Cloud Platform Engineer - Home Working & Annual Bonus

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. 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 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• Take charge in building and managing scalable, self-healing, globally distributed cloud platforms.
• Drive efficiency, automation, and cost reduction by automating manual and repetitive tasks.
• 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.
• 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.

Required Skills:

• 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.
• Strong experience in network engineering, with hands-on experience in routing, firewalls, DNS and VPNs.
• Proficiency in analysing network traffic and developing security policies.
• 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.

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.

A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16% ~ Life assurance worth 8x your salary ~ A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme ~ Access to an annual performance related bonus ~ Access to training to help you develop and progress your career ~ 25 days holiday, pro rata.