DevOps Engineer

at  Nationwide

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our Cloud, Digital & Integration team within our growing Engineering Team. This is an opportunity to influence its evolution and grow your career.
We’re following the lead of some of the world’s biggest tech companies in solving the huge complexities of massive-scale, user-driven systems. So we’re embarking on a new chapter in our architectural thinking focused around event streams and event-driven architectures. It involves utilising technologies such as Apache Kafka, NoSQL Databases and Microservices to build elastically scaling systems to provide an outstanding experience to our members.
Shape and be part of our new vision, while having a healthy work-life balance.
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, Nationwide House or our London, Threadneedle Street office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. 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

• You’ll have experience working in high-performing teams, delivering innovative technical solutions, applications and services.
• Experience of any containerisation technology, such as Docker, Kubernetes or Openshift.
• Has experience of creating and maintaining automated build and deployment pipelines using Jenkins or Github Actions.
• Has experience of configuring and using DevOps tooling such as Artefact Management Systems, Test Automation Tooling, Scanning & Monitoring
• Has developed, tested and deployed software into a public cloud environment; preferably AWS, but Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud experience is also relevant.
• Has experience of Infrastructure-As-Code.
• Has experience of working within Agile teams.
• Previous experience working in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Java, Go, Javascript.
• Is able to learn new technologies and tools quickly, has the drive and the confidence to challenge the status quo, and demonstrates a pragmatic and collaborative attitude.

Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

• Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
• Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
• Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

As a core member of the team, you will be asked to:

• Discuss architectural & design decisions for our platform
• Build automation throughout the process for improving developer productivity and efficiency.
• Work within the team to progress patterns and ways of working
• Engineering the CI/CD Pipeline templates & provide timely assistance to the Developer community.
• Manage stakeholder relationships with Product Owner, Scrum & the consumers.
• Assist Technical Lead in building the future CI/CD roadmap
• Bring a high level of motivation and enthusiasm to the team, always looking for ways to expand your own skillset and searching for ways to do things better and quicker

As a core member of the team, you will be asked to:

• Discuss architectural & design decisions for our platform
• Build automation throughout the process for improving developer productivity and efficiency.
• Work within the team to progress patterns and ways of working
• Engineering the CI/CD Pipeline templates & provide timely assistance to the Developer community.
• Manage stakeholder relationships with Product Owner, Scrum & the consumers.
• Assist Technical Lead in building the future CI/CD roadmap
• Bring a high level of motivation and enthusiasm to the team, always looking for ways to expand your own skillset and searching for ways to do things better and quicker.