Manager, Endpoint Security Engineering

Centene Corporation; California City (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K

Stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Flexible schedules

Job summary

Centene Corporation is seeking an Endpoint Security Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team responsible for endpoint protection technologies, policy implementation, platform health, and operational readiness. You will drive performance, mentoring, and strategic improvements across security initiatives to reduce business risk.

You will partner with security operations, architecture, and infrastructure teams to ensure measurable security outcomes while maintaining a flexible work model

Qualifications

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Execution-focused management approach.
• Experience managing multiple concurrent security initiatives.
• Risk-based decision-making capability.
• Prior people-management experience with team development.

Responsibilities

• Conduct performance evaluations, coaching, and mentoring.
• 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.
• Partner with infrastructure, workplace technology, architecture, and security operations teams.
• Ensure projects achieve measurable business and security outcomes.
• Track operational risks and control effectiveness.

Education

Bachelor's degree

5+ years related experience

Job description

Position Purpose

The Endpoint Security Engineering Manager is responsible for the operational leadership, delivery execution, workforce management, and capability advancement of the organization's endpoint security capabilities. This leader ensures the enterprise endpoint security platform remains effective, scalable, measurable, and aligned to business risk reduction objectives. The role manages the engineering team responsible for endpoint protection technologies, endpoint security policy implementation, platform health, operational readiness, and continuous improvement initiatives. The Manager is accountable for delivery and team performance, while partnering closely with senior engineers and capability stewards for technical leadership and architectural direction. 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. This technical foundation is important for providing engineering leadership, participating in complex technical discussions and incident troubleshooting, assessing architecture and configuration decisions, and providing meaningful technical guidance to the endpoint security engineering team.

Sponsorship and future sponsorship are not available for this opportunity, including employment-based visa types H-1B, L-1, O-1, H-1B1, F-1, J -1, OPT, or CPT.

• Conduct performance evaluations, career development, coaching, and mentoring.
• 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.

Capability Management

• Prioritize initiatives based on risk reduction, operational efficiency, and business value.
• Ensure new capabilities transition successfully into production operations.

Security Platform Ownership

• Endpoint Security Policy Management.

Program and Project Execution

• 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.

Governance and Risk Management

• 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.

Vendor and Service Provider Management

• 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.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Education/Experience

• 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.
• Demonstrated success improving the reliability, maturity, or effectiveness of the technologies and services supported by their teams.
• Endpoint Security engineering or operations experience preferred.
• Ability to lead/manage others.
• Collaboration and team building skills.
• Ability to communicate and make recommendations to upper management.
• Effective conflict management skills.

You’ll take on meaningful challenges that directly support individuals, families, and communities, building your skills while making healthcare more accessible and effective. It’s work with a purpose you can see, backed by a team committed to improving lives well beyond the workday.

Centene offers a comprehensive benefits package including:

• competitive pay
• 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

Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law, including full-time or part-time status.

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.