Environment Engineering Lead

3 days ago


Swindon, United Kingdom Nationwide Building Society Full time
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 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. You will play a critical role in ensuring the stability, performance, and scalability of Nationwide's IT services and infrastructure by working with SRE and Environment Practice lead.

As an Environment Engineer lead, you will be responsible for delivering Nationwide's 'Route to Live' test environments. You and your team will provision and manage test environments that enable the safe, secure, and efficient delivery of IT changes to Nationwide's live services, while ensuring the release engineering approach is supported by automation. 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.

This role is within the Environment engineering practice of the Chief Operating Office, which is responsible for creating and maintaining the environment/infrastructure solutions exploited by our colleagues to deliver technology services to our Members.

This role will be a natural point of escalation and will foster a learning culture, based on continuous improvement. You will work closely with stakeholders across Nationwide's Technology Transformation and Delivery teams working with an Agile mindset and will exhibit the behaviours of an Agile Leader while encouraging the team to embrace and adopt agile values and principles where appropriate.

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 in either Swindon or London. 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 oversee the execution of the Enterprise Environment Strategy and manage the provisioning of Nationwide's Non-Production Environments. You will be a key resource for delivery teams, providing the right environments that accurately represent Production services.

You will provide leadership to environment partner teams embedded in delivery communities, ensuring environments are used efficiently, governing the provision and recovery of on-demand environments, and facilitating the efficient co-existence of releases in shared environments.
About you

You will be an experienced Environment Management professional with a track record of delivering environment services and managing partners. As a minimum requirement you will have a strong understanding
  • Strong 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.
  • Demonstrable technical understanding of IT Environment Landscapes and the tools used to manage them
  • Knowledge on SRE concepts, understanding of observability tools such as Dynatrace, App Dynamics, and CICD tooling such as Ansible, Github, Harness is recommended
  • Knowledge on Test data management .

You'll also:
  • Be comfortable working across multiple projects and immersing yourself in a team.
  • Be ready to share your expertise with our emerging talent
  • Build good working relationships with both technical and business stakeholders, gaining their respect and trust based on your knowledge and professionalism.
  • Have the ability and desire to quickly learn new technologies

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
  • 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. 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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