Senior Cybersecurity Automation 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:

As a senior cybersecurity engineer, security automation you'll focus on automating and improving Lingo's cybersecurity program. You'll combine your expertise in cloud and application security with a passion for improvement to find opportunities to automate manual processes and create technical controls to enforce policies. You'll work with stakeholders across the engineering organization to create buy-in and devise the best solutions.

What You'll Work On:

• Develop, implement and maintain security automation solutions and resilient enterprise-grade cloud processes for multiple software and systems.

• Author, test, and maintain automation scripts/workflows within the Lingo environment and build pipeline

• Review, debug, and resolve technical issues with security tools used throughout all stages of SDLC

• Coordinate with stakeholders to provision service accounts and/or grant required permissions

• Assist with process development and process improvement for Security Operations including creation/modification of SOPs, Playbooks, and Standards

• Develop metrics and measure effectiveness of process improvement and automation efforts

• Implement test-driven security within the build pipeline

• Conduct research on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and technologies to stay updated on the evolving security landscape

• Work together with operations and development teams to architect and implement monitoring and security solutions in stand-alone and embedded product software and supporting applications.

• Protect applications to ensure compliance with multiple global privacy, security, business resiliency, and compliance frameworks.

  Conduct rigorous oversight of security systems and security configuration administration and define and implement solutions to reduce risk to systems and accounts.

• Lead breach and incident response activities for product and supporting applications.

• Actively monitor, assess, recommend, and lead tactical and strategic initiatives based on new and emerging threats posing risk to cloud computing environments.

• Lead remediation efforts after security assessment findings outline weaknesses requiring attention.

• Research and pilot new security and automation tools and services within our development environment

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

• Minimum 5-10 years of cybersecurity with a focus on security automation experience, with a strong preference for product security experience (consumer-facing apps and services)

• Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, JavaScript, Bash, and PowerShell, with strong scripting and automation skills.

• Experience with SEIM, firewalls, IDS/IPS, EDR, and IAM principles.

• Working knowledge of REST APIs, JSON, Javascrip

• Holds or is working toward multiple cybersecurity certifications, including CCSP, CISSP, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, or additional AWS advanced certifications such as AWS Certified

• Self-motivated, well-organized, and able to position controls in anticipation of threats.

• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills for addressing security issues and solutions.

• Effective communication and collaboration skills for cross-functional teamwork and educating team members.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with SOAR platforms.

• Experience with CI/CD & GitOps platforms and integrating security into DevOps & GitOps processes.

• Solid understanding of cloud PaaS offerings and their native security services.

• Familiarity with cloud security frameworks (e.g., CIS, NIST, ISO).

• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and experience in integrating security into the software development lifecycle.

• Proficiency with DevOps tools and practices, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and version control systems (Git).

• Experience with security tools such as OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, Nessus, Metasploit, Qualys, or similar.

• Solid understanding of cloud security concepts and experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

The base pay for this position is

$112,000.00 – $224,000.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:Information Risk & Quality Assurance

DIVISION:LNGO Lingo

LOCATION:United States > Alameda : 2901 Harbor Bay Parkway

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:Standard

TRAVEL:Yes, 5 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:No

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

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