Data Visualization Engineer
About The Position
Northwestern Mutual is looking for enthusiastic technologists who want to grow their career into Product Security with a metrics first and dashboard/visualization focus. In this position, you will work with cross-functional teams while leveraging a set of diverse technologies and an automation first approach to understand key metrics, engineer collection using Python and other scripting capabilities, and visualize metrics to tell a narrative in Grafana. This role requires a DevOps mindset with experience in Development/Scripting as well as Grafana Dashboarding. Must have a proven track record of self-motivated accomplishment. This is an exciting opportunity to build upon technical experience with a strong security mindset.
Requirements
- DevOps mindset with experience in Development/Scripting
- Grafana Dashboarding experience
- Proven track record of self-motivated accomplishment
- Proficient with development and scripting languages, Python preferred
- Proficient with developing dashboards in Grafana and defining dashboard visualizations as code
- Experienced working with application and engineering teams
- Comfortable peer-reviewing code and speaking openly to provide remediation guidance
- A self-directed individual contributor
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree, Associate's degree or equivalent experience with an emphasis in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, MIS or related field
- 1-3+ years' experience in DevOps, AWS, and/or cybersecurity practitioner
- Knowledgeable about secure architecture, engineering and design principles
- Experience conducting security tests (CSPM IAC - Infra as Code misconfiguration scanning, static and dynamic code analysis, software composition analysis, or penetration tests)
- Knowledge of common application and cloud security tools, such as Burp, Zap, Checkmarx, InsightCloudSec (DivvyCloud), PrismaCloud, InsightAppsec, InsightCloudsec, Jfrog Xray
- Experience with CICD pipelines to automate application and infrastructure code deployments
- Experience with workload orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
- Experience with Infrastructure as code concepts and tooling including Terraform or Cloudformation
- Relevant certifications from GIAC, ISC(2) and other recognized cybersecurity industry organizations
Responsibilities
- Engineer collectors using Python through API calls to primary data source systems
- Engineer Grafana Dashboards as code and deploy through CICD pipelines with peer review processes
- Participate in a multi-org group identifying, deploying, testing, and reviewing data and dashboards to accomplish the team narrative
- Stay apprised of current and proposed security changes impacting regulatory, privacy and security industry best practices
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
