Remote Cybersecurity Engineer — Vulnerability Ops

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

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.