Endpoint Security Engineering Manager (Remote/Hybrid)

Centene Corporation; California; Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote or hybrid work options

Excellent benefits package

Job summary

Centene Corporation is seeking an Endpoint Security Engineering Manager to lead the operational delivery and continuous improvement of our endpoint security capabilities in a hybrid work environment in California.

You will oversee an engineering team responsible for endpoint protection technologies, policy implementation, platform health, and incident troubleshooting, while coordinating with senior engineers for architectural direction.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of related experience.
• 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.
• Prior people-management experience, with a record of strengthening team effectiveness, engagement, and development.
• Endpoint Security engineering or operations experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop succession plans and reduce key-person dependency risks.
• 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.
• Prioritize initiatives based on risk reduction, operational efficiency, and business value.
• Ensure new capabilities transition successfully into production operations.
• Manage execution of endpoint security projects and strategic initiatives.
• 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.
• Review performance metrics, roadmaps, and support effectiveness.
• Drive continuous improvement through vendor partnerships.

Skills

Leadership

Security governance

Stakeholder management

Strategic planning

Mentoring

Communications

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

CrowdStrike

Trend Micro Cloud One

Microsoft Intune

Tanium Enforce

Absolute

Armis

Nexthink

Dynatrace

Microsoft Entra

Job description

Centene Corporation is seeking an Endpoint Security Engineering Manager to lead the operational delivery and continuous improvement of our endpoint security capabilities in a hybrid work environment in California.

You will oversee an engineering team responsible for endpoint protection technologies, policy implementation, platform health, and incident troubleshooting, while coordinating with senior engineers for architectural direction.