Senior Security Engineer: Shift-Left & Secure SDLC

Highmark Health; Nashville (TN); 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, focusing on embedding security into the software development lifecycle and reducing vulnerabilities before production.

You’ll work hands-on to design guardrails, enforce CI/CD gates, and automate security tooling across GitLab-based development, while collaborating with engineering teams to elevate secure coding practices at enterprise scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field.
• 7 years with Information Security and Systems Analysis
• 7 years with Information Security and/or Information Risk Management and/or Information Technology
• 7 years with Operating Systems and Software Administration
• 7 years developing, communicating and presenting Information Security and Risk Management concepts to varying audiences
• 7 years with technologies such as Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), firewalls, endpoint protection, web/email filtering, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), digital rights management, encryption, Security Event and Incident Management (SEIM), and virtualization platforms

Responsibilities

• Lead teams in clearly defining requirements, deliverables and timeframes. Escalate issues and make recommendations to resolve them to the appropriate audience.
• Conduct root cause analysis to identify and resolve complex problems impacting ISRM Infrastructure.
• Develop and/or deliver technical training in complex technical areas. Mentor less senior staff in the execution of their duties.
• Complete project tasks to enable the on time, within budget and scope delivery of ISRM Infrastructure projects.
• Implement, monitor, configure, and maintain security systems.
• Assure compliance to required standards, procedures, guidelines and processes.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Skills

Security engineering

Developer collaboration

Automation

CI/CD

Threat modeling

Security training

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or closely related field

Tools

GitLab Ultimate

SAST

DAST

SCA/Dependency Scanning

Container Scanning

Secret Detection

JFrog Xray

Job description

Highmark Health is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join our Enterprise Application Security team, focusing on embedding security into the software development lifecycle and reducing vulnerabilities before production.

You’ll work hands-on to design guardrails, enforce CI/CD gates, and automate security tooling across GitLab-based development, while collaborating with engineering teams to elevate secure coding practices at enterprise scale.