We’re also looking for:

Programming / Scripting experience with Python, Go or Bash

Experience in Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred)

Strong knowledge of deploy and release services, automation, and troubleshooting. Experience with CI/CD and blue/green deployments for decisioning engines

Deep AWS expertise in high-scale systems and event-driven architectures

Strong knowledge of Kafka, API Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, ECS/EKS (Kubernetes), CloudWatch / Prometheus / Datadog, DynamoDB, Aurora

Experience using mathematical and statistical models to assess trends

Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with a wide range of stakeholders

Hours

45

Job Posting Closing Date:

14/10/2026

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