Webscale Jobs | MongoDB Engineer at Nationwide Building Society

If you are you looking for an exciting opportunity to really make a difference with great job satisfaction in a fast dynamic and thriving team then come and join the Business Integration Platform team here at Nationwide. We are at the centre of the society’s tech strategy and the focal point for our current and future Kubernetes platform.

As a MongoDB Database Administrator you will be working in project teams designing, building and maintaining MongoDB databases and infrastructure to provide strong business solutions. You will be involved at all stages from design, build to the support of both non-production and production environments. We are creating a learning culture at NBS and ongoing development is important and the opportunity to increase skills in technologies is encouraged. As a part of this role you will have the opportunity to join our many communities to share ideas and collaborate with other professional engineers.

At Nationwide we openly put our 15 million members at the centre of every decision we make as a business. Every role, no matter what it’s doing, is member focused.

Your success isn’t based on how long you spend at your desk. You’ll have contracted hours, but we’re always happy to support flexible working wherever we can. That might mean working from home or different Nationwide offices or agreeing a working pattern to help you balance work and life. We will always strive to find a way that works for everyone.

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 within the delivery teams you will work collaboratively with others to build the best solutions for Nationwide using your technical leadership skills and SME knowledge to offer advice/consultancy, build systems and work through problems to provide solid working solutions within the Mongo DB space. Providing guidance and direction to less experienced Engineers to help create fit for purpose designs and/or solutions to meet the team objectives.

You may be required to work on-call from time to time.

About you

You will have a proven track record in providing technical delivery through the design, build and implementation of MongoDB and you will have in depth knowledge & experience of the following:

Configuring and supporting OpsManager for Backups and Deployments.
Understanding of MongoDB architecture, replication and sharding.
Supporting document based JSON data structures, exporting and importing documents.
Assisting development and testing teams with troubleshooting within MongoDB and tuning performance, application workload and index recommendations.
Deploying and configuring MongoDB in Linux, specifically Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Soft skills:

Be comfortable working across multiple projects and immersing yourself in a team
Be ready to share your expertise with our emerging talent
Good communicator with an analytical approach
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.

Knowledge and Experience of the following areas will be beneficial:

Experience of operating system concepts of Linux (RHEL)
Infrastructure as Code - Ansible
Other RDBMS/NoSQL database technologies such as MSSQL Server, Oracle and DSE Cassandra
LDAP integration
Kerberos integration
Experience of/understanding of Red Hat Openshift
Experience of/understanding of Kafka.
Network and infrastructure security concepts
Agile project management methodologies and Scrum agile framework
Regulatory environments such as PCI and GDPR
Network and infrastructure security concepts
Working with 3rd parties / suppliers

We’re also interested in who you are as a person. Why? Because our membership is made up of so many different kinds of people, so we want our employees to be just as diverse. We’d love to hear about:

Your values, and what makes you who you are
How you’d make a difference to our members in this role

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
Access to an annual performance related bonus
Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
25 days holiday, pro rata

Why work at Nationwide

We’re a building society founded by ordinary people, our members, who came together to help each other get the most from their money, buy homes and save for their futures. For over 130 years, we’ve supported each other and our communities, and we’ve done the right thing for wider society too.

If you come to work here at Nationwide, you’ll be part of that. Part of something a bit different. And something really quite special.

What’s more, we have a strong ethic of care for each other and our members. We recognise that our employees feel most appreciated when their thoughts and values are respected and considered. We’re committed to creating a culture that recognises and truly values our individual differences and identities. So, if you’d like to be a part of an inclusive workplace where you can be yourself, where your talents are nurtured, and you feel empowered to contribute, then please apply and help us in building society, 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.