Cybersecurity Threat Response Engineer

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As a Cybersecurity Threat Response Engineer, you will be a member of the Threat Intelligence and Response Team. In a world that depends on data, in the role you will be responsible for protecting data, identifying potential threats, and conducting investigations into cyber threats. You will respond to cyber security incidents by using critical thinking skills and forensic analysis to ensure that cyber security threats are proactively stopped from the Premera network. These threats include actors from nation states, cyber-criminal organizations, and insider threats. If you’re motivated to find the threat in the haystack and are passionate about making healthcare safer, this is the role for you.

This is a hybrid position located on our campus in Mountlake Terrace, WA, with onsite days required. You must live in Washington State to be eligible for this position. This position also has an on-call rotation with a dedicated team to support the mission to protect Premera and its data.

What you’ll do:

• As a responder, you will be the ‘Tip of the Spear’ to react to alerts and use your innate hunting and analysis skills to conduct investigations into security threats.

• Protect Premera data from threat actors looking to gain access to sensitive personal and financial data in a structured team environment.

• Respond and investigate numerous attacks launched daily against Premera.

• Personally engineer solutions that will prevent damaging cyber threats that cost organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

• Exhibit a passion and tenacity about hunting and preventing cyber threats.

What you’ll bring:

*This position is open to Levels II and III*

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems or Business Administration or (4) years of work experience.

• (3) years of experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting networked computer systems, which must include (2) years of experience with secure network and systems architecture, design and implementation, intrusion detection, defense and incident response, security configuration management, access controls design and implementation, and security policy and standards development. (Required for Level II)

• (5) years of experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting networked computer systems, which must include (3) years of experience with secure network and systems architecture, design and implementation, intrusion detection, defense and incident response, security configuration management, access controls design and implementation, and security policy and standards development. (Required for Level III)

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous cybersecurity incident response experience.

• Demonstrated understanding of health plan operations and appli