Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Centene Corporation is hiring a Manager, Endpoint Security Engineering to lead delivery, operations, and capability advancement for its enterprise endpoint security platforms. The role manages the endpoint security engineering team, platform reliability and readiness, strategic initiatives, risk and governance activities, and vendor relationships.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of endpoint security engineers
- Establish priorities, sprint objectives, and operational work plans
- Conduct performance evaluations, career development, coaching, and mentoring
- Develop succession plans and reduce key-person dependency risks
- Build a sustainable operating model that distributes ownership across the team
- Foster a respectful, inclusive team environment by understanding individual perspectives, responding constructively to challenges, and making well-reasoned decisions
- Ensure reliable operation of endpoint security platforms and services
- Maintain operational readiness, support models, escalation paths, and runbooks
- Manage engineering backlogs and technical debt initiatives
- Monitor service health, platform coverage, policy effectiveness, and operational metrics
- Drive consistent execution of security engineering processes
- Advance endpoint security capabilities across prevention, detection, visibility, and control enforcement
- Partner with Capability Stewards to develop multi-year capability roadmaps
- Prioritize initiatives based on risk reduction, operational efficiency, and business value
- Ensure new capabilities transition successfully into production operations
- Provide operational leadership for technologies and capabilities including:
- Manage execution of endpoint security projects and strategic initiatives
- Coordinate resources, timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder communication
- Partner with infrastructure, workplace technology, architecture, and security operations teams
- Ensure projects achieve measurable business and security outcomes
- Track operational risks and control effectiveness
- Escalate issues requiring risk acceptance or executive decisions
- Support audit, compliance, and control validation activities
- Maintain documented standards, procedures, and engineering practices
- Manage relationships with endpoint security vendors and service providers
- Hold vendors accountable to contracted deliverables and service levels
- Review performance metrics, roadmaps, and support effectiveness
- Drive continuous improvement through vendor partnerships
- Performs other duties as assigned
- Complies with all policies and standards
Skills
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future
- Requires a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of related experience
- Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position
- Strong people leadership and team development skills
- Execution-focused management approach
- Ability to balance operational support and strategic improvements
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience managing multiple concurrent security initiatives
- Risk-based decision-making capability
- Ability to translate technical issues into business impact discussions
- Prior people-management experience, with a record of strengthening team effectiveness, engagement, and development
- Demonstrated success improving the reliability, maturity, or effectiveness of the technologies and services supported by their teams
- Ability to lead/manage others
- Collaboration and team building skills
- Effectively coaches and delivers constructive feedback
- Instills commitment to organizational goals
- Ability to communicate and make recommendations to upper management
- Effective conflict management skills
- Develops and delivers effective presentations
- Demonstrated negotiation skills
- Candidates should bring direct engineering experience with enterprise endpoint security, endpoint management, or security enforcement platforms, including hands-on experience with at least some of the following core technologies: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike, Trend Micro Cloud One, Microsoft Intune, Tanium Enforce, and Absolute
- Additional experience with Armis, Nexthink, Dynatrace, or Microsoft Entra is preferred
- Endpoint Security engineering or operations experience preferred
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401K and stock purchase plans
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid time off plus holidays
- A flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules
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