Cybersecurity Engineer

Abbott Laboratories; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 61,000 - 123,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Health coverage

Retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to contribute to vulnerability management and secure product development from a remote position within the United States. You will design, implement, and refine risk-based security controls across applications, devices, and networks to protect critical data and enable business operations.

Responsibilities include threat analysis, remediation coordination, and collaboration with product teams and vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.
• Minimum 2 year of relevant cybersecurity experience.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Experience using JIRA for project and issue tracking.
• Technical knowledge of common web and mobile application security vulnerabilities, with the ability to identify, triage, assess cybersecurity risk, and support remediation efforts—particularly in ADC products.
• Experience with vulnerability scan findings, penetration test findings, or product security assessment results.
• Preferred Security+ certification or equivalent technical cybersecurity certification.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and implementation of a risk-based cybersecurity program aligned with regulatory standards and industry-leading practices.
• Perform threat identification, analysis, and mitigation using advanced security controls and toolsets.
• Support the evolution of the company’s cyber threat and vulnerability management program to ensure consistent detection, response, and monitoring of cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities.
• Assess business-related threats and deploy appropriate countermeasures.
• Collaborate with business units, application development teams, product teams, and third-party vendors to meet cybersecurity program requirements while enabling business operations.
• Apply deep technical expertise to protect the organization from cyber threats, including knowledge of firewalls, IDS/IPS, DLP, endpoint protection, log aggregation, product security vulnerability management, and other advanced security technologies.
• Participate in cross-functional coordination to achieve security goals and support detailed implementation plans for cybersecurity initiatives.
• Provide subject matter expertise on security projects to ensure timely, cost-effective, and operationally supported implementation of cybersecurity improvements, with validation methods to measure effectiveness.
• Assist management in developing strategies, policies, and standards to safeguard company information and technology assets.
• Identify, triage, assess risk, and support remediation of vulnerabilities identified through security scans, penetration testing, and product security assessments in web and mobile applications, particularly within ADC products.

Skills

JIRA experience

Attention to detail

Web & mobile security

Vulnerability assessments

Security+ certification

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Descritivo de Cargo

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.

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
• 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 Cybersecurity Engineer position can work out remotely within the U.S. As a Vulnerability Operations Engineer, contribute to cybersecurity operations by designing, developing, and recommending secure technical solutions—including policies, standards, applications, systems, architectures, and infrastructure that are both operationally viable and efficient. Ensure the appropriate implementation of security products and technologies to protect organizational systems and data, supporting the achievement of business objectives. Assist in the design and enhancement of cybersecurity toolsets to enable automated discovery, triage, risk assessment, remediation tracking, and alerting of product, application, network, and device vulnerabilities, thereby strengthening the organization's security posture. Conduct analysis of emerging technologies and product security vulnerability trends to support their implementation.

What You’ll Work On

• Contribute to the design and implementation of a risk-based cybersecurity program aligned with regulatory standards and industry-leading practices.
• Perform threat identification, analysis, and mitigation using advanced security controls and toolsets.
• Support the evolution of the company’s cyber threat and vulnerability management program to ensure consistent detection, response, and monitoring of cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities.
• Assess business-related threats and deploy appropriate countermeasures.
• Collaborate with business units, application development teams, product teams, and third-party vendors to meet cybersecurity program requirements while enabling business operations.
• Apply deep technical expertise to protect the organization from cyber threats, including knowledge of firewalls, IDS/IPS, DLP, endpoint protection, log aggregation, product security vulnerability management, and other advanced security technologies.
• Participate in cross-functional coordination to achieve security goals and support detailed implementation plans for cybersecurity initiatives.
• Provide subject matter expertise on security projects to ensure timely, cost-effective, and operationally supported implementation of cybersecurity improvements, with validation methods to measure effectiveness.
• Assist management in developing strategies, policies, and standards to safeguard company information and technology assets.
• Identify, triage, assess risk, and support remediation of vulnerabilities identified through security scans, penetration testing, and product security assessments in web and mobile applications, particularly within ADC products.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or related discipline.
• Minimum 2 year of relevant cybersecurity experience.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Experience using JIRA for project and issue tracking.
• Technical knowledge of common web and mobile application security vulnerabilities, with the ability to identify, triage, assess cybersecurity risk, and support remediation efforts—particularly in ADC products.
• Experience with vulnerability scan findings, penetration test findings, or product security assessment results.
• Preferred Security+ certification or equivalent technical cybersecurity certification.

Family de Cargo

• Information Risk & Quality Assurance
• Divisão ADC Diabetes Care
• Localidade United States of America : Remote
• Localidades Adicionais
• Turno de Trabalho Standard
• Viagem Yes, 5 % of the Time
• Vigilância médica Not Applicable
• Atividades de trabalho significativas Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

The base pay for this position is $61,300.00 – $122,700.00 In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal #software

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

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A Abbott significa o poder da saúde. Por mais de 125 anos, a Abbott tem ajudado as pessoas a alcançar seu potencial — porque uma saúde melhor permite que indivíduos e comunidades vivam melhor. Com uma rede global e diversificada, que serve clientes em mais de 160 países, criamos novas soluções — em todo o espectro da saúde, em todo o mundo, para todas as fases da vida. Seja através da próxima geração de equipamentos de diagnóstico, dispositivos médicos para estilos de vida em transformação, nutrição baseada em ciência, ou novas reformulações, estamos desenvolvendo tecnologias mais inovadoras e revolucionárias na área da saúde para que indivíduos vivam melhor e com mais saúde. Os colaboradores da Abbott vêm trabalhar todos os dias com energia, entusiasmo e comprometimento com o intuito de promover a saúde e o bem-estar de milhões de pessoas. Eles superam os limites para ajudar a gerenciar e tratar alguns dos maiores desafios de saúde da vida. Convidamos você a explorar as oportunidades na Abbott, a ver se seus talentos e aspirações de carreira podem se encaixar com as nossas vagas.

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