Platform Engineer - GitHub Advanced Security at Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield

Why Wellmark: We are a mutual insurance company owned by our policy holders across Iowa and South Dakota, and we’ve built our reputation on over 80 years’ worth of trust. We are not motivated by profits. We are motivated by the well-being of our friends, family, and neighbors–our members. If you’re passionate about joining an organization working hard to put its members first, to provide best-in-class service, and one that is committed to sustainability and innovation, consider applying today!

Why Wellmark Technology? Wellmark is building innovative, modern solutions using cutting edge technology. We are driving organizational transformation and business strategy by empowering our technology team to innovate new and elegant solutions to enhance the customer experience. Together, we are leaning into the future, owning the outcome, and driving organizational change to transform how we work.

Job Description

As a Platform/Staff Security Engineer, your role is to bridge the gap between security standards, developer velocity, and the emerging world of AI-assisted engineering. By championing the GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) ecosystem and Copilot’s autonomous agent capabilities, you will empower our engineering community to deliver resilient software through seamless automation, custom AI guardrails, and collaborative mentorship.

What You Will Do:

• Ecosystem Optimization: Lead the strategic evolution of the GitHub Advanced Security environment and GitHub Copilot configuration, ensuring AI and security tools are tuned for maximum accuracy and minimal developer friction.
• Secure AI Orchestration: Design and govern the use of Copilot autonomous agents (e.g., Copilot coding agents), ensuring that AI-generated code and pull requests meet enterprise security and quality standards before they reach human review.
• Seamless Guardrails: Design and deploy automated scanning (CodeQL, Secrets, and Dependencies) that integrates natively into CI/CD workflows, leveraging AI-driven autofix capabilities to accelerate remediation.
• Technical Advocacy: Act as a high-level partner for development teams, helping them navigate complex security findings and providing the technical clarity needed to securely adopt agentic workflows.
• Pattern Recognition & AI Guidance: Identify recurring security trends and develop custom repository instructions to guide Copilot agents toward Wellmark’s specific coding standards and security patterns.
• Risk Intelligence: Establish the metrics required to move our security posture from reactive to proactive, monitoring the impact of AI-assisted development on code quality and security debt.
  
  

Qualifications

Preferred:

• Technical Mastery: Proven expertise in the GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) suite (CodeQL, Secret Scanning, Dependabot).
• Automation Fluency: Deep experience building CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) with a focus on automated security gates and agentic task delegation
• Influence: Demonstrated ability to drive security and AI adoption across multiple teams through influence and collaboration rather than direct authority.
• AI Implementation: Hands-on experience configuring and scaling GitHub Copilot at an enterprise level, including experience with Copilot Chat, Edits, or Agent mode.
  
  

Required:

• Bachelor's Degree or direct and applicable work experience
• Minimum 7 years of experience to include any combination of the following:
• Development Experience: (Ex: Angular 2 (or newer), NodeJS (or newer), TypeScript, C#, .NET, Java, SQL)
• Providing innovative solutions to complex issues
• Minimum 4 years of experience in IT infrastructure, architecture design, operations
• Proven ability to adapt when experiencing major changes in work tasks or work environment.
• Informal leadership experience typically gained through leading projects.
• Demonstrated experience coaching/mentoring others by providing guidance and feedback to help an employee or groups of employees strengthen their knowledge and skills to accomplish a task or solve a problem
• Proven experience with designing technical architecture and keeping abreast of existing and emerging technologies.
• Experiencing consulting with stakeholders to understand needs with the intention of providing advice and counsel. Also interacting appropriately with others to guide individuals or groups to accomplish work, reach consensus or take action.
• Demonstrated experience in problem solving/troubleshooting skills (conceptual, technical, IT) - Breaks down problems and identifies all of their facets, including hidden or tricky aspects, to find root-cause of problems. Generates a range of solutions and courses of action with benefits, costs, and risks associated with each. Probes appropriate sources for answers, and thinks ‘outside the box’ to find options. Tests proposed solutions against the reality of likely effects before going forward.
• Demonstrated communication skills: verbal and written - Articulate; Communicates information/concepts clearly and concisely to individuals or groups; delivers presentations suited to the characteristics and needs of the stakeholders/audience. Clearly and concisely conveys written information orally or in writing to individuals or groups to ensure that they understand the information and the message. Listens and responds appropriately to others.
  
  

Additional Information

• Lead the technical designs for highly integrated complex application platforms to optimize security, information leverage and re-use, integration, performance, and availability and ensure solutions developed adhere and aligns to the architecture standards. Fulfill service level agreements and ensure solutions remains current with industry best practices, technologies and with Wellmark’s standards.
• Consult with Solution Architects and project teams in the creation & documentation of design deliverables for application platforms. Collaborate with Solution and Lead Architects to design and implement effective technology solutions, while using innovative business and technology processes to identify and implement improvement initiatives, eliminate redundancies and maximizes re-use of applications.
• May oversee and lead planning, developing and estimating of technical solutions. When appropriate, collaborate and work with other technical teams to better provide subject matter expertise and insights.
• Collaborate with Lead Architect for assigned domain, business systems analyst and other stakeholders to provide insight/ direction regarding process improvements.
• Consults with business stakeholders regarding subject matter knowledge related to technical planning in order to ensure architectures are developed in alignment with business expectations.
• Oversee, review and provide technical guidance on the design efforts of Wellmark’s supported solutions; including but not limited to the evaluation of vendors during the selection process, integrating with new vendors, design, implementation and administration.
• Will adhere and are held accountable for the support and influence of Wellmark’s architecture governance standards and technical standards. Provide design specifications to governing boards for proper approvals. Provides guidance for regarding IT policies, security and infrastructure.
• Will provide training and mentorship of others regarding technical design and solution implementation; including review and quality assurance.
• Build strong relationships and business acumen with the business to ensure technical designs are aligned with business needs. Provide exceptional customer service and solutions.
• Develops and applies industry best practice technology, design and methodology approaches to design platform specific technical designs. Researches and recommends new emerging technologies, techniques and tools that will add value to the organization.
• Other duties as assigned.
  
  

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

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