Lead Application Security Engineer

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Health 100 Focus | Application Security, DevSecOps, Cloud, Container & Mobile Security Leadership

CVS Health is seeking a Lead Application Security Engineer to lead application security engineering initiatives across the Health 100 portfolio and help advance secure software delivery at enterprise scale. The Lead Application Security Engineer will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for strengthening application security, improving engineering efficiency through automation, and enabling development teams to adopt secure-by-default practices throughout the software development lifecycle.Working across application, cloud, platform, and security organizations, the Lead Application Security Engineer will drive strategic security initiatives, establish scalable engineering patterns, and influence the adoption of modern security practices that improve risk reduction, release readiness, and overall technology resilience.

The Lead Application Security Engineer will partner closely with engineering teams to implement enterprise security capabilities, accelerate adoption of DevSecOps practices, and strengthen security outcomes across a high-priority application portfolio.

This position offers the opportunity to influence enterprise-wide application security and DevSecOps strategy, shape modern security engineering practices, and deliver measurable business and security outcomes across one of CVS Health's most strategic application portfolios. The Lead Application Security Engineer will help define scalable security patterns, strengthen software delivery capabilities, and contribute to the future of secure healthcare technology at enterprise scale.

The Lead Application Security Engineer will play a key role in advancing cloud, container, and mobile application security capabilities through the implementation of modern security platforms, including cloud security posture management (CSPM), cloud workload protection, cloud security scanning, container security scanning, and mobile application security testing solutions. This role will help drive enterprise adoption of security platforms such as Wiz to improve visibility, vulnerability management, risk reduction, and security coverage across cloud-native environments.

• Lead application security onboarding, secure-by-default implementation patterns, release-readiness activities, and adoption of secure software development and DevSecOps practices across the Health 100 portfolio.
• Drive security platform implementations, tooling modernization efforts, configuration standardization, and enterprise adoption of scalable security solutions.
• Design and implement automated security controls, testing capabilities, policy enforcement mechanisms, and self-service security solutions within software delivery pipelines.
• Lead vulnerability remediation, software supply chain security, cloud security, container security, and mobile application security initiatives, including cloud security posture management (CSPM), cloud workload protection, cloud security scanning, container security scanning, mobile application security testing, and enterprise risk reduction efforts leveraging platforms such as Wiz and other enterprise security technologies.
• Serve as a senior technical leader by providing architecture guidance, mentoring engineers, communicating security outcomes to leadership, and establishing security engineering standards that enable consistent adoption across teams.

• 7+ years of experience in application security engineering, DevSecOps, cloud security, platform security, or software engineering within complex enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise implementing security controls throughout modern software delivery pipelines, including application security testing, cloud security, container security, mobile application security, Infrastructure-as-Code security, and automated security enforcement practices.
• Proven success leading enterprise security implementations, application security platform migrations, and large-scale security modernization initiatives.
• Strong technical knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code, Security-as-Code, and secure software development methodologies.
• Hands-on proficiency in modern programming and scripting languages, combined with demonstrated capability in vulnerability management, software supply chain security, and enterprise risk reduction across modern application environments.

• Hands-on experience with application security, cloud security, and container security platforms such as Wiz, Snyk, Checkmarx, Gitleaks, Data Theorem, MobSF, and SBOM tooling, including cloud security posture management (CSPM), cloud security scanning, cloud workload protection, container security scanning, and mobile application security testing capabilities.
• Background supporting large-scale application portfolios, highly regulated environments, or complex multi-team technology organizations.
• Experience securing cloud-native data platforms and analytics environments, including Snowflake and related technologies.
• Familiarity with healthcare, privacy, and security frameworks including HIPAA, HITRUST, PCI DSS, NIST, GDPR, and CCPA.
• Ability to communicate technical security strategy, implementation outcomes, and risk posture to senior engineering, security, and business leaders.

Bachelor's degree from an accredited university or equivalent work experience (High School Diploma/GED plus 4 years of relevant experience).

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Pay Range

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This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.  This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. 
 

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