• Evaluates enterprise solutions with respect to adhering to security controls and validates security risks upon mitigation.
• Validates cloud security standards as per industry best practices.
• Performs analysis of the current cloud security architecture to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.
• Audits security and operational configurations including system vulnerabilities.
• Proactively monitors & validates security incoming alerts and vulnerabilities.
• Creates security documents, design standard operating procedures, report findings, and track them to closure by working with relevant parties and stakeholders.
• Undertakes initiatives to review and generate recommendations for cloud workload security configurations.
• This role will evaluate the design and effectiveness of cloud security controls throughout the business cycle and will help identify performance improvement opportunities.
• Leads audits/assessments including assessment plan preparation, review of documentation and evidence, evaluation of procedures, and application team interviews.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science).
• 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:

• One or more of the following skills are desired:
• Experience with AWS and Azure Cloud Environments
• Experience with IT Assessments, Audits, and Vulnerability Reports
• Experience with IT Security Controls for Cloud environments
• Experience with various SIEM, EDR, and GRC tools such as MS Defender, Tenable Nessus, Prisma, and RSA Archer
• Experience with Splunk is helpful
• Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS); Platform as a Service (PaaS); Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Knowledge of Other: Operational knowledge of cloud native and third-party security solutions
• Jira and Confluence
• Experience with Automation

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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Security – Specialty or Azure Security Engineer Associate or Professional Cloud Security Engineer preferred
• CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional preferred

Pay Range: $83,600.00 - $155,000.00 per year. 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. Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives.

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.