Specialist, Technology Engineer (AWS)

If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care. This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week on Mondays & Wednesdays.

Summary We are seeking an AWS Infrastructure Engineer to join a cloud platform engineering team responsible for building, automating, securing, and supporting AWS infrastructure used by enterprise application teams. This role is grounded in the standard work performed by an AWS cloud platform engineering team, including AWS workload-account and sandbox provisioning, infrastructure-as-code and deployment automation, platform API and serverless engineering, observability, security remediation, AI infrastructure enablement, and operational/on-call ownership. The ideal candidate is a hands-on infrastructure engineer who can partner with application teams, architecture, security, FinOps, and operations teams to deliver reliable AWS platform capabilities while improving automation, guardrails, and supportability across the environment.

Build, configure, and support AWS workload accounts, classic accounts, sandbox environments, shared infrastructure, and application platform services across development, test, and production use cases. Develop, maintain, and troubleshoot AWS infrastructure-as-code and deployment automation using AWS CDK, GitHub Actions, Harness, Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar engineering tools. Engineer and support core AWS platform components such as Lambda, Step Functions, S3, KMS and customer-managed keys, EventBridge, API Gateway, CloudWatch, WAF, IAM, and related platform services. Improve AWS security posture through workload-account guardrails, IAM and least-privilege access patterns, OIDC and workload identity, tagging, policy controls, vulnerability remediation, and collaboration with security and compliance stakeholders. Support observability and operational visibility for AWS workloads through logging, telemetry, dashboards, alerting, and integrations with enterprise platforms such as Splunk, Cribl, New Relic, or comparable services. Contribute to AWS AI infrastructure initiatives. Troubleshoot production issues related to account provisioning, identity, security controls, logging, monitoring, deployment pipelines, AWS service configuration, and resource lifecycle, and drive issues through to resolution. Participate in AWS on-call and incident rotations, including incident response, change implementation, validation, operational communications, and platform reliability improvements. Contribute to modernization, migration, and platform-improvement efforts by breaking down work, refining implementation approaches, documenting reusable patterns, and helping create scalable solutions for repeated engineering needs.

Experience engineering and supporting AWS infrastructure in an enterprise environment, including AWS accounts, IAM, networking, security, logging, monitoring, serverless services, and shared platform components. Experience with infrastructure-as-code, automated deployment pipelines, and software-based cloud operations using AWS CDK, Terraform, CloudFormation, or comparable tools. Strong troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, access, connectivity, logging, monitoring, deployment, and AWS service workflows. Experience implementing or supporting secure access patterns such as least-privilege IAM, federated credentials, OIDC/workload identity, customer-managed keys, tagging, and policy guardrails. Ability to work directly with application teams and