Cloud Platform Engineer

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.

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 will spend at least two days per week, or if part time you will spend 40% of your working time, at either our Swindon or London office.

What you will be doing:

• Take the charge in building and managing scalable, self-healing, globally distributed cloud platforms.
• 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.
• Share knowledge with peers to contribute to the skills growth of knowledge within Nationwide’s Engineering COE.
• 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.
• Proactively troubleshoot network issues and provide effective solutions.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, engineering teams and the wider Engineering Centre of Excellence to ensure seamless integration of network solutions within our infrastructure.

About you:

• Skilled Cloud Networking Engineers that can demonstrate hands-on or Non-Cloud transferable experience to support our 4c’s (Cloud, Containerisation, Coding, CI/CD).
• 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. While expertise in these tools is not mandatory, familiarity is preferred.
• Skilled automating the deployment and monitoring of services in Public Cloud.
• Implementing changes/improvements to production services, ensuring service uptime.
• Strong experience in network engineering, with hands-on experience in routing, firewalls, DNS and VPNs.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex network issues and implement effective solutions.

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.

The Extras you will get:

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday, pro rata