Consultant, Site Reliability Engineer

Nationwide

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Location
Columbus, OHDes Moines, IAScottsdale, AZ
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Full-time
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12 days ago
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Nationwide is a Fortune 100 insurance and financial services company offering auto, home, life, and commercial insurance along with retirement savings, asset management, and banking products. Industry: Insurance & Financial Services

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TL;DR · Consultant, Site Reliability Engineer

The Consultant, Site Reliability Engineer joins the CLS team to ensure the performance, scalability, and reliability of business applications. This role involves taking end-to-end ownership of reliability outcomes by defining Service Level Objectives, managing 24x7 on-call production support, and leading root cause analysis for major incidents. You will spend at least 50% of your time developing software to improve observability, monitoring, and self-healing capabilities while reducing operational toil. Key responsibilities include automating infrastructure, managing CI/CD pipelines, and designing reliability into new systems. Required skills include experience with complex distributed systems, infrastructure as code, and scripting languages. You will solve technical challenges across user-facing applications and underlying platforms, ensuring secure interactions between internal systems and Software as a Service providers within a financial services context.

What you'll do

  • Define and monitor Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to improve application health, availability, and performance.
  • Lead 24x7 on-call support and manage Major Incident (P0) responses, including triage and root cause analysis.
  • Develop software and tools to automate toil, improve observability, and enhance system reliability.
  • Partner with engineering teams to "design reliability in" to new and existing systems and architectures.
  • Implement secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the entire delivery lifecycle.
  • Manage interactions between internal systems and Software as a Service (SaaS) providers through engineering and relationship management.
  • Create dashboards, metrics, and actionable telemetry to detect issues early and accelerate resolution.

What we're looking for

  • Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, or a related field (preferred).
  • Technology certifications in AWS, Azure, scripting, development languages, delivery methods, or security (preferred).
  • Six or more years of technology experience with system management and complex system design.
  • At least five years of experience building and operating complex distributed systems.
  • Proven experience with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and other modern IT practices.
  • Experience modifying code and configurations to improve availability, latency, and performance using a systematic problem-solving approach.
  • Strong communication, negotiation, and information security acumen.
  • Knowledge of the Accelerated Solutions Deliver framework and vendor management skills (preferred).

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