Application Security Engineer

A career at Auto-Owners is challenging and rewarding.  Our group of caring associates create financial security by helping individuals and businesses make a new start when a loss occurs.

Job Description

We offer a merit-based work-from-home program based on job responsibilities. After initial training in-person, this specific role could have the flexibility to work from home up to 3 days per week.

Please note that we are not currently hiring fully remote positions. All candidates must have the ability to work in one of our tech offices. Our tech offices for this role are in Lansing, and Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Auto-Owners Insurance, a top-rated insurance carrier, is seeking a motivated individual to join our IT Division as an Application Security specialist. Responsibilities include working with our Application Security team to help define security policy, and working with various development teams across the division to help improve the security posture of our applications. The position requires the person to:

• Analyze security vulnerabilities to determine impact to our systems, and work with development teams to prioritize addressing known issues
• Educate development teams on best practices regarding application security
• Monitor our applications for new vulnerabilities as they are discovered
• Communicate status and progress of our application security posture to management
• Consult with developers, architects, project leaders, and management to resolve problems and suggest alternatives

Desired Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, a related field, or equivalent experience is required
• Past employment experience on one or more application development teams is strongly preferred
• Knowledge of Java and RESTful services is strongly preferred
• Experience with or willingness to learn Splunk strongly preferred
• Experience with a modern IDE is strongly preferred
• Experience with our current security tools is preferred
• Familiarity with OWASP and CVEs is preferred
• Enthusiasm for driving improvement by finding and implementing solutions to new challenges
• Must be able to learn and effectively use tools and software development techniques as practiced, acquired, or adopted within the IT Division

Benefits

Auto-Owners offers a wide range of career opportunities, and we are seeking talent that will help us continue our long tradition of success. We offer a friendly work environment, structured training program, employee mentoring and an excellent compensation/benefits package. Along with a competitive base salary, matched 401(k), fully-funded pension plan (once vested), and bonus programs, Auto-Owners also provides generous paid time off including holidays, vacation days, personal time, and sick leave. If you're looking to do rewarding work alongside great people, Auto-Owners is the place for you!

Equal Employment Opportunity

Auto-Owners Insurance is an equal opportunity employer. The Company hires, transfers, and promotes on the basis of ability, without consideration of disability, age, sex, race, color, religion, height, weight, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin, or any factor contrary to federal, state or local law.

*Please note that the ability to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship is a requirement.