Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Nationwide is a Fortune 100 insurance and financial services company whose Technology team enables innovation and secure adoption of new technologies. The Consultant, Cybersecurity (Agentic Solutions Engineer) designs, builds, and operates production-ready agentic AI solutions for cyber defense, integrating LLM platforms, enterprise data, secure workflows, and observability. The role also supports cyber operations through incident response, threat detection, vulnerability management, automation, and proactive defense activities.

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

Skills

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 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, prorated 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
• The 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.

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