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Nationwide Insurance

Consultant, Cyber Operations Professional

Remote

If you’re passionate about innovation and love working in an environment where you can constantly improve and adopt new technologies to drive business results, then Nationwide’s Information Technology team could be the place for you!

Job Description

  • If you’re passionate about becoming a Nationwide associate and believe you have the potential to be something great, let’s talk. We’re on the Fortune Magazine 100 Best Places to Work. We are proud of Nationwide's inclusive culture that supports every associate's success and encourages an environment where you will be challenged, appreciated, respected, and engaged. That’s how we win Gallup’s Great Workplace Award year after year.  

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    Nationwide Technology is more than your traditional Insurance and Financial technology teams.   We work to break the corporate mold with our business partners and product managers.  We strive to build a product-centric culture that delivers true value to our customers.  We are a team that embraces exciting and potential new ways to do business, powered by technology in the Insurance and Financial industries and beyond. 

    ** Monday - Friday Day normal business day with rotating on-call responsibilities (approx once a month). We are open, to the right candidate, for this to be completed 100% remotely (WFH).

    This posting is for an opening with the CSOC Threat Response Team

    Desired Skills:

    • End to end critical thinking and problem-solving skills

    • Ability to quickly resolve issues with possession of strong communication skills (verbal and written)

    • Ability to maintain a professional demeanor in stressful situations

    • Understanding of packet analysis and networking

    • Familiarity with incident response life-cycle

    • Familiarity with Threat Hunting principles

    • Ability to be part of on-call rotation

    • Analytical and detail-oriented – individuals must have passion and initiative

    • Independent-thinker and self-starter, who still can work well within a team environment

    • Thorough knowledge or experience with Security Event Information Management tools

    • Thorough knowledge of TCP/IP, UDP, DNS, FTP, NetBIOS, and other protocols.

    • Thorough knowledge of log analysis tools (Log Logic, Splunk, or similar)

    • Thorough knowledge of Linux, UNIX, Windows, and mobile operating systems

    • Thorough knowledge of basic network services, vulnerabilities, and attacks

    • Thorough knowledge of exploits and vulnerabilities

    • Thorough knowledge of malware and eradication 

    • Thorough knowledge of programming and shell scripting


    Preferred:

    • Code development background with experience in various languages

    • Familiarity with the ITIL framework

    • Certifications: GSEC, GCIH, GMON, CISSP, CEH, or any similar InfoSec Certifications

    Compensation Grade: G5

    Colorado Residents: Email taproces@nationwide.com for salary information.

Job Description Summary

If you’re committed to delivering technology solutions to support a company providing outstanding service to its customers, then Nationwide Technology may be the place for you! Our industry-leading technology workforce personifies an agile work environment and a collaborative, inclusive culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!

As a Consultant, 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.

  • Executes the automation of containment of cyber security events.

  • Manages and supports vulnerability management via tools and processes and proactively identify vulnerabilities in the environment.

  • Plans and conducts team activities to enrich detection and prevention controls.

  • Provides identification of critical log sources and system events used for creation and tuning of cyber security detections.

  • Leads and develops initiatives as part of the overall cyber operations strategy.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Manager, Risk Leader or above.

Typical Skills and Experiences: 

Education: Undergraduate studies (bachelor’s degree preferred) 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.

License/Certification/Designation: 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: Six or more years of experience in technology, with four or more 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.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Ability to make decisions and recommendations. Aptitude to influence, build partnerships and set priorities. Superb communication skills to interact with all levels of associates, senior management and/or vendors. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge 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 HR Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions: 

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment.

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. 

Job ID: 29e5ade2c23f5f7673ee87f96b89c7bbae1d2c74afc19c677c90c1311cd1e8e4
Employment Type: Other