Cybersecurity Engineer II

HIGHLIGHTS

Location:Remote, USA

Position Type:Contract

Hourly / Salary:BOE

Residency Status:US Citizen or Green Card Holder

Our client is looking for a Cybersecurity Engineer II to join their team!

Position Summary

This position designs, develops, configures, implements, tunes, maintains solutions, and resolves technical and business issues related to cybersecurity threat & vulnerability management, identity management, security operations center, forensics, and data protection. Cybersecurity Engineers work with Cybersecurity Architects to execute strategic cyber initiatives, evaluate security components of the network, applications, and end-user devices, and provides guidance to ensure new systems meet regulatory and technical standards. Cybersecurity Engineers participate in root-cause analysis efforts to determine improvement opportunities when failures occur. Manage Cyber systems, ensure they are tuned, on the current release, and manage appropriate change management across the IT organization and the business.

Core Functions

• Leads in the design and implementation of cybersecurity solutions.
• Leads in providing technical expertise and support for cybersecurity solutions, including operational aspects of the software, hardware, and network/firewall.
• Leads in the design, implementation, and compliance of secure configurations for applications and infrastructure components.
• Leads in technical assessments of systems and applications to ensure compliance with policy, standards, and regulations.
• Leads in the ongoing evaluation and development of security policies and procedures.
• Leads the revision of policies and procedures, as needed.
• Serves as technical lead of cybersecurity projects, including the development of project scope requirements, cybersecurity product implementation, tuning, and operational support model creation.
• Under general direction, this position is responsible for cybersecurity across multiple departments system-wide and requires interaction at all levels of staff and management.
• Work closely on cross-functional IT Teams.
• Performs all functions according to established policies, procedures, regulatory and accreditation requirements, as well as applicable professional standards. Provides all customers of our client with an excellent service experience by consistently demonstrating our core and leader behaviors each and every day
  
  

Minimum Requirements

• Four to six years of experience of enterprise-scale information security engineering, preferably in healthcare.
• Must also possess one to three years experience in a healthcare environment or an equivalent combination of relevant education, technical, business and healthcare experience.
• Experience, IT operations, automation of cybersecurity processes, coding and scripting languages, ability to document cybersecurity processes as well as use case development.
• Experience with the assessing cyber products, including vendor selection, define requirements, contractual documentation development.
• Experienced in planning, designing and implementing cybersecurity solutions.
• Experienced in operating, maintaining and implementing, upgrading and lifecycle of cybersecurity solutions.
• Proficient understanding of regulatory and compliance mandates, including but not limited to HIPAA, HITECH, PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley.
• Advanced knowledge of Security Engineering Principles, including risk management, resilience, vulnerability management, Information Security, NIST, MITRE ATT@CK, etc.
• Expertise in Cyber products supporting Data Loss Prevention, EDR, AntiVirus, Perimeter services, Threat systems, cyber platform analytics, SIEM, CASB, CLOUD Security, ETC.
• Requires independent judgment, critical decision making, excellent analytical skills, with excellent verbal and written communications.
• Ability to think quickly under difficult or complex conditions and clearly communicate to appropriate staff; ability to balance project workloads with customer support and on-call demands.
• Must demonstrate knowledge of information technology and information security principles and practices.
• Requires communication and presentation skills to engage technical and non-technical audiences.
• Requires ability to communicate and interact across facilities and at various levels.
• Incumbent will have skills to mentor less experienced team members.
• As is typical in this industry, variable shifts and hours and responding to after-hours notifications may be required.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification in two or more of the following areas: Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP), HealthCare Information Security & Privacy Practitioner, (HCISPP), CompTIA Security , Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Engineering (ISSEP), Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), SANS GIAC, or Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
• Three plus years as a System Administrator, Security Operations, or in IT Operations. Or three plus years in risk management or GRC experience in the healthcare/medical environment.
• Must also possess three-plus years of experience in a healthcare environment or an equivalent combination of relevant education, technical, business, and healthcare experience.
• Additional related education and/or experience preferred.
  
  

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