Senior Cybersecurity Specialist - Internal Risk

Medtronic plc; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Medtronic plc, a global leader in healthcare technology, seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Information Assurance Analyst in Hyderabad, India. You will lead risk assessments, evaluate controls, and drive risk-based decisions across IT, security, legal, and product teams.

You will implement frameworks such as NIST CSF, RMF, and ISO standards, maintain audit-ready risk records, and collaborate to protect regulated data under HIPAA, GDPR, and other standards.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of IT experience with a degree in engineering or related field.
• 7+ years in cybersecurity GRC, or audit in healthcare/medical device industry.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory requirements (HIPAA, NIST, ISO 27001, GDPR).

Responsibilities

• Leads internal cybersecurity risk assessments from intake to closure.
• Evaluates risk using qualitative, semi-quantitative, and quantitative methods.
• Reviews security architecture, data flows, and control narratives.
• Maintains audit-ready risk records with evidence and mappings.
• Collaborates across IT, legal, compliance, and product security to mitigate risk.

Skills

Cybersecurity GRC

Risk management

NIST CSF / RMF

Regulatory compliance

HIPAA familiarity

Security architecture reviews

Risk assessment

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering / MCA / MSc

Tools

ServiceNow

Archer

OneTrust

Job description

Careers that change lives start here. Medtronic is a global leader in healthcare technology with a Mission to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life. Our 95,000 employees work across more than 150 countries to put patients first - developing innovative medical technologies that improve the lives of 72+ million patients each year. Your unique talents will help shape the future of healthcare while building a career grounded in purpose, growth, and impact.

A Day in the Life We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cybersecurity Information Assurance Analyst to join our cybersecurity team. In this role, you will be responsible for the identification, assessment, and mitigation of cybersecurity risks across the organization. As a senior member of the team, you will provide expertise in risk management, compliance, and security strategy, while also playing a key role in driving initiatives to ensure the protection of sensitive data, particularly in a highly regulated healthcare environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate and enhance our cybersecurity posture, ensuring adherence to relevant regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, and other industry standards.

Responsibilities

• Leads internal cybersecurity risk assessments from intake and scoping through analysis, treatment, acceptance or escalation, monitoring, reassessment, and closure.
• Identifies and documents risk scenarios involving assets, business processes, data, systems, services, suppliers, threats, vulnerabilities, control weaknesses, dependencies, and potential consequences.
• Evaluates inherent and residual risk using defensible qualitative, semi-quantitative, and quantitative methods, including FAIR or comparable cyber-risk quantification when appropriate.
• Reviews security architecture, data flows, system descriptions, technical designs, control narratives, audit reports, penetration-test results, vulnerability information, incident history, and third-party assurance evidence.
• Assesses security control design and operating effectiveness across identity and access management, vulnerability management, secure configuration, logging and monitoring, encryption, backup and recovery, software development, cloud security, data protection, incident response, and resilience.
• Maintains accurate, complete, and audit-ready risk records, including risk statements, evidence, scoring rationale, control mappings, treatment plans, accountable owners, milestones, decisions, and next-review dates.
• Facilitates risk-owner decisions, documents exceptions and compensating controls, and escalates material, high, critical, systemic, or aggregating risks through the GRC governance process.
• Creates and tracks Risk Treatments/Issues and remediation tasks and coordinates related intake, vulnerability, asset, incident, and issue data across enterprise systems.
• Monitors changes in threats, vulnerabilities, incidents, control performance, technology, business context, M&A activity, and regulatory requirements that may trigger reassessment.
• Develops risk metrics and reporting for risk owners, GRC leadership, executive stakeholders, governance forums, auditors, and regulators.
• Applies NIST CSF 2.0, NIST RMF, NIST SP 800-30, ISO/IEC 27005, ISO 31000, FAIR, COBIT, COSO ERM, and comparable methods to support risk-based decision-making.
• Improves GRC processes through standardized processes, reusable evidence, control mappings, automation, workflow design, integrations, data-quality practices, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with teams across various departments, including IT, legal, compliance, and product security, to identify, assess, and mitigate cybersecurity risks across a broad range of products and services, ensuring security is integrated throughout the entire product lifecycle and operational processes.

