Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Centene Management Company LLC is hiring a Senior Applications Security Engineer to build, secure, and support automation, AI, and development capabilities for Security Defense Technologies. The role develops AI-enabled security operations solutions, operates the team’s Kubernetes environment, and promotes secure software development and automation practices.
Responsibilities
- Designs, develops, tests, and maintains automation, integrations, and self-service tools that reduce manual work for SDT technology teams (firewalls, proxies, ZTNA, email security, DLP, EDR, NDR, DDoS, and WAF)
- Builds AI-enabled capabilities for the AI Ops initiative, including models and agents that monitor security tool health metrics, adjust thresholds, identify trends that may lead to incidents, assist engineers with troubleshooting, and provide natural-language access to health data
- Deploys, operates, and troubleshoots containerized workloads in the team’s Kubernetes environment, including shared observability and data collection services
- Applies secure development practices throughout the secure software development life cycle (SSDLC), including threat modeling, secure code review, authentication and authorization, secrets management, logging, and vulnerability remediation
- Helps define and promote CI/CD, source control, testing, and automation standards for SDT
- Documents solutions, creates runbooks, shares knowledge with other engineers, and supports the services the team builds in production
- 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
- A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science) and Requires 4 – 6 years of related experience
- Or equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position
- Hands-on software development experience building production automation, APIs, and integrations, with strong Python skills
- Practical experience developing AI/ML or LLM-based solutions (e.g., agents, retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling, anomaly detection, or model evaluation)
- Hands-on experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting workloads on Kubernetes
- Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure or configuration as code
- Intermediate - Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty
- Intermediate - Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
- Intermediate - Ability to work independently
- Intermediate - Demonstrated analytical skills
- Intermediate - Demonstrated project management skills
- Intermediate - Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure
- Intermediate - Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills
- Experience in a security, SRE, or DevSecOps environment preferred
Benefits
- Health insurance (may be subject to program eligibility)
- 401K and stock purchase plans (may be subject to program eligibility)
- Tuition reimbursement (may be subject to program eligibility)
- Paid time off plus holidays (may be subject to program eligibility)
- A flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules (may be subject to program eligibility)
- Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives
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