Specialist, Technology Engineer (Cloud Engineer)

About

Nationwide’s Cloud Security Engineering (CSE) team is seeking a hands‑on cloud engineer with a security and automation mindset to build and automate controls across cloud platforms. If you enjoy designing solutions, writing code, and using automation to solve complex problems at scale, this role will give you the opportunity to deepen your expertise in security, engineering, CI/CD, and multi‑cloud guardrails.

You’ll work primarily with Microsoft Azure while also contributing to initiatives in Amazon Web Services. This is a collaborative role defining, implementing, or maturing cloud controls to defend against current as well as emerging threats.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and operate automated cloud controls in AWS and Azure (e.g., serverless functions, policy‑as‑code).
• Implement and enhance infrastructure‑as‑code and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, Azure Bicep, Git Hub Actions, etc.) to standardize and scale deployments across accounts and subscriptions.
• Develop reusable templates, libraries, and automation patterns that make it easy for application teams to adopt secure‑by‑default cloud configurations.
• Build and maintain visibility and reporting for cloud resources (accounts, subscriptions, instances, containers, services) through metrics, alerts, and dashboards.
• Stay current on cloud security vulnerabilities, patterns, and standards and translate them into enterprise controls.
• Partner with application and platform teams on vulnerability remediation and secure deployment patterns.
• Collaborate with architecture and other security teams to design and embed preventive controls into cloud platforms and CI/CD workflows.
• Support compliance and governance requirements for workloads migrating to or running in the cloud, ensuring configuration and entitlement standards are met.
• Implement and support data protection, encryption, logging, and monitoring strategies for cloud services, products, and data.
• Troubleshoot and respond to cloud security incidents, contributing to root cause analysis and automation of future preventative controls.

Required skills

• Hands‑on experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure and/or AWS required; GCP or OCI a plus), including building and operating application workloads or platform services.
• Proficiency in scripting or programming in Python (preferred) or similar scripting language to build tools, integrations, and automations.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (e.g., Git Hub, Jenkins, Harness, Azure Dev Ops) including build, test, and release workflows.
• Practical experience with infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., Terraform, AWS CDK, Azure Bicep, ARM, Cloud Formation) and cloud provisioning automation.
• Familiarity with security concepts in one or more areas such as IAM, vulnerability management, data protection, logging/monitoring, network controls, or encryption.
• Strong collaboration, consulting, and documentation skills, including working with distributed engineering and security teams.
• Demonstrated ability to design, refine, and measure engineering processes and controls.
• Understanding of how to evaluate, adopt, and responsibly apply AI‑driven tools to accelerate engineering and operations in a secure way.

Desired skills

• Familiarity with security or compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST, CIS Benchmarks, PCI DSS) and how they map to cloud controls.
• Experience in architecture, application, engineering, or operations functions related to cloud environments.
• Understanding of defensive technologies (e.g., WAF, IPS, endpoint protection) and common cloud attack patterns and mitigations.
• Experience with log analysis and observability platforms (e.g., Splunk, Cribl, Datadog, or similar).
• Prior experience supporting audits or remediating audit findings in cloud environments.
• Technical experience in at least one foundational discipline (networking, systems/servers, or endpoint engineering).

Benefits

• medical insurance
• dental insurance
• vision insurance
• life insurance
• short term disability coverage
• long term disability coverage
• paid time off
• paid holidays
• Lifetime paid time off
• Unity Day paid time off
• 401(k) with company match
• company-paid pension plan