Specialist, Cybersecurity (Agentic Solutions Engineer)

Location: Ohio - Columbus, Three Nationwide Plaza, Arizona - Scottsdale, 18700 North Hayden Road, United States - Remote, Iowa - Des Moines, 1100 Locust Street

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

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, Des Moines, Iowa, or Scottsdale, Arizona office 2 days (Mondays & Wednesdays) per week. Remote internal associates may also be considered.

The Cyber Security Operations Center’s Innovation and Integration (CSOC-INI) team transforms emerging ideas into secure, production-ready capabilities that advance cyber defense. Across agentic solutions, modern application engineering, platform foundations, and security data engineering, we translate complex operational needs into scalable, observable outcomes.

This is a high-impact opportunity to build the secure production backbone for agentic AI in Cyber Security Operations. In this role, you’ll create and operate the platform capabilities that let agentic solutions run safely and reliably at enterprise scale—from cloud environments, deployment pipelines, and runtime controls to identity, observability, and recovery mechanisms. You’ll partner closely with solution engineers and cyber security leaders to make sure innovative AI services are not just deployable, but governable, resilient, and ready for real-world operations.

Job description

Builds and operates the secure platform foundation that hosts agentic solutions in production for the Cyber Security Operations Center.

Owns environments, deployment automation, runtime controls, identity and access patterns, observability, operational readiness, and service reliability.

Partners closely with agentic solution engineers to provide reusable platform capabilities and to ensure agentic services canbe deployed, monitored, governed, and recovered safely at enterprise scale.

Requirements

• Strong cloud and platform engineering skills

• Experience with infrastructure as code (AWS CDK), CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Harness NextGen), artifact management, and runtime hosting

• Strong knowledge of identity, access control, secrets handling, and service-to-service security

• Experience with observability stacks including logs, metrics, traces, and alerting

• Experience with release controls, rollback patterns, and incident response

• Working knowledge of container/image lifecycle, policy enforcement, and software supply chain security

• Familiarity with AI/agent workloads, especially their runtime, cost, and monitoring concerns

• Ability to standardize platform patterns that can be reused across multiple solutions

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Security Operations experience preferred

Expectations

• Provision and maintain secure, repeatable runtime environments for agentic solutions

• Own deployment pipelines, release guardrails, and artifact promotion practices

• Implement and operate observability, alerting, health checks, and operational dashboards

• Enforce identity, access, policy, and runtime security controls

• Support feature flagging, kill-switch patterns, rollback, and safe recovery mechanisms

• Monitor cost, performance, reliability, and capacity for production services

• Lead incident response for platform or runtime issues and partner on joint triage for solution issues

• Continuously improve platform standards, reusable capabilities, and operational maturity

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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 Cyber Operations professional, you'll be on the front line, protecting Nationwide's members and data! You will be immersed with incident response, cyber strategy and guidance, defense optimization and scanning and exploitation. We'll count on you to provide enterprise services in forensic investigation, attack and penetration, vulnerability scanning and response, cyber defense, security intelligence, security operations and infrastructure risk management.

Job Description

We currently anticipate accepting applications until 08/21/2026. However, we encourage early submissions, as the posting may close sooner if a strong candidate slate is identified before the deadline.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

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 (or classification) protected by applicable law.

This position could be filled within any of the lower 48 U.S. states.

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Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.

The national salary range for Specialist, Cyber Operations Professional : $95,500.00-$177,500.00

The expected starting salary range for Specialist, Cyber Operations Professional : $95,500.00 - $143,500.00