Firewall Infrastructure Lead: Reliability & Automation

Centene Corporation; Florida; Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 191,000; Full time

Job summary

Centene Corporation is seeking a Manager–Firewall Infrastructure Engineering to lead the firewall infrastructure team, ensuring reliability and security while aligning delivery with cybersecurity objectives. You will manage hardware lifecycle, software currency, platform capacity, and runbooks to support enterprise systems.

This leadership role drives operational health, backlog management, capacity planning, and multi-year roadmaps, collaborating with architecture, network, cloud, and security

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of related experience.
• Experience leading firewall infrastructure teams and driving operational excellence.
• Ability to manage priorities, coaching, and succession planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of firewall infrastructure engineers.
• Establish priorities, sprint objectives, and operational work plans.
• Conduct performance management, 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.

Skills

Team leadership

Performance management

Stakeholder management

Project execution

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Centene Corporation is seeking a Manager–Firewall Infrastructure Engineering to lead the firewall infrastructure team, ensuring reliability and security while aligning delivery with cybersecurity objectives. You will manage hardware lifecycle, software currency, platform capacity, and runbooks to support enterprise systems.

This leadership role drives operational health, backlog management, capacity planning, and multi-year roadmaps, collaborating with architecture, network, cloud, and security