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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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.

Opportunity:

This position works out of our Des Plaines, IL Headquarters

• Support cybersecurity operations by designing, developing or recommending secure technical solutions, including policy, standards, applications, systems, architectures, and infrastructure that are operationally viable and efficient for the organization and its products.
• Ensure appropriate application of security products and technologies to protect the organization's products, systems and information and enable achievement of the organization's objectives.
• Manage and design innovative integration of cybersecurity toolsets to enable
  more automated discovery, remediation, and alerting of product vulnerabilities, as a means of improving the security posture.
• Perform analysis of emerging technologies and design and build architectures and solutions to enable secure implementation of new technologies

What You'll Work On:

• Develop a risk-based cyber security program which meets regulatory requirements and aligns with industry leading information security practices.
• Perform threat identification and mitigation activities using industry leading security controls and tools sets.
• Advance the Company's product cyber threat and vulnerability management program to ensure consistent identification, analysis, response, and monitoring of cyber security threats, events, and vulnerabilities.
• Assess threats to the business and products and deploy countermeasures for those threats.
• Collaborate with business units, application development teams, and third-party vendors to achieve program requirements while enabling the business.
• Apply technical knowledge to protect the Company and its products against cyber threats (e.g., knowledge of firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems, data loss prevention solutions, endpoint pro tections, log aggregation technology and other leading-edge security technologies).
• Facilitate cross team coordination to achieve defined security goals as well as meet technical requirements in support of detailed implementation plans for security projects.
• Manage security projects to ensure the timely, on budget, and effective implementation of cyber security improvements that are operationally supported with validation methods in place to measure effectiveness.
• Perform assessment of product cyber security incidents to identify the root cause, respond, and recover the environment.
• Develop strategies, policy and standards to protect company information and technology assets.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE, YOU'LL BRING

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• Minimum 5 years' experience in cyber-security discipline

Preferred

• CISSP Certification
• Software lifecycle development experience (SDLC)
• Thread Modeling experience
• Penetration testing experience
• Medical device experience

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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.

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

The salary for this role is between:

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JOB FAMILY:

Information Risk & Quality Assurance

DIVISION:

RMDx Rapid and Molecular Diagnostics

LOCATION:

United States > Des Plaines : DP01

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

No

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Continuous walking for prolonged periods (more than 2 hours at a time in an 8 hour day)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf