Senior Cloud Operations Site Reliability Engineer

NATIONWIDE BUILDING SOCIETY ,
London, Greater London
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Field1 We're no strangers to being at the forefront of technological breakthroughs - first in the UK to launch internet banking, joint first with Apple pay, Cisco leading-edge technology in our branches. Building on that success, we're now on a hugely exciting and ambitious transformation journey to become a simpler, more agile and innovative organisation, whilst remaining relentlessly focused on delivering legendary products and services to our members... Our adoption of cloud is fundamental to the success of our material investment in technology for now and the future. The creation of first-class cloud products and capabilities that can be harnessed and leveraged are critical to achieving our strategy, delighting our members and the foundation of our digital capability. Our level of ambition is set high, that's why we need an experienced cloud talent to drive forward our cloud strategy delivery. And that's where you come in... Want to get involved in Cloud based technical challenges besides just reading blog articles? Are you someone who lives and breathes hyperscale public Cloud providers? Are you someone who appreciates similarities and differences between DevOps and SRE? Part of Nationwide's exciting and growing team of Cloud Operations Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) you'll be a recognised Cloud Operations SRE expert. Responsible for the delivery of Cloud Operations technical solutions for assigned projects/programmes/squads and for providing consultancy and support services as required. As part of the IT Operations and Service Delivery community and working within our Cloud Centre of Excellence, we are looking for talented people with the ability to act like a Developer and think like a Systems Operator. What you'll be doing As a core member of the team responsible for the reliability, availability and performance of our cloud platforms and services that underpin Nationwide. You will: * Lead architectural & design with regards to the operational reliability of NBS cloud platforms * Take the charge in building and managing scalable, self-healing, globally-distributed cloud platforms * Collaborate with architecture, security, engineering teams and the wider Cloud Centre of Excellence to set up best in class cloud platforms and subsequently provide guidance on their consumption * Work with development and feature squads to ensure the reliability of future projects and programmes * Proactively seek opportunities to drive efficiency, automation and cost reduction by automating manual and repetitive tasks * Develop features and codified artefacts for platform improvements leveraging automation and infrastructure as code About you As a minimum requirement you'll have : * Deep expertise in Public Cloud * Hands on experience automating the deployment and monitoring of services in Public Cloud * Experience in design and implementing cloud platforms for elasticity and scalability * Propose and develop architectural decisions that minimise and optimise infrastructure cost * Hands on experience in infrastructure as code and post deployment configuration management using tools such as Terraform, ARM, DSC, Puppet, Chef, Ansible etc. * Understanding of continuous deployment using CI/CD tools like Jenkins, SCM (Git, SVN) * Experience in making changes to production & live systems ensuing service uptime adhering to SDLC best practices * Experienced with running Docker, Kubernetes and Cloud native development frameworks (Serverless & PaaS) in Production * Solid understanding of core network protocols and services (TCP/IP, DNS) * In depth expertise in system administration including configuration and troubleshooting * Deep understanding of IAM roles and policies * Ability to analyse network behaviour, performance and application issues using standard tools * Experienced with database and replication methodologies * Experience with distributed systems design, maintenance, disaster recovery, updates required * Understanding of Security Groups and Network Access Control Lists * Public Cloud certifications The extras you'll get Our people's success isn't based on how long they spend at their desk. While you'll have contracted hours, we want to offer a flexible environment where possible. That might be working from home, logging on from other offices across the UK, or working part time or compressed hours. We've let you know about the flexibility available for this role at the start of the advert. This means you can quickly decide if it suits how you'd like to work. Remove above paragraphs if flexible working isn't possible, for example operational areas. 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 * Access to an annual performance related bonus * Ac

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