Specialist, Technology Engineer (cloud Engineer)

Cloud Security Engineer

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 two days per week.

Nationwide's Cloud Security Engineering (CSE) team is seeking a hands-on cloud engineer with a security and automation mindset to build and automate controls across cloud platforms. If you enjoy designing solutions, writing code, and using automation to solve complex problems at scale, this role will give you the opportunity to deepen your expertise in security, engineering, CI/CD, and multi-cloud guardrails.

You'll work primarily with Microsoft Azure while also contributing to initiatives in Amazon Web Services. This is a collaborative role defining, implementing, or maturing cloud controls to defend against current as well as emerging threats.

What you'll do

As a contributing member of the Cloud Security Engineering team, you will:

• Design, build, and operate automated cloud controls and services in AWS and Azure (e.g., serverless functions, policy-as-code).
• Implement and enhance infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Terraform, AWS Cloudformation AWS CDK, Azure Bicep, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, Harness, Azure DevOps) to standardize and scale deployments across accounts and subscriptions.
• Develop reusable templates, libraries, and automation patterns that make it easy for application teams to adopt secure-by-default cloud configurations.
• Build and maintain visibility and reporting for cloud resources (accounts, subscriptions, instances, containers, services) through metrics, alerts, and dashboards.
• Stay current on cloud security vulnerabilities, patterns, and standards and translate them into enterprise controls.
• Partner with application and platform teams on vulnerability remediation and secure deployment patterns.
• Collaborate with architecture and other security teams to design and embed preventive controls into cloud platforms and CI/CD workflows
• Support compliance and governance requirements for workloads migrating to or running in the cloud, ensuring configuration and entitlement standards are met.
• Implement and support data protection, encryption, logging, and monitoring strategies for cloud services, products, and data.
• Troubleshoot and respond to cloud security incidents, contributing to root cause analysis and automation of future preventative controls.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure and/or AWS required; GCP or OCI a plus), including building and operating application workloads or platform services.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming in Python (preferred) or similar scripting language to build tools, integrations, and automations.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (e.g., GitHub, Jenkins, Harness, Azure DevOps) including build, test, and release workflows.
• Practical experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, AWS CDK, Azure Bicep, ARM, CloudFormation) and cloud provisioning automation
• Familiarity with security concepts in one or more areas such as IAM, vulnerability management, data protection, logging/monitoring, network controls, or encryption.
• Strong collaboration, consulting, and documentation skills, including working with distributed engineering and security teams.
• Demonstrated ability to design, refine, and measure engineering processes and controls.
• Understanding of how to evaluate, adopt, and responsibly apply AI-driven tools to accelerate engineering and operations in a secure way.

Desired skills

• Familiarity with security or compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS Benchmarks, PCI DSS) and how they map to cloud controls.
• Experience in architecture, application, engineering, or operations functions related to cloud environments.
• Understanding of defensive technologies (e.g., WAF, IPS, endpoint protection) and common cloud attack patterns and mitigations.
• Experience with log analysis and observability platforms (e.g., Splunk, Cribl, Datadog, or similar).
• Prior experience supporting audits or remediating audit findings in cloud environments.
• Technical experience in at least one foundational discipline: networking, systems/servers, or endpoint engineering.

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! The Technology Engineer delivers standard and custom supportable technology products based on Nationwide's architectural standards, technology roadmaps, industry trends and business requirements. You'll be focused on collaboration, data, systems, storage, middleware, network, security and contact center technology products. You're also accountable for the operational aspects and management for the above products in accordance with the business requirements and defined service level agreements (SLAs).

Job Description

• Creates and implements standard builds/templates for all technology platforms.
• Drives requirements to meet current and future needs, tracks and reports capacity postures.
• Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
• Analyzes reports and delivery recommendations to remediate capacity issues.
• Implements capacity enhancements.
• Designs standard and custom technology solutions for business partner projects, including pre-production testing, performance tuning, handoffs and certification.
• Delivers technology/product optimization, migrations and management, including technology/product design, planning, power and environmental management.
• Collaborates with others to develop meaningful metrics that drive fact-based decisions on a given product/environment/solution.
• Conducts proactive system maintenance, disaster recovery planning, data backup and recovery as well as inventory, configuration and utility product management.
• Executes production engineering processes, incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, change management, release management and knowledge management.
• Provides production support for all technology platforms.
• Provides oversight for technical labs and development environments.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Manager/Director Technology Engineering Manager/Technology Product Manager.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems or a related field is preferred.

License/Certification/Designation: Technology certifications or designation are not required, but encouraged (i.e.: AWS, Azure, scripting and development languages, delivery methods, security).

Experience: Four years of experience with moderately complex integrated solutions and an ability to develop and modify existing solutions for specialized needs. Experience with automation of solution configurations deployment and with system management processes and tools. Experience with concepts and solutions: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and Package Solutions.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Strong communication skills, knowledge of planning, management and execution of Accelerated Solutions Deliver framework, Information Security acumen. Influencing, negotiating and priority setting is needed. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge is a plus.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager's leader and Human Resource Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not Eligible)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Some travel may be required.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

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