Consultant, Cybersecurity (Agentic Solutions Engineer)

Nationwide•Columbus, OH

1d•$118,000 - $222,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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 rare opportunity to help define how agentic AI is used in cyber security at enterprise scale. In this role, you’ll design and build production-ready solutions that combine modern LLM platforms, agent frameworks, enterprise data, and secure workflow orchestration to solve real Security Operations problems. You’ll work across engineering, platform, and cyber security teams to turn high-value use cases into trusted, observable, and governed capabilities—shaping not just individual automations, but the future operating model for AI-enabled cyber defense. 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.

Requirements

Security Operations experience preferred
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Strong software engineering skills, ideally with advanced Python and working ability in adjacent languages (java, typescript) used across the stack
Experience building LLM-powered or agentic applications, including Eval design
Strong prompt, context, and tool-integration design skills
Experience with harness design, retrieval patterns, search, memory, and knowledge grounding
Experience integrating APIs, files, enterprise data, and workflow systems
Ability to translate business processes into deterministic and agent-assisted workflows
Working knowledge of secure design, testing, evaluation, and release practices
Ability to collaborate with architecture, security, platform, and Cyber Security Operations stakeholders
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.
Typically, six years of experience in technology, with four years in cyber security.
Experience using Windows and Linux/Unix operating systems, administration and tools.
Successful candidates will also have experience with network configurations, protocols, scripting, web application security, network security, firewalls and network topology from both physical and logical viewpoints, scripting in PowerShell, Python, Bash and Windows Batch.
Ability to make decisions, recommendations and manage work processes.
Aptitude to influence, build partnerships and set priorities.
Excellent communication skills to interact with all levels of associates, senior management and/or vendors.

Nice To Haves

Insurance and/or financial services industry knowledge a plus
Preferred certifications include: Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), GIAC Certified Intrusion Handler (GCIH), Digital Forensics Investigation: EnCase Certified Examiner (EnCE) certification, GIAC Strategic Planning Policy and Leadership (GSTRT), GIAC Security Expert (GSE), Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP), AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AZ500.

Responsibilities

Designs, builds, and operates agentic cyber security solutions using approved models, agent frameworks, enterprise data sources, and tool integrations.
Partners closely with cyber security professionals, platform and operations engineers to ensure solutions are valuable, secure, observable, governed, and production-ready.
Owns agent behavior, orchestration, prompt and context patterns, retrieval design, evaluation strategy, and workflow implementation.
Build production-grade agent workflows, tools, and orchestration logic
Select appropriate models, prompts, context windows, and memory patterns for the use case
Implement retrieval and enterprise data access in a trustworthy and maintainable way
Design human-in-the-loop steps, exception paths, and quality controls
Define and execute evaluation plans for quality, safety, and regression detection
Instrument the solution with the right telemetry in partnership with platform engineering
Remediate defects quickly and support production troubleshooting when solution logic is involved
Continuously improve solution quality, reusability, and business value over time
Leads or responds to complex 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.
Uses an efficiency mindset for incident response to design and implement automation and orchestration for the enrichment and handling of cyber security events.
Manages and supports vulnerability management via tools, processes, and proactively identifies vulnerabilities in the environment.
Plans and conducts team activities to enrich detection and prevention controls.
Plans and delivers proactive cyber activities (purple teaming, threat hunting, red teaming, etc.) with full understanding 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 current cyber threat landscape to perform evaluation, enrichment and dissemination for action to protect Nationwide members and environment.
Leads and works on initiatives as part of the overall cyber operations strategy.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

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