As part of Nationwide’s exciting and growing team of Cloud Platform Engineers, you’ll have a SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) mindset, with the ability to act like a Developer and think like a Systems Operator. We invest in our people to ensure we create multi-functional engineers and retain the skills within the organisation. Our engineers are responsible for the delivery of Cloud technical solutions for assigned missions, alongside providing consultancy and support services as required. As part of the Cloud Engineering team, we are looking for talented people to help us achieve our goals.
We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.
At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.
For this job you’ll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you’ll spend 40% of your working time, based at either our Swindon or London office. Whilst these locations are where we are primarily looking to fill the role, if you’re an internal applicant based in a different location we would welcome your application and if successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this could work for this specific role. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.
If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.

ABOUT YOU

We are seeking an E2 Engineer (Cloud Platform Engineer) with a foundation in networking and a passion for problem-solving.
You will be a skilled Cloud Networking Engineer that can demonstrate hands-on or Non-Cloud transferable experience to support our 4c’s (Cloud, Containerisation, Coding, CI/CD).

This includes:

• Experienced designing and implementing Cloud platforms (AWS) for elasticity and scalability.
• Infrastructure as code and post deployment configuration management knowledge, using tools such as Terraform, Ansible or similar.
• Skilled automating the deployment and monitoring of services in Public Cloud.
• Implementing changes/improvements to production services, ensuring service uptime.
• Proficiency in analysing network traffic and developing security policies.
• Deep understanding of routing principles, including on-premise to cloud routing and vice versa. Expertise in ensuring efficient data flow and resolving routing issues.
• Familiarity with cloud networking, particularly AWS (VPC’s/Security Groups/NACLs/AWS Network Firewall), and hybrid environments is preferred.

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind
• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand
• Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development
• Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes.

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

Take the charge in building and managing scalable, self-healing, globally distributed cloud platforms.

• Lead and influence architectural design decisions of network solutions, features and fixes, ensuring robust connectivity between on-premise and within cloud environments.
• Oversee DNS configurations and VPN connectivity, ensuring secure and reliable network access.
• Configure and manage Egress and East/West firewalls, familiarity in Palo Alto and Cisco technologies beneficial.
• Configure AWS Transit gateways attachments and routing between multiple AWS Accounts using IaC i.e. terraform.
• Drive efficiency, automation, and cost reduction by automating manual and repetitive tasks.
• Develop features and codified artefacts for platform improvements leveraging automation and infrastructure as code.
• Provide technical expertise throughout all stages of the product lifecycle.
• Create and adhere to standards and provide governance to contribute to process improvement.
• Identify and escalate dependencies, risks and exceptions that will affect implementation of technical artefacts.
• Proactively troubleshoot network issues and provide effective solutions. Must be able to diagnose problems across the network stack and collaborate on resolution.
• Collaborate with architecture, security and engineering teams to ensure seamless integration of network solutions within our infrastructure.

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind
• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand
• Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development
• Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes