Specialist, Cybersecurity (Full Stack)

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 modern applications that shape how Cyber Security Operations gets work done. In this role, you’ll design and deliver production-ready user experiences and supporting services that connect secure frontend workflows with enterprise APIs, backend services, and emerging AI-enabled capabilities. You’ll work across cyber security, platform, architecture, and engineering teams to create scalable, maintainable, and observable applications that improve usability, accelerate operations, and help define the next generation of digital experiences in the enterprise. Job description Designs, builds, and operates modern user-facing applications and supporting services that enable secure, scalable, and maintainable digital experiences for Cyber Security Operations and adjacent enterprise workflows. Owns frontend implementation, backend service integration, application workflow design, and the engineering patterns needed to deliver production-ready experiences across Angular, Java/Spring Boot, Python, and approved Nationwide AWS golden path technologies. Partners closely with cyber security professionals, platform and operations engineers, solution architects, and data or AI engineering teams to ensure applications are usable, secure, observable, well governed, and aligned to enterprise delivery standards. Requirements • Strong full stack engineering skills with deep experience in Angular for frontend development and strong working ability in Java, Spring Boot, and Python • Experience building and maintaining production web applications and APIs using enterprise development standards and reusable platform patterns • Strong knowledge of frontend architecture, component design, state management, API integration, and secure application development practices • Experience building backend services and integration layers that support UI workflows, orchestration, data access, and enterprise system connectivity • Familiarity with AI-assisted software development practices, including effective use of coding assistants, prompt-guided development, code review acceleration, and test generation • Preference for experience integrating applications with agentic solutions, LLM-backed services, retrieval components, or workflow automation capabilities • Experience working within AWS-aligned enterprise delivery patterns, golden path templates, and approved CI/CD, deployment, and operational controls • Working knowledge of observability, release practices, production support, and operational readiness for user-facing applications and services • Ability to collaborate with architecture, security, platform, and Cyber Security Operations stakeholders • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Security Operations experience preferred Expectations • Build and maintain production-grade frontend applications and supporting services using Angular, Java/Spring Boot, and Python where appropriate for the use case • Design intuitive UI workflows that connect reliably to APIs, enterprise systems, and downstream service integrations • Implement reusable frontend patterns, shared components, and application structures that align to Nationwide golden path technology and engineering standards • Build and maintain backend services that support UI data needs, orchestration logic, integration requirements, and secure access to approved enterprise capabilities • Use AI-assisted development techniques responsibly to improve engineering throughput, code quality, documentation, test coverage, and delivery speed • Partner with AI, platform, and security teams to integrate applications with agentic workflows, LLM-backed capabilities, and human-in-the-loop experiences when appropriate • Instrument applications and services with the right logs, metrics, traces, and health telemetry to support monitoring and production troubleshooting • Support secure authentication, authorization, secrets handling, and policy-aligned delivery practices across the application lifecycle • Troubleshoot application defects, integration issues, and production incidents quickly, and continuously improve engineering quality, maintainability, and developer experience over time #LI-AC1 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 Key Responsibilities: Responds to cyber incidents using industry recognized methodology, e.g., PICERL (Preparation, Identification, Containment, Eradication, Recovery and Lessons Learned). Creates uplift of cyber security detection and alerts for ongoing prevention of threats. Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities. Implements automation and orchestration for the enrichment and handling of cyber security events. Supports vulnerability management via tools and processes and proactively identify vulnerabilities in the environment. Assists in the planning and execution of team activities to enrich detection and prevention controls. Participates in proactive cyber activity (purple teaming, threat hunting, red teaming, etc.) and expands awareness across all aspects of the MITRE ATT&CK framework. Identifies critical log sources and system events used for creation and tuning of cyber security detections. Maintains awareness of the cyber threat landscape to assist with the evaluation, enrichment and dissemination for action to protect Nationwide members and environment. May perform other responsibilities as assigned. Reporting Relationships : Reports to Manager , Risk Lead er or abov e. Typical Skills and Experiences: Education : Undergraduate studies in cyber security, management information systems, engineering, math, computer science, data analytics or comparable experience and education strongly preferred. Graduate studies in cyber security, computer science or a related field are a plus. License/Certification/Designation : Preferred certifications include: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Cisco Certif