Company Description
Why Wellmark: We are a mutual insurance company owned by our policy holders across Iowa and South Dakota, and we’ve built our reputation on over 80 years’ worth of trust. We are not motivated by profits. We are motivated by the well-being of our friends, family, and neighbors–our members. If you’re passionate about joining an organization working hard to put its members first, to provide best-in-class service, and one that is committed to sustainability and innovation, consider applying today!
Why Wellmark Technology? Wellmark is building innovative, modern solutions using cutting edge technology. We are driving organizational transformation and business strategy by empowering our technology team to innovate new and elegant solutions to enhance the customer experience. Together, we are leaning into the future, owning the outcome, and driving organizational change to transform how we work.
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced information security engineer. As a security engineer you will help architect, deploy, and operate a secure application infrastructure that aligns with business needs. Responsible for supporting operational innovation and providing security direction to the business to elevate the company’s security posture. An advanced role, security engineer helps deliver applications at scale and with resiliency to support business initiatives. Expected to possess troubleshooting skills, and be knowledgeable about architecture, engineering and design principles and best practices. The security engineer should be adept at dealing with disparate applications and data systems to maintain the level of rigor required to adhere to business direction. Oversee Engineering areas of vulnerability scanning, certificate management, password policy management, data analysis of security monitoring outputs, coordination of remediation vulnerabilities and other daily security and compliance efforts.
Qualifications
Required:
Preferred:
Additional Information
a. Build and maintain the availability of the identity access platforms. Build and maintain the vulnerability threat and scanning tools. Evaluate applications in development for potential vulnerabilities to identify security flaws before they are released to production.
b. Secure business applications and computing environments across public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructures.
c. Review and analyze vulnerability data to identify security risks to the organization's network, infrastructure, and applications. Design, implement and improve detection and prevention of vulnerabilities.
d. Provide expertise and best practices for implementing cloud security and secured code detection and prevention.
e. Conduct rigorous oversight of security systems and security configuration administration to reduce risk to enterprise systems and accounts.
f. Oversee the management and remediation of identified security flaws within development platforms.
g. Build and maintain monitoring, auditing, and reporting frameworks that produce evidence that support security and compliance needs.
h. Actively monitor, assess and recommend tactical and strategic initiatives based on new and emerging threats posing risk to cloud computing environments.
i. Develop processes that produce evidence that will support security and compliance requirements.
j. Track security issues in the same work tracking systems leveraged by the development and operations teams to ensure seamless communication and resolution of issues.
k. Manage remediation efforts after security assessment findings outline weaknesses requiring attention.
l. Protect business applications in compliance with privacy, security, business resiliency and compliance frameworks as defined in corporate policies.
m. Other duties as assigned
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Eligible: You will have the flexibility to work where you are most productive. This position is eligible to work fully remote. Depending on your location, you may still have the option to come into a Wellmark office if you wish to. Your leader may ask you to come into the office occasionally for specific meetings or other ‘moments that matter’ as well.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
The policy of Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield is to recruit, hire, train and promote individuals in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.
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