Specialist, Software Engineer - Infrastructure/Platform Engineer - ETL Pipelines

Nationwide Mutual Insurance•Columbus, OH

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Nationwide's Technology team is seeking a strong infrastructure/platform engineer to join the Compute Dragons team, which manages and supports critical actuarial platforms and services. This role will focus on production stability, platform operations, automation, security, and modernization across a compute estate that includes GGY AXIS, GlaaS, Beowulf HPC, AWS cloud resources, workflow orchestration, ETL pipelines, and external data feed integrations. The ideal candidate is comfortable working across Windows-based compute platforms, cloud infrastructure, storage, access controls, operational support, and vendor-integrated actuarial systems.

Requirements

Strong experience supporting production infrastructure and platform services in enterprise environments.
Hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, IAM, and KMS.
Experience with Windows Server administration, Active Directory, remote access controls, and operational support for server-based platforms.
Experience with infrastructure security, vulnerability remediation, patching, and operational monitoring.
Ability to troubleshoot complex cross-platform issues involving compute, storage, networking, access, and batch processing.
Strong documentation, communication, and coordination skills for working with technical and business stakeholders.
Four or more years of analysis and technology experience.
Proficiency in one or more programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript.
Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle.
Proven ability to tackle complex business and development problems.
Ability to thrive in a team environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with HPC or distributed compute environments such as Beowulf-style clusters.
Experience supporting actuarial or financial modeling platforms such as GGY AXIS, eLink, or similar vendor products.
Experience with workflow scheduling, ETL, file transfer, and hybrid cloud storage integrations.
Experience working in regulated environments with audit, control, and resiliency expectations.
Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Responsibilities

Support and enhance actuarial compute platforms including GGY AXIS and GlaaS environments, Beowulf HPC operations, AWS S3 and EC2 resources, UAC workflow orchestration, SSIS and ETL pipelines, and external data integrations.
Maintain and optimize AWS-hosted actuarial compute infrastructure, including GGY eLink, queue managers, compute nodes, and supporting database services.
Support hybrid storage patterns using AWS Storage Gateway and S3-backed file shares.
Administer and improve IAM roles, access controls, KMS-backed encryption, and shared AWS platform capabilities.
Participate in production support, incident response, operational monitoring, patching, and platform reliability activities.
Partner with engineering, actuarial, and vendor teams to manage upgrades, infrastructure changes, platform risk remediation, and modernization efforts.
Improve disaster recovery, backup, resiliency, and capacity planning for business-critical actuarial systems.
Own day-to-day support for actuarial compute and storage platforms.
Manage virtual and Windows on-prem servers that support actuarial compute platforms and related services.
Monitor availability, performance, capacity, and operational health of compute nodes, supporting servers, and storage integrations.
Troubleshoot production issues across infrastructure, connectivity, security, and application support boundaries.
Build, maintain, and improve AWS infrastructure supporting actuarial workloads.
Manage EC2, S3, IAM, KMS, networking, and storage-related configurations.
Support infrastructure changes with appropriate testing, rollback planning, and operational validation.
Support access control reviews, least-privilege access, MFA-enabled remote access, and secure handling of platform credentials and encryption keys.
Partner on vulnerability remediation, patching, audit support, and control evidence.
Support backup, restoration, disaster recovery, and recovery testing for key compute platforms and storage assets.
Help reduce operational risk tied to aging infrastructure, unsupported software, or manual operational processes.
Identify automation opportunities in provisioning, monitoring, deployment, patching, access management, and reporting.
Contribute to platform modernization initiatives spanning cloud adoption, storage architecture, code pipeline improvements, and operational tooling.
Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards in an agile environment.
Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
Uses DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques.
Drives continuous improvement and learning through ongoing training, practice and innovation.
Manages medium to large project priorities, deadlines and deliverables proactively.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

medical/dental/vision
life insurance
short and long term disability coverage
18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date
nine paid holidays
8 hours of Lifetime paid time off
8 hours of Unity Day paid time off
401(k) with company match
company-paid pension plan
business casual attire