Cloud Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to join our Treasury Technology Team, here at Nationwide.

You'll be responsible for the build, management, maintenance and monitoring of our AWS cloud environments. Collaborating with the development and engineering teams to ensure we are adhering to cloud best practices and governance. Looking at opportunities for optimisation and continuous improvement, as well as, helping shape our cloud strategy.

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 or Bournemouth offices. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.

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 as part of our multi-disciplined IT Engineering team in Treasury Technology, you will be responsible for:

• Supporting and advising on cloud strategy
• Deploying and debugging Infrastructure as code
• Looking after cloud governance and best practices
• Implementing measures for cloud security
• Managing and optimising the use of cloud resources
• Collaborating with other teams and third-party vendors
• Line management and mentoring of other cloud engineers
• Day to day prioritisation and allocation of cloud tasks

About you

If you have some of the following skills, we are keen to hear from you:

• Knowledge of the following AWS technologies (EC2, RDS, Networking, Lambda, S3, Route 53, File transfer for VPC)
• Using Terraform, Jenkins or Ansible to automate the provisioning/configuration of environments
• Managing source code using GitHub
• Scripting using Python/BASH
• Experience of coaching and mentoring, with an interest in progressing management

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.

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

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.

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.