Cybersecurity Engineer

Piedmont HealthCare PA; Statesville (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Piedmont HealthCare PA is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer for an onsite role in Statesville, NC. The position supports monitoring, threat assessment, incident response, and architecture design across healthcare IT environments.

You will respond to alerts, coordinate changes, and collaborate with IT teams to strengthen security and ensure HIPAA/privacy compliance. Local travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Business Systems, or a Healthcare related field with a significant technical component.
• Significant and relevant work experience and/or technical certification can be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis.
• 5+ years of relevant experience deploying and/or administering cybersecurity solutions, preferably in a clinical setting and preferably in a large ambulatory physician practice.
• Strong knowledge and experience with multiple enterprise security solutions including SIEM, E-mail Gateways, Firewall, MFA, IDS, and IPS.

Responsibilities

• Understand and support security technology disciplines including endpoint security, data loss protection, firewalls, IDS/IPS, and log collection and monitoring.
• Respond to and investigate security alerts from configured alert systems.
• Support complex systems with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity, security, and accessibility.
• Participate in planning with stakeholders and IT groups, including business requirement meetings.
• Coordinate changes across multiple systems.
• Develop new alerts and monitoring techniques aligned to engineering requirements.
• Coordinate problem resolution across functional areas and provide SME for diagnosing and resolving issues.
• Report security issues when appropriate and gather required information.
• Assist with documentation for new cybersecurity solutions and ongoing maintenance.

Skills

Customer service

Independent worker

Team collaboration

Written communication

Verbal communication

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Healthcare tech

Tools

SIEM

E-mail Gateways

Firewall

Multi-Factor authentication

IDS

IPS

Job description

Piedmont HealthCare PA is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to help advance a strategic, comprehensive enterprise cyber security program. In this onsite role in Statesville, NC, you will support the protection of healthcare systems by covering monitoring, threat assessment and mitigation, security incident response, and cybersecurity systems architecture design and implementation.

You will work across multiple technologies and environments, responding to alerts, coordinating changes across systems, and collaborating with stakeholders and IT groups to improve security outcomes while ensuring adherence to applicable requirements.

Responsibilities

• Understand and support security technology disciplines including endpoint security, data loss protection, firewalls, intrusion detection and intrusion prevention, application and system scanning tools, and log collection and monitoring.
• Respond to and investigate security alerts from configured alert systems.
• Support medium to high complexity systems and applications with multiple concurrent users, helping ensure control, integrity, security, and accessibility.
• Participate in short- and long-term planning with stakeholders and IT groups, including attendance at business requirement meetings as needed.
• Integrate solutions across applications and platforms based on engineering requirements.
• Develop new alerts and monitoring techniques aligned to engineering requirements.
• Coordinate changes across multiple systems.
• Forecast utilization patterns and identify modifications and upgrades.
• Review security reports and perform periodic system reviews with users and vendors.
• Coordinate problem resolution across functional areas and provide subject matter expertise for diagnosing and resolving issues.
• Report security issues when appropriate and gather required information.
• Provide security recommendations and participate in investigations as needed, ensuring adherence to security requirements.
• Assist with documentation for new cybersecurity solutions and ensure ongoing maintenance of documentation.
• May communicate, consult, and coordinate across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Respond to and manage tickets assigned in the trouble ticketing or request system.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Business Systems, or a Healthcare related field with a significant technical component.
• Significant and relevant work experience and/or technical certification can be substituted for education on a year-for-year basis.
• 5+ years of relevant experience deploying and/or administering cybersecurity solutions, preferably in a clinical setting and preferably in a large ambulatory physician practice.
• Relevant technical certifications are preferred.
• Strong knowledge and experience with multiple enterprise security solutions including SIEM, E-mail Gateways, Firewall, Multi-Factor authentication, IDS, and IPS.
• Commitment to handling sensitive data, including corporate financial and business data as well as patient protected health information (PHI).
• Knowledge of HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, aligned with the guarantee of patient data privacy and security under HIPAA of 1996 provisions.
• Exemplary adherence to PHC policies related to privacy and cybersecurity, with the expectation of supporting other PHC team members with best practices.
• Excellent customer service skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, including strong project management skills.
• Ability to build relationships and trust with internal customers.

Technologies

• SIEM
• E-mail Gateways
• Firewall
• Multi-Factor authentication
• IDS
• IPS

Supervision

• Reports to the Cybersecurity Manager

Working Conditions

• Most work occurs in an office setting, computer facility, and clinical offices.
• Local travel is required.
• Minimal exposure to communicable diseases is possible.

Physical and Mental Demands

• Standing and sitting for long periods while doing computer input and responding to phone questions.
• Ability to bend, stoop, twist, and work with computer equipment.
• Occasional stress when working with tense users and managing multiple tasks.

Location: Statesville, NC (onsite)

Minimum Experience: 5 years

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Business Systems, or a Healthcare related field