Specialist, Technology Engineer (Azure Infrastructure Engineer)

Nationwide Mutual Insurance•Columbus, OH

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you! The Technology Engineer delivers standard and custom supportable technology products based on Nationwide’s architectural standards, technology roadmaps, industry trends and business requirements. You’ll be focused on collaboration, data, systems, storage, middleware, network, security and contact center technology products. You’re also accountable for the operational aspects and management for the above products in accordance with the business requirements and defined service level agreements (SLAs). This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week on Mondays & Wednesdays. We are seeking an Azure Infrastructure Engineer to join a cloud platform engineering team responsible for building, automating, securing, and supporting Azure infrastructure used by enterprise application teams. This role includes Azure subscription and resource group buildout, Azure DevOps and deployment automation, storage and file-share engineering, security remediation, networking and connectivity support, and operational/on-call ownership. The ideal candidate is a hands-on infrastructure engineer who can partner with application teams, architecture, security, and operations teams to deliver reliable Azure platform capabilities while improving automation, guardrails, and supportability across the environment.

Requirements

Experience engineering and supporting Microsoft Azure infrastructure in an enterprise environment, including resource groups, virtual machines, storage services, networking, access controls, and shared platform components.
Experience with Azure DevOps, YAML-based deployment patterns, service connections, and automation using PowerShell or similar scripting languages.
Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, connectivity, logging, monitoring, and deployment workflows.
Experience implementing or supporting secure access patterns such as RBAC, Key Vault-based secret handling, federated credentials, private endpoints, and policy guardrails.
Ability to work directly with application teams and cross-functional partners to understand requirements, guide implementation decisions, and deliver practical infrastructure solutions.
Ability to manage work in a structured way across change control, implementation tasks, and operational follow-through in a production environment.
Four years of experience with moderately complex integrated solutions and an ability to develop and modify existing solutions for specialized needs.
Experience with automation of solution configurations deployment and with system management processes and tools.
Experience with concepts and solutions: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and Package Solutions.
Strong communication skills, knowledge of planning, management and execution of Accelerated Solutions Deliver framework, Information Security acumen.
Influencing, negotiating and priority setting is needed.

Nice To Haves

Insurance/financial services industry knowledge is a plus.
Technology certifications or designation are encouraged (i.e.: AWS, Azure, scripting and development languages, delivery methods, security).

Responsibilities

Build, configure, and support Azure subscriptions, resource groups, shared infrastructure, and application environments across development, test, and production use cases.
Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot Azure DevOps pipelines, deployment automation, and PowerShell-based tooling used to provision and update Azure infrastructure at scale.
Engineer and support core Azure platform components such as virtual machines, storage accounts, Azure Files and Blob Storage, App Services, application gateways, Key Vault integrations, load balancers, and related platform services.
Partner with application teams during working sessions to deploy infrastructure, enable application hosting patterns, resolve platform blockers, and improve deployment consistency.
Support networking and connectivity needs for Azure-hosted workloads, including firewall requests, DNS coordination, private endpoint connectivity, and cross-environment access patterns.
Improve Azure security posture through policy guardrails, App Service and storage remediation, RBAC-based access patterns, key and credential lifecycle management, and collaboration with security and compliance stakeholders.
Troubleshoot production issues related to logging, monitoring, authentication, storage access, deployment pipelines, and Azure service configuration, and drive issues through to resolution.
Participate in on-call rotations and operational support for Azure platform services, including incident response, change implementation, and platform reliability work.
Contribute to modernization, migration, and platform-improvement efforts by breaking down work, refining implementation approaches, and helping create scalable solutions for repeated engineering needs.
Creates and implements standard builds/templates for all technology platforms.
Drives requirements to meet current and future needs, tracks and reports capacity postures.
Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
Analyzes reports and delivery recommendations to remediate capacity issues.
Implements capacity enhancements.
Designs standard and custom technology solutions for business partner projects, including pre-production testing, performance tuning, handoffs and certification.
Delivers technology/product optimization, migrations and management, including technology/product design, planning, power and environmental management.
Collaborates with others to develop meaningful metrics that drive fact-based decisions on a given product/environment/solution.
Conducts proactive system maintenance, disaster recovery planning, data backup and recovery as well as inventory, configuration and utility product management.
Executes production engineering processes, incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, change management, release management and knowledge management.
Provides production support for all technology platforms.
Provides oversight for technical labs and development environments.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.