Senior Security Engineer: Shift-Left SDLC & AI Security

Highmark Health; Montgomery (AL); On-site; USD 103,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Highmark Health is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join our Enterprise Application Security team and play a pivotal role in shaping how security is built into our software — not bolted on after the fact. This is a high-impact, engineering role for a security professional who is passionate about preventing vulnerabilities before they happen.

You will work at the forefront of our shift-left security strategy, embedding security into every stage of the software development lifecycle—from code

Qualifications

• Candidates must be a US citizen due to contractual/access requirements.
• Experience designing secure development practices and guardrails.
• Strong collaboration with engineering teams to embed security early.
• Proven ability to lead risk-based triage and remediation of findings.

Responsibilities

• Lead shift-left security controls within CI/CD and AI-enabled workflows.
• Deploy and manage application security scanners across the enterprise.
• Develop security-as-code policies and enforcement rules.
• Partner with delivery enablement to govern AI coding assistants and tooling.

Skills

Security engineering

CI/CD security

Threat modeling

AI security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitLab security features

SAST/DAST/IA tooling

Job description

Highmark Health is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join our Enterprise Application Security team and play a pivotal role in shaping how security is built into our software — not bolted on after the fact. This is a high-impact, engineering role for a security professional who is passionate about preventing vulnerabilities before they happen.

You will work at the forefront of our shift-left security strategy, embedding security into every stage of the software development lifecycle—from code