Infrastructure Engineer

Closing date for applications: 24/07/2026

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 Database Platforms

You’ll collaborate in building the best possible database platforms for public and private cloud environments and engineer infrastructure technology to comply with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in

You’ll also use automation to provide testing and a route to live for the product, identifying ways to use new and existing technology tools to enhance performance, removing inefficiencies

This is a chance to work with colleagues across the bank to share engineering best practices, allowing you to provide thought leadership while developing solutions

We're offering this role at vice president level

What you'll do

As an Infrastructure Engineer for Database platforms, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of database related technologies required to meet the needs of our customers, strategic targets and architecture outcomes, along with developing products using modern engineering practices and tools.

We’ll look to you to collaborate with Product Owners to develop product roadmaps and manage the lifecycle of the team's products and support engineered products to respond to customer feedback, new feature requests, resolve production issues and help customers consume our products.

Additionally, you’ll:

Take a lead role within a team to design and engineer intuitive, self-service database products

Develop technical skills through continuous learning and development

Contribute to the delivery of infrastructure as code solutions

Build an awareness of design thinking tools and techniques with users in order to improve your product

Provide operational support for pattern or product related issues

Work with key vendors in the delivery of the infrastructure services and technology for the product

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, with an understanding of the software development lifecycle. You’ll also have experience in utilizing 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.

Furthermore, you’ll need:

Experience of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling

Experience in software testing practices and tools and in using observability tools and techniques with the ability to use data, information and user sentiment to continuously improve solutions

Private and Public cloud technology knowledge covering AWS , linux and modern database technologies

Experience of working with technology deployed in a private cloud

Strong collaborative communication skills for articulating technical concepts clearly to stakeholders

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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