Senior Security Engineer - Secure SDLC

Company : enGen Job Description : 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, hands‑on engineering role for a security professional who is passionate about preventing vulnerabilities before they happen.

You will be at the forefront of our shift‑left security strategy, working directly alongside our engineering teams to embed security into every stage of the software development lifecycle — from the first line of code to production deployment. If you thrive at the intersection of security engineering, developer collaboration, and automation, and you want to build something that matters at enterprise scale in one of the nation’s leading health and insurance organizations — this role is for you.

• Build & Enforce Shift‑Left Security Controls Design and implement security guardrails to catch vulnerabilities as early as possible in development (IDE, commit time, CI/CD pipelines).
• Configure and enforce enterprise‑wide pipeline security gates, ensuring code meets security standards before reaching production.
• Deploy and manage application security scanners (SAST, Dependency Scanning, Container Scanning, Secret Detection, DAST) across our Git Lab‑based development platform.
• Develop scalable security‑as‑code policies and enforcement rules for a large, distributed engineering organization.
• Drive Vulnerability Risk Reduction Lead risk‑based triage and prioritization of detected vulnerabilities, using exploitability signals like EPSS scores, Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) status, and reachability analysis.
• Establish and track remediation SLAs based on vulnerability severity and business risk, focusing on eliminating Critical and High findings pre‑production.
• Conduct root cause analysis on recurring vulnerability patterns and drive systemic improvements through tooling, standards, and developer education.
• Monitor and report on key security health metrics, including Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR), security debt trends, and pre‑ vs. post‑production detection rates.
• Automate & Optimize the Security Toolchain Architect and maintain the enterprise application security toolchain, ensuring proper integration, tuning, and delivery of high‑fidelity, actionable signals.
• Build automation workflows for vulnerability triage, escalation, assignment, and reporting to reduce manual overhead and accelerate response times.
• Continuously optimize scanner configurations to minimize false positives and maximize detection accuracy.
• Develop dashboards and reporting pipelines to provide engineering and security leadership with real‑time visibility into the organization’s security posture.
• Enable & Empower Developers Serve as a trusted, embedded security advisor to engineering teams, offering hands‑on guidance, code review support, and practical remediation recommendations.
• Design and deliver security training, workshops, and reference materials that make secure coding accessible and actionable for all developers.
• Build and grow a Security Champions program, embedding security advocates within engineering teams to extend the App Sec program’s reach.
• Create and maintain secure coding standards, design patterns, and reusable security libraries to reduce the security burden on individual developers.
• Measure, Report & Continuously Improve Define, track, and report on App Sec KPIs that demonstrate program effectiveness and drive continuous improvement.
• Conduct regular security posture reviews and present findings, trends, and recommendations to engineering and security leadership.
• Support audit and compliance activities by ensuring security controls are documented, measurable, and consistently enforced.
• Benchmark program maturity against industry frameworks like OWASP SAMM and BSIMM, and drive year‑over‑year improvement.

• Experience with Git Lab Ultimate security features including Vulnerability Reports, Security Policies, and Compliance Frameworks
• Deep proficiency with application security scanning tools — SAST,…