Senior Cybersecurity Specialist

Abbott Laboratories; Waukegan (IL); Remote; USD 97,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to lead innovative security initiatives. This role involves developing a risk-based cybersecurity program, managing security projects, and collaborating across teams to enhance the security posture. You'll work in a dynamic environment where your expertise in cybersecurity will drive impactful changes. If you're passionate about protecting information and technology assets, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant difference in a respected organization, all while enjoying a supportive work culture that values growth and development.

Benefits

Free Medical Coverage

Retirement Savings Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Career Development Opportunities

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in cybersecurity or IT management.
• Expertise in ISO 27001/2, SOC 2, and HITRUST standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop a risk-based cybersecurity program meeting regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with teams to achieve program requirements while enabling the business.

Skills

Cybersecurity Management

Risk Assessment

Threat Mitigation

Communication Skills

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

JIRA

GRC Toolsets

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.

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.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, growand 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

ThisSenior Cybersecurity Engineer position can work remotely within the U.S.

The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer works closely with the teamsresponsible for developing and maintaining the Abbott Diabetes Care ecosystem, providing expert guidance on securing applications and infrastructure. This role supports cybersecurity operations by designing, developing, or recommending secure technical solutions—including policies, standards, applications, systems, architectures, and infrastructure—that are both operationally effective and efficient.

The engineer ensures the appropriate implementation of security technologies and products to safeguard the organization’s systems and data, while enabling the achievement of business objectives. Additionally, this role leads the design and integration of innovative cybersecurity toolsets to automate the discovery, remediation, and alerting of network and device vulnerabilities, thereby enhancing the overall security posture.

What You’ll Work On

• Develop a risk-based cyber security program which meets regulatory requirements and aligns with industry leading information security practices.

• Perform threat identification and mitigation activities using industry leading security controls and tools sets.

• Advance the Company’s cyber threat and vulnerability management program to ensure consistent identification, analysis, response, and monitoring of cyber security threats, events, and vulnerabilities.

• Assess threats to the business and deploy countermeasures for those threats.

• Collaborate with business units, application development teams, and third-party vendors to achieve program requirements while enabling the business.

• Facilitate cross team coordination to achieve defined security goals as well as meet technical requirements in support of detailed implementation plans for security projects.

• Manage security projects to ensure the timely, on budget, and effective implementation of cyber security improvements that are operationally supported with validation methods in place to measure effectiveness.

• Demonstrate strong organization skills and attention to detail.

  Past success in briefing senior-level executives on technical concepts.

• Experience using JIRA for project and issue tracking.

• Develop strategies, policies, and standards to protect company information and technology assets.

• Manage capital and operational expense budgets to ensure accurate forecasting and administration.

QUALIFICATIONS

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

• At least 5-7 years cybersecurity or IT management system experience with a strong preference for product security and vulnerability management experience.

• Possess expertise in valuing and implementing industry standards such as the ISO 27001/2, SOC 2, HITRUST and FedRAMP Information Security standard and the ISO 22301 Business Continuity Standard.

• Experience with implementation and operational use of GRC toolsets (Governance Risk and Compliance)

• Possess CISSP certification (or similar) and be knowledge of national and international regulatory compliances and frameworks such as ISO, SOX, BASEL II, EU DPD, HIPAA, and PCI DSS.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills and experience explaining technical security concepts to senior level executives

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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 $97,300.00 – $194,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.