Senior Applications Security Engineer, AI & Automation Development

Centene Corp.; 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 + holidays

Remote, hybrid, field or office work

Job summary

Centene is seeking an engineer to build automation, AI-enabled solutions, and scalable infrastructure within the SDT Defense Automation & Transformation team. You will design and maintain automation tools, deploy Kubernetes workloads, and advance secure software development practices (SSDLC) across projects.

Responsibilities include building AI-enabled capabilities, integrating security, and supporting CI/CD standards while documenting solutions and sharing knowledge with colleagues.

Qualifications

• Hands-on software development experience building production automation, APIs, and integrations.
• Experience developing AI/ML or LLM-based solutions (agents, retrieval-augmented generation, tool calling).
• Experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting workloads on Kubernetes.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure or configuration as code.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, tests, and maintains automation, integrations, and self-service tools.
• Builds AI-enabled capabilities for AI Ops initiative.
• Deploys, operates, and troubleshoots containerized workloads in Kubernetes.

Skills

Python

AI/ML

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative or business field

Tools

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Position Purpose

Builds, secures, and supports the automation, AI, and development capabilities used across Security Defense Technologies (SDT). This engineer will join the Defense Automation & Transformation team to expand our development and automation capacity, help design and build AI-enabled solutions including our AI Ops initiative, and help operate and mature the Kubernetes environment that hosts our shared observability and automation services.

Key Details

Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. 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.

• 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.

Education/Experience

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.

Technical Skills

• 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.
• Experience in a security, SRE, or DevSecOps environment preferred.
• CISSP is a bonus but not required.

Soft Skills

• 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.

Pay Range: $87,000.00 - $161,300.00 per year

About Centene

At Centene, we connect people to the care they need to live healthier lives - and the work you do here makes that impact real every day. 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, and 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. Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives. Benefits may be subject to program eligibility.

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.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with the LA County Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act