Sr. Analyst Cyber Risk Defense Countermeasures - Englewood, United States - Kaiser Permanente

Description

: Salary Range: $62.07/hour - $72.98/hour

Technical Summary

Do you enjoy information security research and providing solutions to better protect networks from cyber threat adversaries? Do you have experience developing protective and detective controls? Would you like the opportunity to research the latest threats and techniques used by attackers?

This position is on our Threat Intelligence and Detection Engineering (TIDE) Countermeasures team and we are looking for a cyber security professional with experience and education in tactical cyber-attack evaluation, exploit testing and analysis, and seeing countermeasures implemented to better defend against an evolving threat landscape.

The individual is driven and passionate about following new developments in the threat landscape.

Job Summary:

This individual contributor is primarily responsible for monitoring, detecting, protecting and ensuring the maintenance, integrity and reliability of security data, systems and networks.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Completes work assignments and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area; supporting the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; ensuring team follows all procedures and policies; coordinating and assigning resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines; collaborating cross-functionally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating high priority issues or risks, as appropriate; and recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities.
• Practices self-development and promotes learning in others by proactively providing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and customers; building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; influencing others through technical explanations and examples; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; providing feedback to others and managers; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; supporting team collaboration; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Provides proactive monitoring and/or response to known or emerging threats against the KP network.
• Effectively communicates investigative findings to non-technical audiences.
• Participates in regular operations meeting with TDA, TRI, and/or TAG teams.
• Supports information fusion procedures across operations and engineering, including activities such as Use Case planning/development, Use Case quality assurance validation, and response procedure documentation.
• Identifies and capitalizes on opportunities for cyber security improvements across one or more cyber defense domain(s).
• Contributes to the CDC intellectual capital by making process or procedure improvements, conducting brown bag training sessions, and creating new training documents.
• Collaborates with the CDC Policy Engineers and Remediation teams to contain identified issues and determine the best approach for improving security posture.
• Provides insight and subject matter expertise in follow-up remediation design and review.
• Conducts investigation and triage of security events within assigned domain.
• Performs complex data analysis in support of security event management processes, including root cause analysis.
• Activates appropriate threat detection capabilities and/or incident response plans which may include after-hours support and coordination among responsible teams.
• Executes incident detection and/or handling processes which may include containment, protection, and remediation activities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Social Science, Mathematics, or related field and Minimum six (6) years experience in IT or a related field, including Minimum two (2) years in information security or network engineering. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Additional Requirements:

• N/A

Preferred Qualifications:

• Three (3) years experience working on project or technical teams.
• Two (2) years work experience requiring the development of technical documents or presentations.
• One (1) year of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above)
• Two (2) years experience in IT incident management, including the development and/or deployment of remediation plans.
• Two (2) years experience in cyber security threat research or large scale data analytics.
• Two (2) years experience in cyber security data analytics.
• Global Information Assurance certification(s).

Primary Location: Colorado,Greenwood Village,Greenwood Plaza IT
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Remote
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-IT-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Specialty: IS Cyber Risk Defense
Department: KPIT ADMIN - CYBER THREAT
Pay Range: $ $166980 / year The ranges posted above reflect the location in the job posting. The salary range may vary if you reside in a different location or state than the location posted.
Travel: No
Remote: Work location is the remote workplace (from home) within KP authorized states. Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. At Kaiser Permanente, equity, inclusion and diversity are inextricably linked to our mission, and we aim to make it a part of everything we do. We know that having a diverse and inclusive workforce makes Kaiser Permanente a better place to receive health care, a more supportive partner in our communities we serve, and a more fulfilling place to work. Working at Kaiser Permanente means that you agree to and abide by our commitment to equity and our expectation that we all work together to create an inclusive work environment focused on a sense of belonging and wellbeing.

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status. Submit Interest