Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

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.

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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.

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• 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

This Senior Cybersecurity Engineer position can work remotely within the U.S.

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer performs all procedures necessary to ensure the safety of information systems assets and to protect systems from intentional or inadvertent access or destruction.  Participate in technical and non-technical projects requiring information security oversight and to ensure policies, procedures and standards are met.  Serve as an additional security team member, aiding in incident response (IR).  Responsible for defining improvements to the program, and implementing new technologies, tools, metrics, and standards.

What You’ll Work On

• Develop and maintain secure, resilient enterprise-grade cloud processes in tandem with architects and system engineers.

• Secure business applications and computing environments across public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructures.

• Maintain a consistent, secure environment using configuration management solutions (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.). Conduct rigorous oversight of security systems and security configuration administration to reduce risk to enterprise systems and accounts.

• Deploy strong identity and access management (IDAM) controls across applications and computing environments.

• Assist with development, maintenance and utilization of scripts (e.g., Python, Ruby, etc.) to support custom extract, transform load (ETL) tools with a security focus for data flow.

• Attend regular technical project and implementation meetings, and serve as the security consultant to help guide secure application and infrastructure configurations.

• Actively monitor, assess and recommend tactical and strategic initiatives based on new and emerging threats posing risk to cloud computing environments.

• Manage remediation efforts after security assessment findings outline weaknesses requiring attention.

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

• 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.

• Act as a key figure in incident response to track occurrence and resolution, with strict documentation and reporting as well as engagement with security operations and incident response teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

• Minimum 5 year's work experience in software and/or security areas.

• Progressively more responsible work experience in a range of software engineering disciplines using a variety of programming methods 

• Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross-division business unit model preferred. Ability to work in a highly matrixed and geographically diverse business environment. 

• Ability to work within a team and as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, changing environment. 

• Ability to leverage and/or engage others to accomplish projects. 

• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization. Multitasks, prioritizes and meets deadlines in timely manner. 

• Strong organizational and follow-up skills, as well as attention to detail. 

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

Apply Now

* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

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.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

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