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.

• 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

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

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.