Cloud OpenShift Engineer

Closing date for applications: 15/07/2026

Location Chennai, India

Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time

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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 India and as such all normal working days must be carried out in India.

Join us as an Infrastructure Engineer for Cloud Platforms

Join us and collaborate in building the best possible database platforms for public and private cloud environments

Improve our products as you apply automation to provide testing and a route to live

This is your chance to share thought leadership and best practice across the bank, while you’re developing solutions

What you'll do

As an Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll take the lead on designing intuitive, self-service database products that make all the difference to our customers, as well as our strategic targets. This is a fantastic opportunity to advance your career in a highly innovative and supportive environment.

You’ll collaborate with product owners to create roadmaps and manage the lifecycle, taking customer feedback, new feature requests and production issues into consideration. As you continue to manage the selection, creation and maintenance of database-related technologies, you’ll ensure that our solutions comply with the bank’s requirements and responsibilities.

You’ll also:

Identify new ways to solve problems and enhance performance using tech tools

Provide operational support for pattern or product-related issues, and contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions

Build awareness of design-thinking tools and techniques across the bank to improve products

Work with key stakeholders to ensure that we continue to deliver the best possible service

The skills you'll need

To thrive in this role, you’ll have experience in software development or automation scripting, such as Python or Shell. You’ll be knowledgeable about the software development lifecycle, with experience of utilising modern infrastructure as code via tooling.

We’ll expect you to bring a good understanding of Agile working practices and toolsets, with the ability to create the vision for the Release Train, feature team, platform and domain.

In addition, you’ll have:

Experience in learning the design, engineering, automation, and lifecycle management of enterprise Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift platforms to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable solutions for business-critical workloads

Experience in building, deploying, and supporting containerized applications using cloud-native and DevOps practices, with hands-on expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Python, GitLab, and CI/CD pipeline automation

Provide expertise in OpenShift ecosystem technologies including ACM, ACS, ODF, networking, service mesh, ingress, routes, load balancing, and application exposure patterns

Collaborate within Agile, cross-functional teams to deliver strategic platform outcomes, champion DevOps culture, and support customers in adopting modern cloud-native technologies

Strong collaborative and communication skills, and the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly

Welcome to our Chennai hub

Nestled in the heart of One India Bulls Park, our hub in Kosmo One, Tower A, is one of Ambattur’s first skyscraper spanning 420,000 sq. ft.

Key facts:

Surrounded by 10 acres

Space for 3,600 colleagues

Opened in 2009

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

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