Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
AbbottAbout the role
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
The Opportunity
This Senior Cybersecurity Engineer position can work remotely within the U.S.
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer performs all procedures necessary to ensure the safety of information systems assets and to protect systems from intentional or inadvertent access or destruction. Participate in technical and non-technical projects requiring information security oversight and to ensure policies, procedures and standards are met. Serve as an additional security team member, aiding in incident response (IR). Responsible for defining improvements to the program, and implementing new technologies, tools, metrics, and standards.
What You’ll Work On
Develop and maintain secure, resilient enterprise-grade cloud processes in tandem with architects and system engineers.
Secure business applications and computing environments across public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructures.
Maintain a consistent, secure environment using configuration management solutions (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.). Conduct rigorous oversight of security systems and security configuration administration to reduce risk to enterprise systems and accounts.
Deploy strong identity and access management (IDAM) controls across applications and computing environments.
Assist with development, maintenance and utilization of scripts (e.g., Python, Ruby, etc.) to support custom extract, transform load (ETL) tools with a security focus for data flow.
Attend regular technical project and implementation meetings, and serve as the security consultant to help guide secure application and infrastructure configurations.
Actively monitor, assess and recommend tactical and strategic initiatives based on new and emerging threats posing risk to cloud computing environments.
Manage remediation efforts after security assessment findings outline weaknesses requiring attention.
Document, formulate and enforce areas of security improvement that balance risk with business operations and do not diminish efficiencies or innovation.
Stay apprised of current and proposed security changes impacting regulatory, privacy and security industry best practice guidance. Apply learned knowledge across key lines of business, including products, practices and procedures.
Act as a key figure in incident response to track occurrence and resolution, with strict documentation and reporting as well as engagement with security operations and incident response teams.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
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