Agentic AI Engineer — Security Automation & AI-Driven Tools

Centene Corporation; Missouri; Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K and stock purchase plans

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off and holidays

Flexible work schedules (remote,hybrid

Job summary

Centene Corporation in Missouri seeks an experienced engineer to design, build, and operate governed agentic AI capabilities that reduce repetitive security engineering work and create reusable automation patterns for Security Defense Technologies.

You will collaborate with security engineering, architecture, governance, platform, and operations teams to move validated prototypes into supported capabilities, apply secure SDLC practices, and document architecture, controls, runbooks, and evidence

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field and 4–6 years of related experience.
• Or equivalent experience reflecting the level of this position.
• Senior-level experience building production software, security automation, platform engineering, or AI-enabled systems.
• Direct experience with agentic AI is strongly preferred, but depth in software engineering plus applied AI/LLM development may substitute.
• Experience with AWS, Bedrock, and Databricks preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop agentic workflows, AI-assisted applications, tool integrations, retrieval patterns, and deterministic automation for security use cases.
• Define agent boundaries, identity, permissions, approved tools, human approval points, auditability, rollback, and emergency-stop behavior.
• Build reusable services and components using Python, APIs, Git-based CI/CD, containers, and enterprise automation platforms.
• Apply secure SDLC practices, including threat modeling, code and dependency scanning, testing, peer review, and production-readiness validation.
• Implement telemetry for agent decisions, tool calls, failures, quality, security events, and operational health.
• Partner with security engineering, architecture, governance, platform, and operations teams to move validated prototypes into supported capabilities.
• Document architecture, controls, runbooks, test evidence, ownership, and support models.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Skills

Senior software engineering

Agentic AI experience

AWS/Bedrock/Databricks

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field

Tools

AWS

Bedrock

Databricks

Job description

Centene Corporation in Missouri seeks an experienced engineer to design, build, and operate governed agentic AI capabilities that reduce repetitive security engineering work and create reusable automation patterns for Security Defense Technologies.

You will collaborate with security engineering, architecture, governance, platform, and operations teams to move validated prototypes into supported capabilities, apply secure SDLC practices, and document architecture, controls, runbooks, and evidence