Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer

NatWest Group is hiring a Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer in Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Level rates it ; you can apply on NatWest Group.

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Join us as a Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer

You’ll collaborate in building the best possible hardware solutions for the Mainframe environment and engineer infrastructure technology to comply with security, resilience, sustainability, and operational requirements with observability and guardrails built in
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 Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll contribute to and manage the selection, creation and maintenance of 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.

You’ll also:

Take a lead role within a team to design and engineer intuitive, self-service infrastructure 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 Mainframe Infrastructure support, Mainframe hardware configuration and automation scripting such as Python or Shell. 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

In addition, you’ll have:

Experience of designing and configuring Mainframe Hardware solutions including DASD, SAN/FICON connectivity and network infrastructure
Experience of planning and delivering hardware migrations between different generations of IBM z Mainframes
Strong understanding of GDPS architectures and operations, including processor management, DASD replication and Disaster Recovery automation
Technical leadership experience and subject matter expertise
Experience of the development of CI or CD pipelines using modern tooling
Experience in 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
Experience of working with technology deployed to an on premise datacentre

Hours

Job Posting Closing Date:

16/11/2026

Ways of Working:Remote First

How we rate this

Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer at NatWest Group rates 30 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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