Principal Threat Detection Engineer (Remote)

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn and Tik Tok.

Job Description

The Principal Threat Detection Engineer role is an advanced technical role focused on extending AbbVie’s threat detection and monitoring services to include web applications. This role will serve as a technical subject matter expert on the cyber threat landscape, attacker tactics and techniques and serve as the lead on threat detection content development lifecycle.  This role will also coach junior team members, engage in advanced data analysis, work closely with the Incident Response teams (customer) and application owners. This role will fulfill an expert leadership role within engineering and provide a clear career path to more management-level opportunities.  

This position can be located virtually anywhere in the U.S.

Responsibilities:  

• Providing technical leadership and coordinating defensive toolset engineering, including content creation, tuning, expansion of defensive platforms, and implementation of new controls. 
• Maintaining a solid command of modern defensive cybersecurity controls functionality and limitations, including the latest defensive technologies and techniques. 
• Contributing to program development and expansion initiatives by providing input into strategic direction based on subject matter expertise and an advanced understanding of evolving threats. 
• Serving as a subject matter expert across multiple security domains and providing recommendations for both tactical and strategic program enhancements. 
• Collaborating with specialists and analysts to actively contribute to risk reduction efforts, including but not limited to assessments and in-depth research and analysis of threats. 
• Providing recomm