Senior Cybersecurity Specialist

AECOM; Green Oaks (IL); Remote; USD 85,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare company seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Specialist to architect and manage a secure cloud application infrastructure. The role demands expertise in cybersecurity, systems administration, and strong analytical skills. Join a diverse team committed to enhancing health and wellness through innovative technologies.

Benefits

Free medical coverage

Retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

Tuition reimbursement

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of cybersecurity experience.
• Holds one or more cybersecurity certifications.
• Self-motivated and well-organized.

Responsibilities

• Attend regular technical project meetings and serve as a security consultant.
• Document and enforce areas of security improvement.
• Assist with incident response as events are escalated.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field

Job description

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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

**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 (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-stude...) student debt program and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree...) 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 **Senior** **Cybersecurity Specialist** position can work **remotely within the U.S** .

The Sr. cybersecurity engineer works with the product cybersecurity program to help architect, deploy and operate a secure cloud application infrastructure that aligns with business needs. In tandem with cybersecurity leadership, security engineers consistently assess the threat landscape and adapt quickly to protect the business from risk. They must be highly technical and possesses experience in security and systems administration across a wide variety software architectures. They are also expected to have a strong work ethic, leverage analytical and critical thinking, and be skillful at meeting change requests at a moment’s notice. Because the role often interfaces with other business units, strong listening and communication skills are expected.

**WHAT YOU’LL DO:**

+ Attend regular technical project and implementation meetings and serve as the security consultant to help guide secure practices.

+ Align with architects and development teams for a mission of secure design.

+ Document, formulate and enforce areas of security improvement that balance risk with business operations and do not diminish efficiencies or innovation.

+ Participate in technical projects requiring information security

+ Participate in threat modeling collaboration with other members of the development and security teams. Stay current with and remain knowledgeable about new threats.

+ Leverage automation and orchestration solutions to automate repetitive tasks.

+ Assist with incident response as events are escalated, including triage, remediation and documentation.

+ Aid in threat and vulnerability research across event data collected by systems.

+ oversight and to ensure policies, procedures and standards are met.

+ Develop security test plans from architectural design. Identify deficiencies and make enhancements to ensure production is not impacted.

+ Drive security efficiencies, enabling security team members to work on more advanced tasks.

+ Stay apprised of current and proposed security changes impacting regulatory, privacy and security industry best practice guidance. Apply learned knowledge across key lines of business, including products, practices and procedures.

+ Attend and fully engage in change and project management meetings.

+ Perform other duties as assigned.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

+ Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field

+ **Minimum** **5 years** of cybersecurity experience

+ Holds one or more cybersecurity certifications or has completed necessary coursework.

+ Self-motivated, well-organized and able to position controls in anticipation of threats.

**PREFERRED:**

+ Understanding of OWASP, CVSS, the MITRE ATT&CK framework and the software development lifecycle (SLDC).

+ Experience in threat modeling.

+ Ability to effectively communicate business risk as it relates to cybersecurity.

+ Up-to-date understanding of a wide range of incident response, system configuration, vulnerability management and hardening guidelines.

+ Experience in incident response and system monitoring and analysis.

+ Track record of acting with integrity, taking pride in work, seeking to excel, being curious and adaptable, and communicating effectively.

+ Vulnerability and penetration-testing skills.

+ Displays an analytical and problem-solving mindset.

+ Is highly organized and efficient.

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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.

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The base pay for this position is $85,300.00 – $170,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email [e-mail]