Information Security Advisor - Detection Engineer

Elevance Health; Indianapolis (IN); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Elevance Health in Indianapolis is seeking an Information Security Advisor - Detection Engineer to deliver strategic network security, access control, and secure messaging solutions. The role supports enterprise standards and requires collaboration across CSOC, Fraud, Threat Intelligence, and Engineering teams.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in security, strong incident response, threat intelligence, and CI/CD experience, with a BS/BA in IT or related field.

Qualifications

• BS/BA in Information Technology or related field and 5+ years in security roles.
• Experience designing highly complex systems and coordinating security projects.
• Strong knowledge of access control and network security controls.

Responsibilities

• Deliver strategic network security and access control solutions in line with enterprise standards.
• Lead investigations, incident response, and root cause analysis for security events.
• Develop testing plans and support CI/CD deployment of detection content.
• Coordinate with CSOC, Fraud, Threat Intelligence and Engineering teams.
• Maintain security incident response plans and change control activities.
• Provide risk assessments and guidance on security procedures and compliance.

Skills

Access Control

Network Security

Security Analytics

Incident Response

Python

PowerShell

CI/CD

Threat Intelligence

Security Architecture

Compliance & Risk

Education

BS/BA in Information Technology or related field

Tools

SIEM

EDR

UEBA

Python

PowerShell

CI/CD

Job description

Location: This role requires associates to be in-office 1-2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

Please note that per our policy on hybrid/virtual work, candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance from the posting location(s) will not be considered for employment, unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

The Information Security Advisor - Detection Engineer is responsible for the delivery of strategic network security, access control and secure transaction/messaging solutions. Ensures security solutions involving the use of technologies are well-conceived, designed and implemented in compliance with enterprise standards.

How You Will Make An Impact

• Maintains enterprise information security policies, technical standards, guidelines, procedures, and other elements of an infrastructure necessary to support information security in compliance with established company policies, regulatory requirements, and generally accepted information security controls.
• Provides first level engineering design functions and trouble resolution; provides trouble resolution and serves as point of technical escalation on complex problems; leads or plans implementations for access management and network security technologies
• Develops testing plans to ensure quality of implementation; leads the investigation and reporting of data security events and incidents; provides system and network architecture support for information and network security technologies.
• Provides technical support to business and technology associate's in risk assessments and implementation of appropriate information security procedures, standards and technologies.
• Maintains security incident response plans.
• Represents major upgrades and business system replacements in change control.
• Oversees Enterprise mix of vendor services.
• Recommends changes and updates to strategy.
• May act a key contact for setting vendor strategy.
• Designs & engineers repetitive technical solutions based on business requirements and defined technology standards.
• Develops support procedures and performance metrics reports; leads level 1 & 2 incident recoveries; may organize the efforts of other analysts as part of incident recovery; leads root cause analysis efforts.
• Must be capable of providing top-tier support for 4 or more of the information security technology common body of knowledge skill sets: 1) Access Control, 2) Application Security, 3) Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning, 4) Cryptography, 5) Information Security and Risk Management 6) Legal, Regulations, 7) Compliance and Investigations, 8) Operations Security, 9) Physical (Environmental) Security, 10) Security Architecture and Design, 11) Telecommunications and Network Security.
• Designing, developing, tuning, and maintaining security detections, correlation rules, and behavioral analytics
• Developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for deployment, testing, and validation of detection content
• Collaborating with CSOC, Fraud, Threat Intelligence, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to enhance monitoring capabilities

Minimum Requirements

• Requires BS/BA degree in Information Technology or related field of study and a minimum of 5 years experience in systems support, system administration, system engineering, system security, access management, network security, network communications, computer networking, telecommunications, systems development and management, hardware, software, and/or data; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.
• Requires experience in planning and designing highly complex systems.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities, And Experiences

• Experience with multiple technical and business disciplines strongly preferred. Security Certifications: CISSP or other technical security certifications (e.g. Systems Security Certified Practitioner, Certification and Accreditation Professional) strongly preferred.
• SIEM, EDR, UEBA, and fraud analytics platforms experience preferred.
• Detection engineering and security analytics experience preferred.
• Scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, or similar technologies experience preferred.
• CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation experience preferred.
• Machine learning concepts, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics for cybersecurity use cases experience preferred.
• Security automation and orchestration technologies.