MongoDB DBA (City of London)

If you are looking for an exciting opportunity to really make a difference with great job satisfaction in a fast dynamic and thriving team then come and join our Integration Platform team here at Nationwide. We are at the centre of the society’s tech strategy and the focal point for our current and future Kubernetes platform.

As a MongoDB Database Administrator you will be working in project teams designing, building and maintaining MongoDB databases and infrastructure to provide strong business solutions. You will be involved at all stages from design, build to the support of both non-production and production environments. We are creating a learning culture at NBS and ongoing development is important and the opportunity to increase skills in technologies is encouraged. As a part of this role you will have the opportunity to join our many communities to share ideas and collaborate with other professional engineers.

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, based at either our London, Swindon, Northampton or Bournemouth offices. 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.

If you are based outside of our Swindon and London offices, there is the requirement to attend Swindon or London once a month for workshops, collaboration and ad/hoc meetings.

What you’ll be doing:

• Working within the delivery teams you will work collaboratively with others to build the best solutions for Nationwide using your technical leadership skills and SME knowledge to offer advice/consultancy, build systems and work through problems to provide solid working solutions within the MongoDB space.
• Providing guidance and direction to less experienced Engineers to help create fit for purpose designs and/or solutions to meet the team objectives.
• You may be required to work on-call from time to time.

About you:

You will have a proven track record in providing technical delivery through the design, build and implementation of MongoDB and ideally you will have in depth knowledge & experience of the following:

• Operating system concepts of Linux
• Configuring and supporting MongoDB OpsManager for Backups and Deployments
• Understanding of MongoDB architecture, replication and sharding
• Supporting document based JSON data structures, exporting and importing documents
• Assisting development and testing teams with troubleshooting within MongoDB and tuning performance, application workload and index recommendations
• Be comfortable working across multiple projects and immersing yourself in a team
• Be ready to share your expertise with our emerging talent
• Experience building relationships with both technical and business stakeholders, gaining their respect and trust based on your knowledge and professionalism
• Have the ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies

Knowledge and Experience of at least three of the below areas:

• Infrastructure as Code – (Ansible or similar)
• LDAP integration
• Kerberos integration
• Experience of/understanding of Red Hat Openshift
• Experience of/understanding of Kafka
• Network and infrastructure security concepts
• Agile project management methodologies and scrum agile framework
• Regulatory environments such as PCI and GDPR
• Working with 3rd parties / suppliers

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’ll 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

What makes us different:

Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.

As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.