Lead Devops Engineer - Ci/Cd

The CI/CD Platform Team are on a mission to deliver a cutting-edge internal DevOps platform to scale the societies DevOps practices and improve the Developer Experience.

You’ll be the Lead Engineer providing technical leadership for infrastructure change implementation across multiple Cloud and CICD initiatives. You will lead, deliver, and review infrastructure designs whilst managing infrastructure risks and identifying end-of service life issues and solutions. We are looking for both technical depth and the ability to influence others. Stakeholder management will be key. You’ll provide guidance on delivering best practice, innovation, and automation in the industrialisation of complex strategic IT initiatives. We want someone who can build technical excellence within a team through coaching and mentoring of other engineers, and add their expertise to our current, and future platforms.

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, at one of our 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 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

As a core member of the team responsible for the CI/CD platform you will:

• Drive the adoption of DevSecOps principles across the team by iteratively improving the performance and reliability of the services we provide.
• Lead & influence architectural & design decisions for our platform.
• Collaborate with architecture, security, engineering teams and the wider engineering community to set up best in class Cloud and CI/CD platforms and subsequently provide guidance on their consumption.
• Lead the engineering of our internal DevOps platform solutions, from design, through build, and run.
• Build automation throughout the process for improving developer productivity and efficiency.
• Engineering the CI/CD Pipeline templates & provide timely assistance to the Developer community.
• Manage stakeholder relationships with Product Owner, Scrum & the consumers.
  Coach and collaborate with a diverse team to establish and evolve our code security capabilities and help to embed best practices.
• Option to line manage a feature team down the line, to include capability development, coaching and performance management. 
• Bring a high level of motivation and enthusiasm to the team, always looking for ways to expand your own skillset and searching for ways to do things better and quicker.
• Evaluate control in and of the pipeline and assess their alignment with the
  organization’s risk appetite. Control of the pipeline involves a blend of technology management practices that enhance and uphold DevSecOps infrastructures and operations. Control in the pipeline focuses on software development best practices and tooling that enhance security throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) within the enterprise.
• This role may involve an on-call rota.

About you

We are looking for the following skills, experience and attributes:

• You love working on new initiatives and are comfortable establishing the foundations for others to build on, with the opportunity to influence technology choices and future direction.
• You are eager to technically lead and stay hands-on with technology, so they can continue to innovate, learn and create.
• You are passionate about solving complex DevOps problems, building DevOps pipelines, and working with CI/CD technology – Proven experience using Terraform, Kubernetes & Docker but not limited to these technologies as we also use Harness, Artifactory, Jenkins, GitHub, SNYK, SonarQube, Ansible, GitHub Actions & ELK across our Platform.
• Recent experience working with AWS or Azure using infrastructure as code as well as container platforms such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS, AKS. Are confident coding in languages such as Python or shell scripting.
• Previous experience working in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, Java, .net core, Go, Javascript, Typescript Can automate the deployment and monitoring of services in public cloud platforms.
• Demonstrate the capability to persuade engineers and other stakeholders to adopt controls and recognize the significant value they bring. Can Implement changes/improvements to production services, ensuring service uptime.

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

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
• Gympass – 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
• 30 days holiday, pro rata
• Individual healthcare cover (CF D and above)

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.

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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