Specialist, Cybersecurity

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.

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Java Integration and Data Acquisition Engineer

About the role

Nationwide's Cyber Security Operations Center is hiring a hands-on Java engineer to own and extend our existing fleet of integration services that acquire, normalize, and deliver data from complex enterprise and third-party systems. Day one, you'll begin taking over existing projects that execute telemetry and retention pulls from a range of APIs — solving the hard problems that appear beyond a simple REST call: evolving contracts, pagination, throttling, async workflows, GraphQL, Microsoft Graph, gRPC, tricky encodings, and binary data. Over time, the role grows to include Angular backend development — the database access, service orchestration, and secure LLM-powered APIs that support Angular front ends.

This is a backend and integration engineering role for someone who pairs strong modern Java skills with the instincts of a protocol and data-format troubleshooter.

What you'll do

• Own, operate, maintain, and extend a fleet of Java/Spring Boot integration projects running telemetry and retention pulls, in a modern CI/CD, Kubernetes, and observability environment.

• Integrate with complex REST, Microsoft Graph, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs, handling auth, pagination, throttling, async workflows, and partial failures.

• Parse and normalize messy JSON, XML, encoded, compressed, and binary payloads — reliably and at scale.

• Build resilient, observable integrations and secure LLM-powered features with proper guardrails.

• Grow into Angular backend-for-frontend development — database access, service orchestration, and secure LLM-powered APIs.

Must-have qualifications

• Advanced Java and strong production experience with Spring Boot and its ecosystem.

• Strong database integration skills — SQL/NoSQL, transactions, schema design, query tuning, and ORM (Spring Data, JPA/Hibernate, JDBC).

• Building and operating containerized Java services through Git-based CI/CD in Kubernetes or comparable orchestration.

• API integration well beyond basic CRUD — auth, pagination, rate limits, retries, and unreliable upstream behavior — including hands-on Microsoft Graph or similarly complex enterprise APIs.

• Working experience consuming or implementing GraphQL, plus gRPC and Protocol BuAers.

• Deep JSON and XML parsing (Jackson, StAX/SAX/JAXB) with secure parser configurations, and byte-level diagnosis of text-encoding and binary-format issues.

• Resilience engineering — timeouts, retries, backoA, circuit breakers, idempotency, and checkpointing — with strong automated testing (JUnit, contract, and adversarial fixtures).

• Experience integrating applications with LLM APIs or SDKs (structured output, streaming, context limits, provider failures).

• Secure development practices and clear communication of protocol and data quality issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Java 25+ and Spring Boot 4.0+; Microsoft Graph delta sync and subscriptions; Angular BFF patterns with SSE or WebSockets.

• AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Vault, GitHub Actions, Harness, Splunk, New Relic, Apigee, and Kafka.

• Enterprise LLM platforms, RAG, embeddings, vector search, or agent workflows.

• Working Python or scripting for prototyping of data inspection and rapid API investigation.

• Experience designing backend APIs for Angular or comparable single-page applications (a growth area for this role).

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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.

• Additional responsibilities may include collaboration across teams and adherence to company standards.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications & Experience:

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. 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.

Experience:

At least three years of experience in technology. Experience in working with operating systems, networking, desktop support, application development, end point security, database management or information security. Successful candidates will have experience configuring and using Windows and Linux/Unix operating systems.

Technical Skills:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Cloud Security

• Cybersecurity

• Incident Response

• Log Analysis

• MITRE ATT&CK Framework

• Networking Fundamentals

• Vulnerability Management

Soft Skills & Attributes:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Analytical and problem-solving mindset

• Ability to work in agile and global environments

• Time management and prioritization

• Action oriented and ability to make decisions and recommendations. Aptitude to build partnerships, understand business processes, and set priorities. Insurance and/or financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Additional Information:

Reporting Structure:

Reports to Leader – India

Working Hours:

Aligned to India business hours with flexibility for global collaboration.

Location Flexibility:

[Hybrid/Remote/In-office] with periodic in-office collaboration.

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Nationwide is committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, gender, disability, religion, or other protected categories.

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