Manager, Endpoint Security Engineering

Centene Corporation•Remote-MO, MO

1d•$102,900 - $190,500

About The Position

The Endpoint Security Engineering Manager provides operational leadership, delivery execution, workforce management, and capability advancement for the organization’s endpoint security capabilities. This leader ensures the enterprise endpoint security platform remains effective, scalable, measurable, and aligned with business risk-reduction objectives. The manager oversees the engineering team responsible for endpoint protection technologies, endpoint security policy implementation, platform health, operational readiness, and continuous improvement. The manager is accountable for delivery and team performance, partnering with senior engineers and capability stewards for technical leadership and architectural direction. The role calls for a thoughtful, people-centered leader who listens well, considers different perspectives, and applies sound judgment to complex technical and organizational decisions. Candidates should have direct engineering experience with enterprise endpoint security, endpoint management, or security enforcement platforms, including hands-on experience with some core endpoint technologies. Additional experience with certain related technologies is preferred. The position requires authorization to work in the United States without current or future employment-based visa sponsorship. The role also manages endpoint security programs and projects, governance and risk activities, and relationships with endpoint security vendors and service providers. Other duties may be assigned, and the employee must comply with applicable policies and standards.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and at least 5 years of related experience, or equivalent experience acquired through applicable knowledge, duties, scope, and skill.
Direct engineering experience with enterprise endpoint security, endpoint management, or security enforcement platforms.
Hands-on experience with at least some of the following: Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike, Trend Micro Cloud One, Microsoft Intune, Tanium Enforce, and Absolute.
Strong people leadership and team development skills.
Execution-focused management approach and ability to balance operational support with strategic improvements.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Experience managing multiple concurrent security initiatives.
Risk-based decision-making capability.
Ability to translate technical issues into business-impact discussions.
Prior people-management experience with a record of strengthening team effectiveness, engagement, and development.
Demonstrated success improving the reliability, maturity, or effectiveness of technologies and services supported by the team.
Ability to lead and manage others, collaborate, build teams, coach, and deliver constructive feedback.
Ability to instill commitment to organizational goals, communicate and make recommendations to upper management, manage conflict, develop and deliver presentations, and negotiate.
Authorization to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Armis, Nexthink, Dynatrace, or Microsoft Entra.
Endpoint security engineering or operations experience.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of endpoint security engineers.
Establish priorities, sprint objectives, and operational work plans.
Conduct performance evaluations and provide career development, coaching, and mentoring.
Develop succession plans and reduce key-person dependency risks.
Build a sustainable operating model that distributes ownership across the team.
Foster a respectful, inclusive team environment and make well-reasoned decisions.
Ensure reliable operation of endpoint security platforms and services.
Maintain operational readiness, support models, escalation paths, and runbooks.
Manage engineering backlogs and technical debt initiatives.
Monitor service health, platform coverage, policy effectiveness, and operational metrics.
Drive consistent execution of security engineering processes.
Advance endpoint security capabilities across prevention, detection, visibility, and control enforcement.
Partner with Capability Stewards to develop multi-year capability roadmaps.
Prioritize initiatives based on risk reduction, operational efficiency, and business value.
Ensure new capabilities transition successfully into production operations.
Provide operational leadership for endpoint detection and response, malware prevention and antivirus, attack surface reduction, endpoint security policy management, endpoint security telemetry, device compliance and coverage reporting, security tool health monitoring, and endpoint security feature adoption.
Manage execution of endpoint security projects and strategic initiatives.
Coordinate resources, timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder communication.
Partner with infrastructure, workplace technology, architecture, and security operations teams.
Ensure projects achieve measurable business and security outcomes.
Track operational risks and control effectiveness.
Escalate issues requiring risk acceptance or executive decisions.
Support audit, compliance, and control validation activities.
Maintain documented standards, procedures, and engineering practices.
Manage relationships with endpoint security vendors and service providers.
Hold vendors accountable to contracted deliverables and service levels.
Review vendor performance metrics, roadmaps, and support effectiveness.
Drive continuous improvement through vendor partnerships.
Perform other duties as assigned and comply with all policies and standards.