Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

As a global leader in diabetes care, we’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing 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 works out of Alameda, CA, or Remote in the US.

This group works with amazing devices. We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

The person hired in this role will ensure the safety of information systems assets and to protect systems from intentional or inadvertent access or destruction.  They will also participate in technical and non-technical projects requiring information security oversight and to ensure policies, procedures and standards are met.  In addition, they will serve as an additional security team member, aiding in incident response (IR). 

What You’ll Work On

• Develop and maintain secure, resilient enterprise-grade cloud processes in tandem with architects and system engineers.

• Responsible for defining improvements to the program, and implementing new technologies, tools, metrics, and standards.

• 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, wit