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 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Our location in St Paul, MN currently has an opportunity for a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst. The Sr. Specialist Cybersecurity will conduct security monitoring, analysis, and incident response of the Abbott Product Technology environment.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

The Sr. Cybersecurity Analyst will be responsible for monitoring security activities of the critical security infrastructure at Abbott supporting customer facing products. This person must be prepared and able to protect Abbott products and assets and information resources from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, perusal, inspection, recording, or destruction. 

Job Responsibilities:

• Design and implement security monitoring capabilities within medical device server-side applications and related infrastructure through SIEM tools.
• Monitors and responds to security events by taking necessary course of action such as identifying, containing, eradicating, recovering, extracting indicators, disseminating IOCs to supporting teams.
• Analyzes network traffic and web application firewall events to determine issues, recommends safeguards to mitigate risk, and performs compliance reviews to ensure applications and servers are operating in accordance with established policies and procedures. 
• Develop and analyze intelligence data as it pertains to the security of the Product Technology environment.
• Performs Incident Handling duties and coordinates with business and application owners to contain and remediate security incidents.
• Works with security technologies and tools, such as SIEM (Splunk). Is exposed through logs/alerts to IDS/IPS, WAF, logical access controls, NGFW, and security operations management systems in order to support security across the enterprise. 
• Submits content tuning requests to improve alert fidelity and reduce false positives.
• Automates manual tasks through technology integrations using APIs and scripting.
• Performs project leadership tasks on select small scale security projects and supports new security project evaluations. 
• Provides assistance, guidance, support, & remediation of security architectural/technical issues to Product Technology environments.
• Supports security audit information gathering, review, & remediation. 
• Maintains security infrastructure & cyber-security operations tools used to mitigate identified risks, to meet business objectives, audits and regulatory requirements. 
• Continually reviews and enhances existing knowledge of the security aspects of common product sets and technologies. 
• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments.
• Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Minimum Experience: 

• 5-7+ years of experience working in an Information Security environment.
• Bachelor’s degree required but will consider applicable work experience as it translates to an equivalent degree.  
• Experience in supporting cyber-security event/log analysis and/or incident response and conducting analysis of cyber-security events required. 
• Experience with SIEM systems, preferably Splunk. Familiar with Regex.

Preferred Experience:

• GCIH, GSEC, CISSP or equivalent certification preferred.
• Experience with programming and scripting languages, preferably Python and PowerShell.
• Exposed to vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management procedures.
• Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross-division business unit model preferred.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills; must be able to communicate to all levels of staff up to executive-level management, customers (internal and external), and vendors. 
• Must have strong time management skills and an ability to thrive in a high cadence operation.
• Must work well within a tight-knit team environment and be able work with peers, customers, and partners to support the mission.  
• Must be flexible with working hours during critical deliveries and operational issues. 
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills are required for this role. Multi-lingual communication skills are a plus but are not required.
• Ability to train others and participate in knowledge sharing with other staff.
• Proven ability to make sound decisions in a timely manner.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.
• Demonstrates a passion for information security beyond the workplace.

WHAT WE OFFER

At Abbott, you can have a good job that can grow into a great career. We offer:

• Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
• Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
• Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs
• Paid time off
• 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match
• The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities

Learn more about our benefits that add real value to your life to help you live fully:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that provides the growth and strength to build your future. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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