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.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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, 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.

The Senior Cybersecurity Engineer works closely with the teams developing and maintaining the Abbott Diabetes Care ecosystem to provide guidance on securing applications and infrastructure. Subject Matter Expert in vulnerability management topics and technologies, ensuring a strong cybersecurity posture for our ADC R&D product software portfolio and oversees remediation practices throughout the product lifecycle. Key responsibilities include the design, implementation, monitoring, maintenance, and configuration of critical vulnerability management services, enabling the business to achieve its strategic goals and initiatives.

What You’ll Work On

• Develop, implement and maintain secure, resilient enterprise-grade cloud processes for identifying, understanding, and mitigation vulnerabilities in multiple software and systems in tandem with architects and system engineers.
• Actively monitor, assess, and recommend tactical and strategic initiatives based on new and emerging vulnerabilities posing risk to our products. 
• Work together with security engineering and development teams to develop and implement vulnerability mitigations and solutions in stand-alone and embedded product software and supporting applications.
• Secure multiple applications and up to thousands of computing environments across public, private or hybrid cloud infrastructures.
• Support security testing such as penetration tests, fuzz testing, and internal/external audits. Coordinate remediation efforts to address identified vulnerabilities. 
• Optimize system security design by creating and reviewing architecture and detailed design solutions that mitigate vulnerabilities and reflect best practices. 
• Coordinate with cross functional teams to review and analyze vulnerability scans, create detailed reports, and deliver actionable insights and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
• Actively monitor, assess, recommend, and lead tactical and strategic initiatives based on new and emerging vulnerabilities posing risk to cloud computing environments.
• Support physical device security by determining and implementing secure practices to mitigate vulnerabilities. 
• Configure tools and/or create processes and scripts to automate the identification, testing, and remediation of vulnerabilities in new and changed security infrastructure. 

QUALIFICATIONS 

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

• 5-10 years cybersecurity or IT management system experience with a strong preference for product security and vulnerability management experience (consumer facing apps and services)
• Holds or working toward multiple cybersecurity certifications including: CCSP, CISSP, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or additional AWS advanced certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.  
• Self-motivated, well-organized and able to position controls in anticipation of threats.  
• Experience with vulnerability assessment tools and scanners (e.g Semgrep, TruffleHog, Nessus).  
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and experience explaining technical security concepts to senior level executives 
   

PREFERRED:

• Comprehensive experience working with the full remediation lifecycle of vulnerabilities.  
• Deep understanding of API security architecture standards, mobile and web application security concepts, and secure protection mechanisms  
• Familiar with reviewing and understanding of source code and usage of applicable tooling  

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* 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.
 

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