What are the responsibilities and job description for the Fraud Prevention & Application Security Specialist position at Auto-Owners Insurance Company?
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 are in Lansing, Grand Rapids, and Traverse City, Michigan.
Auto-Owners Insurance, a top-rated insurance carrier, is seeking a motivated individual to join our IT Division as a Fraud Prevention and Application Security specialist. Responsibilities include working with our Business Information and Security Compliance team to investigate potential security incidents and fraudulent uses of our Agency or Customer systems. In addition, the individual will assist in improving the security posture of our applications. The position requires the person to:
- Thoroughly investigate potential security incidents and their impact on our agency and customer systems
- Monitor our applications for new vulnerabilities as they are discovered
- Analyze security vulnerabilities to determine impact to our systems, perform mitigating actions, and work with development teams to prioritize addressing known issues
- Utilize monitoring tools to effectively identify cases of fraud
- Build and maintain proper security and fraud alerts within our systems
- Tailor our identity and fraud prevention tools to accurately identify and act upon suspicious activity
- Work with Business Information and Security Compliance, along with our infrastructure teams, to perform any necessary response to fraud
Desired Skills and Experience
- A four‐year college degree in Information Security, Information Security and Assurance, Information Systems, Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field is preferred. Candidates without a four‐year degree, but with several years of relevant experience, may also be considered.
- Past employment experience on one or more Application Development, IT Security, Application Security, or Fraud Prevention teams is strongly preferred
- Experience with identity and fraud prevention products, such as LexisNexis ThreatMetrix, Instant ID Q&A, or BehavioSec, is strongly preferred
- Knowledge of Java is preferred
- Experience with or willingness to learn Splunk strongly preferred
- Experience with a modern IDE is preferred
- Familiarity with OWASP and CVEs is strongly preferred
- 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.
