DevOps Engineer

Nationwide Building Society; Bournemouth; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a passionate DevOps Engineer to enhance their cloud infrastructure and digital services. In this role, you'll collaborate with a dedicated team to develop resilient solutions that support millions of users across the UK. Your expertise in Azure, CI/CD, and containerization will be crucial as you optimize systems for performance and security. With a focus on innovation and customer satisfaction, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact while enjoying a supportive hybrid working environment. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to fairer finances and community values.

Benefits

Personal pension plan

Paid volunteering days

Life assurance

Salary sacrifice benefits

Health and wellness options

Performance-related bonus

Training and development opportunities

25 days holiday

Qualifications

• Experience managing and deploying cloud infrastructure on Azure.
• Experience deploying and managing CI/CD solutions.

Responsibilities

• Manage and upgrade infrastructure for content management capability.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines to automate delivery processes.

Skills

Azure cloud infrastructure

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Kubernetes/AKS

Infrastructure as Code

Shell scripting

Application development

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer with passion, creativity and determination who’ll help us deliver efficient, robust, resilient and secure solutions that meet the need of the business and our customers.

We develop public facing services including www.nationwide.co.uk to provide service and support to our visitors and members. Behind our websites and applications sits our CMS platform providing simple and efficient content authoring capability to our business. You’ll work closely with Application Engineers developing our resilient and secure cloud infrastructure, containerisation, managed through orchestration, automation and CI/CD (Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery) pipelines.

You’ll be working predominantly with Azure cloud resources, Terraform, Kubernetes/AKS, and Azure DevOps. We continue to evolve and have some multi-cloud and portability opportunities too.

This role is in the Cloud, Digital & Integration function. We’re responsible for the Society’s Core Digital Channels (including mobile app and internet banking), the middleware estate and cloud platforms. Embracing new technologies, our team’s focus is enriching and improving our Customer’s Digital experience with new capabilities and improved performance and resilience.

The role is in the CMS Platform Team. You’ll be at the heart of helping our members. We develop and support a content management application and infrastructure, consumed by Nationwide’s public facing digital services, ensuring our services and infrastructure are secure, resilient, reliable and performant. You’ll help create the systems used by millions of people right across the UK.

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, London, Bournemouth or Northampton 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 not already based in our Swindon or London office, there is the expectation to attend these offices roughly once a quarter for planning sessions and collaboration.

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.

What you’ll be doing

Working in a small scrum team you’ll be managing and upgrading the infrastructure and tools we use to develop and deliver our content management capability to support digital service and websites like nationwide.co.uk.

You’ll be developing and delivering CI/CD pipelines to automate tasks to optimise the efficiency and reliability of our delivery processes.

You will support the Application Developers to diagnose and resolve issues that block or slow down the delivery of change to our applications.

You’ll look for opportunities to simplify cloud infrastructure, optimise costs and improve security and performance.

About you

For the role of DevOps Engineer, we expect you to have the following skills and experience:

• Solid background and experience of managing and deploying cloud infrastructure on Azure and experience of other cloud platforms
• Experience deploying and managing build agents and CI/CD solutions
• Managing Infrastructure as Code and using automation pipelines
• Kubernetes or another container platform
• A background in application development, programming, and shell scripting languages
• Experience debugging complex systems to identify solutions.

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.

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• 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

Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society

We forge our own path at Nationwide.

As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.

At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.

We are Purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly Customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

What to do next

If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.

#LI-post