Mainframe Hardware Infrastructure Engineer
Job description
Closing date for applications: 03/08/2026 Location London, United Kingdom Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time Mostly Remote You’ll spend most of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You’ll come into an office or hub at least twice a month to collaborate with your colleagues. Managerial / Technical Lead This is a general indication and doesn’t always reflect day-to-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details. #R-00282714 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 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 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. Tap each segment for details. Your pay package 100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month. +10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension. up to +10% Benefit funding This is monthly funding paid towards a range of benefits you can choose from. Your leave allowance 30 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 Bishopsgate hub Based only a few minutes’ walk from Liverpool Street Station, the central location of this office makes working there incredibly convenient. Everything you need is close by, so you can run errands, go to the gym, and socialise with friends and colleagues before and after work. Bishopsgate recently underwent a multi-year refurbishment programme to improve spaces and facilities as well as become more sustainable. 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