Senior Manager, Firewall Policy Engineering

Centene Corporation; Kansas City (MO); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 191,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Health insurance

401K plans

Stock options

Tuition reimbursement

Paid time off

Remote options

Job summary

Centene Corporation invites applications for a Manager, Firewall Policy Engineering to lead the firewall security engineering team and safeguard enterprise networks. The role focuses on engineering, implementation, and operations of firewall controls across the organization, ensuring secure and sustainable connectivity for business needs.

The candidate will partner with senior engineers and capability stewards for technical leadership, drive continuous improvement, and balance operational demand

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of related experience.
• Equivalent experience acquired through accomplishments of applicable knowledge, duties, scope and skill reflective of the level of this position.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of firewall security engineers.
• Establish priorities, engineering objectives, and operational work plans.
• Conduct performance management, career development, coaching, and mentoring.
• Develop succession depth and reduce key-person dependencies.
• Build an environment where engineers have clear ownership and appropriate decision authority.
• Lead engineering execution for enterprise firewall security capabilities.
• Ensure firewall changes and security controls are implemented consistently and reliably.
• Establish repeatable engineering practices for firewall policy implementation and lifecycle management.
• Balance operational demand, strategic initiatives, technical debt, and capability advancement.
• Ensure engineering work transitions cleanly into sustainable operational support.
• Firewall Policy Engineering.
• Firewall Rule Implementation.
• Firewall Rule Lifecycle Management.
• Network Segmentation Controls.
• Security Policy Standards.
• Rule Optimization and Cleanup.
• Policy Recertification Support.
• Firewall Automation and Orchestration.
• Security Control Validation.
• Firewall Change Engineering.
• Policy Exception Management.
• Cloud and Hybrid Firewall Security Controls.
• Identify opportunities to reduce repetitive and manual engineering activities.
• Advance policy automation, orchestration, and standardized workflows where appropriate.
• Establish measurable engineering processes and control validation.
• Reduce unnecessary complexity and technical debt within firewall policies.
• Improve visibility into engineering workload, delivery, policy health, and control effectiveness.
• Lead execution of firewall security engineering projects and strategic initiatives.
• Align engineering capacity to organizational priorities.
• Manage project dependencies, resource constraints, and delivery risks.
• Partner with application, network, cloud, infrastructure, architecture, and cybersecurity teams.
• Ensure initiatives produce measurable security and business outcomes.
• Ensure firewall security standards and engineering practices are consistently applied.
• Identify and escalate material security risks and exceptions.
• Support audit, compliance, and control validation activities.
• Maintain appropriate documentation, standards, procedures, and engineering practices.
• Ensure risks associated with firewall policy decisions are visible to appropriate decision-makers.
• Partner with firewall technology vendors and service providers.
• Hold external providers accountable for contracted engineering and support responsibilities.
• Evaluate vendor capabilities that can improve engineering efficiency, automation, and policy management.
• Ensure external resources augment internal capability rather than creating unnecessary dependencies.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Skills

Leadership

Security engineering

Firewall security

Stakeholder management

Automation

Risk-based decisions

Education

Bachelor's degree

5+ years experience

Job description

Centene Corporation invites applications for a Manager, Firewall Policy Engineering to lead the firewall security engineering team and safeguard enterprise networks. The role focuses on engineering, implementation, and operations of firewall controls across the organization, ensuring secure and sustainable connectivity for business needs.

The candidate will partner with senior engineers and capability stewards for technical leadership, drive continuous improvement, and balance operational demand