Consultant, Software Engineer - India (DevOps, JFrog, UCD, Harness, Jenkins, GitHub & GitHub Actions)
Description: This position is for a tech lead role. Leadership and Ownership will be the primary soft skills needed for this position. Technical skills outlined below.
Must Have Technical Skills:
- GitHub & GitHub Actions: In-depth, hands-on experience with repository management, branching strategies, CI workflows, and pipeline troubleshooting.
- Harness (CI/CD): Strong experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines, managing deployment strategies, and supporting release orchestration.
- JFrog Platform (Artifactory, Xray): Proven expertise in artifact management, repository configuration, security scanning, and CI/CD integrations.
- Kubernetes & Linux: Practical experience supporting containerized applications and Linux-based environments, including:
- System administration and troubleshooting
- Performance, permissions, and networking
- Operational stability and reliability
- Basic Knowledge in AWS Cloud services like IAM, S3, Workspaces, Cloud Watch etc.
- Linux concepts and command knowledge
- Build and manage containers
- Understanding of containerized workloads
- Kubernetes triaging and deployment
- Programming & Scripting Languages: Working knowledge of: Python, TypeScript & Java
- Technical Leadership & Guidance: Ability to guide development teams, review solutions at a high level, and ensure adherence to engineering best practices, even when not writing code on a daily basis.
Nice to have Technical Skills:
- Jenkins: Hands-on experience configuring pipelines, maintaining jobs, and integrating Jenkins with modern CI/CD ecosystems.
- Multi-Platform CI/CD Environments: Familiarity with organizations operating or transitioning across multiple CI/CD and deployment platforms.
- Monitoring, Logging & Observability
- New relic, Grafana and Splunk usage and understanding
- Monitor system health and performance
- Security & Compliance: Managing secrets/passwords/Certificates/Access Controls for tools
- Release & Deployment Management: Understanding of Release & Deployment Management and strategies
- System Reliability & Troubleshooting
- Handle production incidents
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA)
- Improve system resilience and uptime
- Participating in on call rotations
Soft Skills:
- Continuous Learning: Demonstrates curiosity and adaptability as tools, platforms, and best practices evolve.
- Communication: Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable guidance for engineers and stakeholders. Communicates clearly, respectfully, and thoughtfully across time zones and cultures.
- Technical Aptitude & Critical Thinking: Shows strong curiosity and a willingness to continuously learn new technologies, tools, and processes.
- Ownership: Demonstrates strong sense of ownership and the pride of supporting our internal customers.
- Collaboration & Attitude
- Willing and eager to collaborate closely with core (onshore and offshore) team members to achieve shared goals.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, asking clarifying questions, and articulating risks and solutions constructively.
- Actively shares knowledge with developers and supports their growth through mentoring and guidance.
- Displays strong positive and go getter attitude to solve complex issues even when the solution is not obvious.
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Job Description Summary
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!As a Software Engineer, you will focus on mentoring and leading others to deliver high quality, cost-effective technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
Mentors and trains other team members on design techniques, tools and coding standards.
Provides strategic advice on using technology to achieve goals.
Drives cross-collaboration and execution of projects across multiple teams.
Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards and optimal practices.
Champions the use of DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques.
Ensures continuous learning and improvement through ongoing training, practice and innovation.
Manages individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
Additional responsibilities may include collaboration across teams and adherence to company standards.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Qualifications & Experience:
Education:
Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, mathematics or related field is strongly preferred.
Experience:
Six years of experience in programming and systems analysis. Three years of experience in project management is preferred.
Technical Skills:
CI/CD
Cloud Computing
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Software Security
Software Testing
Systems Integration
Technology Roadmap
Vendor Management
Soft Skills & Attributes:
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Analytical and problem-solving mindset
Ability to work in agile and global environments
Time management and prioritization
Hands-on technical leadership experience leading project teams and setting technical direction. Proficiency in one programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript. Knowledge of software development lifecycle. Proven ability to tackle sophisticated business and development problems. Ability to thrive in a team environment. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.
Additional Information:
Reporting Structure:
Reports to Technology Manager/Director - India
Working Hours:
Aligned to India business hours with flexibility for global collaboration.
Location Flexibility:
[Hybrid/Remote/In-office] with periodic in-office collaboration.
Equal Opportunity Statement:
Nationwide is committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, gender, disability, religion, or other protected categories.
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