Required Knowledge and Experience

• 7+ years of IT experience with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, MCA, or MSc.
• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity GRC (Governance, Risk, & Compliance), or external/internal audit, preferably within the medical device or healthcare industry.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory requirements, risk management, and industry best practices (e.g., HIPAA, NIST, ISO 27001, GDPR, etc.)

Risk Management Experience

• At least 5 years of experience executing key risk management activities, including conducting risk assessments using various quantitative and qualitative methodologies, such as the FAIR model (Factor Analysis of Information Risk), ensuring a deep understanding of risk analysis methodologies.
• At least 3 years of active participation in the design and implementation of at least 2 comprehensive risk management programs (e.g., risk assessments, regulatory assessments) within a large, complex organization, including hands-on experience with program execution and improvement.
• Practical experience with risk identification, analysis, evaluation, treatment, acceptance or escalation, monitoring, reporting, and reassessment.
• Proven expertise in process design and improvement related to risk management frameworks and methodologies, ensuring effective risk mitigation strategies are incorporated into operational processes.
• Experience conducting NIST risk assessments (e.g., NIST CSF, NIST 800-53) and applying their standards and recommendations to improve organizational cybersecurity postures.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory changes and trends impacting IT risk assessments, including compliance requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and others, ensuring risk management strategies align with the latest regulatory standards.
• Knowledge of Operational Technology (OT) risk management is a plus, with the ability to assess risks related to OT environments and integrate them into overall IT risk strategies.
• Minimum 3 years of experience evaluating technical design documents for systems or environments to assess associated risks, including reviewing architectural, infrastructure, and application designs for security and operational risk vulnerabilities.
• Experience maintaining risk registers and managing remediation, issues, exceptions, risk acceptance, and treatment plans.

Preferred Skills & Competencies

• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, presentation, and executive-communication skills, including the ability to explain complex cyber risk in business terms.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, challenge constructively, manage competing priorities, and collaborate across global, cross-functional teams.
• Ability to think critically and strategically about risk management and how technology, process improvements, and automation can help the organization proactively address cybersecurity risks.
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to communicate complex risk management concepts clearly to executive-level audiences, translating technical details into actionable insights for senior leadership.

Technical Expertise

• Experience with GRC tools such as ServiceNow, Archer, LogicGate, OneTrust, or comparable GRC platforms.
• Strong understanding of technical infrastructure, including networks, cloud environments, endpoints, and medical device systems.
• Experience with system integration and data flow analysis within GRC tools, ideally leveraging APIs and other automation technologies to improve operational efficiencies.

Certifications

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
• Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC).
• Certified Information Security Auditor (CISA).

Physical Job Requirements The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package. This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).

We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions. Our Mission - to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life - unites a global team of 95,000+ passionate people. We are engineers at heart- putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary. We change lives. Each team member, each day, helps to improve and redefine how the world treats the most pressing health conditions, from heart disease to diabetes. Our industry leadership comes from the passion and ingenuity of our people. That's who we are. Working alongside one another, we use science, medicine, and a profound understanding of the human body to build extraordinary technologies that can transform lives. We build extraordinary solutions as one team. With one Medtronic Mindset defining how we work. Speed and decisiveness run through our DNA. Diverse perspectives inspire our bold answers to any challenge that comes our way. And we deliver results the right way, breakthrough after patient breakthrough. This life-changing career is yours to engineer. By bringing your ambitious ideas, unique perspective and contributions, you will… Build a better future, amplifying your impact on the causes that matter to you and the world Grow a career reflective of your passion and abilities Connect to a dynamic and inclusive culture that welcomes the challenge of life-long learning.

It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. For sales reps and other patient facing field employees, going into a healthcare setting is considered an essential function of the job and we expect our employees to comply with all credentialing requirements at the hospitals or clinics they support.

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