Senior Security Engineer

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

POSITION SUMMARY

CVS Health offers the opportunity to design, build, and operate a world-class Purple Team capability—creating and running a test-execution platform that continuously validates and strengthens defensive controls. You will enable safe, scalable adversary emulation linked to detection and response metrics, blending offensive tradecraft, automation, and reliability engineering to deliver a production-ready system that drives measurable cyber-resilience improvements. The position also provides opportunities to leverage AI for workflow automation.

What we expect of you

Help maintain and evolve a secure, scalable adversary-emulation platform for campaign scheduling, agent orchestration, payload execution, and results cataloging.

Review commercial alternatives for Purple Team exercises using custom runners or commercial tools (e.g., Cymulate, Picus).

Provision static or ephemeral test environments via Terraform / Kubernetes across cloud and on-prem infrastructure.

Develop continuous adversarial threat-simulation tests for defensive control validation and resiliency assessment.

Generate high-fidelity telemetry for EDR, SIEM, and SOAR to measure detection coverage, latency, and control effectiveness.

Research detection brittleness, design mutation / variant tests, and enhance test cases to strengthen detection logic.

Manage work intake pipeline and ensure timely closure of ticketed requests within SLA.

Produce ATT&CK-mapped artifacts, dashboards, and coverage metrics for Detection Engineering and leadership.

Enforce platform security through RBAC, secrets management, audit logging, and execution safety controls.

Collaborate with CTI, Threat Hunt, and SOC teams to evolve test cases based on real-world threats and gaps.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

5+ years of experience in the offensive security testing space

2+ years in security automation, platform engineering, or DevSecOps.

2+ years of strong automation skills using GitHub runners and JIRA.

1+ years of experience designing tests for detection robustness and mitigating brittleness.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Excellent working knowledge about cloud security in relation to the major CSPs.

Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, etc.).

Deep knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and adversary-emulation frameworks.

Understanding of detection architectures (EDR, SIEM, SOAR) and telemetry generation.

Ability to build secure, observable, fault-tolerant services.

Experience automating adversary simulation or Purple Team workflows.

Hands-on with IaC (Terraform / CloudFormation) and containerization (Docker / Kubernetes).

Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, CAPEC, and threat-informed defense methodologies.

Integration experience with ServiceNow, Jira, or enterprise workflow systems.

Exposure to graph visualization tools and automated reporting / dashboard creation.

Knowledge of tools like Swimlane, DataBricks, Archer, Slack, MS O365.

Experience with BAS tools like Cymulate and Picks among others.

Ability to manage automation request pipelines and prioritize effectively.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent experience).

Strong communication and collaboration skills.

EDUCATION

Bachelor degree from accredited university or equivalent work experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience).

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose : Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex / gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities

Anticipated Weekly Hours

40

Time Type

Full time

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is :

$111,240.00 - $222,480.00

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.

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include :

Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan .

No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.

Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

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We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on : 12 / 31 / 2025

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.

We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex / gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.