What's the role?

Northwestern Mutual is looking for enthusiastic technologists who want to grow their career in DevSecOps within the SaaS and Email Security Domains. In this position, you will work with cross-functional teams while leveraging a set of diverse technologies and an automation first approach to strive towards improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our Enterprise Product Security Organization.

In this role, the candidate can expect to:

• Engineer cybersecurity solutions with a heavy focus on automation to reduce manual and repetitive tasks.
• Take current legacy solutions as well as new capability implementations that are in progress and support movement beyond MVP
• Design, implement, and maintain procedures, processes, and methodologies that support DevSecOps capabilities
• Engage in process development and optimization efforts and systems engineering functions.
• Analyze operations to look for trends that impact performance, efficiency and security posture. Seek, design and implement solutions that are either technical or procedural or enabled through automation.
• Train and mentor teammates
• Keep abreast of security trends, industry security frameworks and changing standards in the SaaS and Email Security space; maintain a superior knowledge of capabilities and vendor product offerings in this space
• The primary expectation for this role is to serve as a developer; although, the engineering and operational support of our technologies is a team effort.

What kind of person should you be?

• Integrity, initiative and inclusion are essential principles
• You appreciate the data of our company & clients is of utmost importance to protect
• You have the ability to quickly learn unfamiliar/new products and technologies. You have the commitment to do so.

• Must be proficient with development and scripting languages: Python, PowerShell, Bash, and/or .NET preferred

• Experienced working with application and engineering teams & comfortable peer-reviewing code.
• You gain intrinsic & extrinsic value from continuous professional development.
• You are a Team player first and foremost but can work as a self-directed individual contributor
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deal with ambiguity
• You believe actions speak louder than words.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Advanced education in information systems, software engineering, computer science, systems engineering or cybersecurity. Education comes in various forms: Degrees, certifications, traditional 4 year college and technical institutes, life/work experiences - we value diverse backgrounds.

• 3-5+ years' experience in development, infrastructure, or cybersecurity
• Experience with CICD pipelines to automate application and infrastructure code deployments
• Understanding of a wide-range of cybersecurity capabilities including security engineering, identify & access management, incident response, logging & monitoring, penetration testing, and vulnerability management
• Solid knowledge of collaboration security solutions (email security filtering tools, M365, Slack and Zoom security configurations, CASB, etc) and SaaS Configuration Management pertinent to security best practices. Note: All of these domains are not required, but applicants should understand the breadth of the team's responsibilities (and should be motivated by that).
• Solid written and verbal communications skills

Plus, to have:

• Relevant certifications from GIAC, ISC(2) and other recognized cybersecurity industry organizations

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Northwestern Mutual pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement in the salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. At Northwestern Mutual, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. Please note that the salary range listed in the posting is the standard pay structure. Positions in certain locations (such as California) may provide an increase on the standard pay structure based on the location. Please click here for additional information relating to location-based pay structures.

We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you work or would be working in California, Colorado, New York City, Washington or outside of a Corporate location, please click here for information pertaining to compensation and benefits.