Engineer (DevOps Engineer)

Nationwide; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Nationwide is seeking a DevOps Engineer with expertise in CI/CD and Ansible to enhance its Environment Engineering practice. This role involves automating the software development lifecycle and ensuring robust operational capabilities. Join a forward-thinking team that offers a hybrid working model and values continuous improvement, customer-centric behaviors, and professional growth.

Benefits

Personal pension scheme

Paid volunteering days

Life assurance

Salary sacrifice benefits

Health and wellness access

Annual performance-related bonus

Training and development opportunities

25 days holiday

Qualifications

• Experienced DevOps or CI/CD Engineer.
• Track record of delivering environment services/Automation through Pipeline.
• Strong project management and people leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficient in using Ansible for automation and configuration management.
• Create and manage alert profiles and performance dashboards using Dynatrace.

Skills

CI/CD Automation

Ansible Expertise

Configuration Management

Security Integration

Project Management

Job description

Working within the Environment Engineering Practice teams, you will collaborate with others to build the best solutions for Nationwide's Environment estate. Using your technical, Project management leadership skills and SME knowledge, you will offer advice/consultancy, build systems, and work on automation and release engineering to solve problems and provide solid capabilities.

A DevOps Engineer with CI/CD and Ansible expertise focuses on automating and streamlining the software development lifecycle particularly using Ansible for automation and CI/CD for continuous integration and deployment. You will play a significant role in protecting Nationwide's brand and reputation, by providing representative environments that maintain the availability and performance of live services for our members.

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 or London 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 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

You will be a DevOps Engineer with CI/CD and Ansible expertise, focussing on automating and streamlining the software development lifecycle, particularly using Ansible for automation and CI/CD for continuous integration and deployment.
About you

You will be an experienced DevOps or CI/CD Engineer, with a track record of delivering environment services/Automation through Pipeline and managing partners.

As a minimum requirement you will have:

• CI/CD Automation: Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, Harness or GitHub Actions, ensuring smooth and frequent software releases.
• Ansible Expertise: Proficient in using Ansible for infrastructure as code, configuration management, and automating tasks throughout the software lifecycle.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement improvements to the CI/CD process to enhance efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Configuration Management: Managing server configurations and deployments through automation, often using Ansible.
• Security Integration: Integrating security best practices into the development and deployment process.
• Alerting and Monitoring: Create and manage alert profiles, anomaly detection, and performance dashboards using Dynatrace.
• Strong Project management, people leadership, line management and organisational skills.
• Experience in engaging and influencing a range of stakeholders, to communicate technical concepts and use of storytelling to explain the business value of effective and secure environment management.

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.

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