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

Position Overview

Nationwide’s Technology team supports a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70billion in annual sales. Compute Dragons is Nationwide’s actuarial compute infrastructure support team, managing critical platforms such as GGYAXIS, GlaaS, Beowulf HPC, AWS resources, workflow orchestration, ETL pipelines, and external data feeds. We are looking for an infrastructure/platform engineer to own production stability, operations, automation, security, and modernization of this compute estate.

• 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 as needed.

• 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.

• 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.

• Experience with HPC or distributed compute environments such as Beowulf‑style clusters.
• Experience supporting actuarial or financial modeling platforms such as GGYAXIS, 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.

Compute platforms remain stable and available for actuarial model execution and downstream processing. Infrastructure risks are identified early and remediated in a controlled way. Backup, recovery, and DR readiness improve for business‑critical actuarial systems. Platform operations become more automated, secure, and scalable over time, positioning the team to support growth in cloud‑based actuarial compute and shared AWS services.

This role will be based in Columbus, Ohio on a hybrid basis, with collaboration on Mondays and Tuesdays. Internal candidates working remotely may be considered if they bring critical industry skills.

This role does not qualify for employer‑sponsored work authorization, and Nationwide does not participate in the STEM OPT Extension program.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law.