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Cyber Risk Defense Consultant V - Splunk Administrator
Looking for the future of health care cyber security? You’ll find it at the Kaiser Permanente Cyber Risk Defense Center (CRDC). We provide around-the-clock monitoring, intelligence, and incident response that help identify potential threats, assess the risk, and continually evolve our detection and response capabilities. Our goal is simple – to keep Kaiser Permanente’s operations running while protecting the information of our members, care teams, brokers, and employees. Our security teams provide continuous monitoring, threat intelligence, and incident response to identify potential threats, assess the risk, and continually evolve detection and response capabilities. We work closely with organizations and business partners throughout Kaiser Permanente, as well as external vendors and alliance business partners, to drive security innovation that enables health care delivery for the next generation.
Members of the Kaiser Permanente Cyber team work closely with engineers, developers, and leadership to operate and improve our cyber capabilities. We highly value collaboration and work to deliver cyber security best practices, operational capabilities, all in a cross functional, agile environment. Join us for the opportunity to define what cyber security looks like in digital health and make an impact along the way.
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Job Type:Standard
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Job Level:Individual Contributor
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Travel:No
Success Profile
These are the traits of the most successful members of our cyber team.
- Versatile
- Detail-oriented
- Proactive
- Positive
- Diplomatic
- Skilled Communicator
Benefits
Our compensation and benefits are designed to help you and your family stay healthy and thrive in and beyond work.
Our Culture
The Kaiser Permanente Cyber experience is people-centric. Our cyber team secures and defends a digital ecosystem that delivers care to more than 12 million members and their families. We keep our operations running while protecting the information of our members, care teams, brokers, and employees. Cyber team members are agile, have a sharp attention to detail, and apply creative, out-of-the-box thinking.
Hear From Our People
Cecily
Senior Analyst,
Threat Detection Operations
I am proud to have served my country and working at Kaiser Permanente allows me to feel like I am continuing a commitment to service. It feels great to work for a company that values my military experience and to be able to work with many other veterans.
Nabeel
Senior Analyst,
Threat Detection Operations
As a cyber security professional, working for one of America’s most innovative and integrated health care providers, my team is the first line of defense against an ever-changing threat landscape. Using a multitude of sources for threat intelligence and counter measures, we protect our members’ information. Being a part of a cohesive and collaborative team is the best part of my job.
Clinton
Director, Threat Detection Operations
My team gets the unique opportunity to learn and use a variety of best-in-class security tools. We use endpoint detection, data loss prevention, automation and orchestration, advanced analytics, and many other cutting-edge tools, giving our team members the experiences they need to defend against emerging threats.
Mark
Sr. Director IT Business Operations
Our mission to protect and enable Kaiser Permanente's ability to operate and deliver patient care makes me proud of the work we do. We work with some of the most talented individuals in the industry and our programs are cutting edge. Whether you’re just starting out, or you’re a seasoned professional, KP has a place for you to put your skills to the test and learn with best.
Alex
Principal, Security Analytics
Working at Kaiser Permanente has taken my career and my personal life to a new level. I’m able to collaborate with engaged and knowledgeable professionals across the country. Best of all, I have the flexibility to work from home and telecommute. Cyber security at Kaiser is top notch! We have cutting edge analytics, great tools and a fantastic team. At Kaiser Permanente, I have a chance to contribute to multiple areas in cyber and have a large impact. We are constantly improving our detections, policy, and process.
Steve
Executive Director and Deputy Chief Information Security Officer
Every day, our security professionals are making an impact by protecting Kaiser Permanente from cyber threats. We operate across multiple disciplines including threat detection, cyber threat intelligence, emergency response, vulnerability management, and many more, giving cyber professionals from all walks of life a home for their skills and passion.
Cyber Risk Defense Consultant V - Splunk Administrator
This senior level employee is primarily responsible for overseeing the maintenance and protection of integrity and reliability of the security of data, systems and networks.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
- Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
- Leads team in the proactive monitoring and/or response to known or emerging threats against the KP network.
- Effectively communicates investigative findings to non-technical audiences.
- Plans and facilitates regular operations meeting with Cyber Risk Defense Center (CRDC) teams.
- Supports closed loop processes on security efforts by providing feedback to the TDA leads and/or leadership.
- Participates in information fusion procedures across operations and engineering, including activities such as Use Case planning/development, Use Case quality assurance validation, and response procedure documentation.
- Serves as a liaison between stage teams and upper management by identifying issues, improvement areas, or security/architectural gaps and suggesting appropriate improvements.
- Drives the development of the CRDC intellectual capital by leading process or procedure improvements, consulting on brown bag training sessions, and leading the development of new training documents.
- Partners with the CRDC Policy Engineers and Remediation teams to contain identified issues and determine the best approach for improving security posture.
- Facilitates follow-up remediation design and review efforts.
- Leads the investigation and triage of security events across multiple domains.
- Leads complex data analyses in support of security event management processes, including root cause analysis.
- Coordinates the response and resolution of high impact or critical cyber security incidents.
- Leads the deployment of threat detection capabilities and/or incident response plans which may include after-hours support and coordination among responsible teams.
- Drives the execution of incident detection and/or handling processes which may include containment, protection, and remediation activities.
- Minimum two (2) years in an informal leadership role working with project or technical teams.
- Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Social Science, Mathematics, or related field and Minimum eight (8) 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.
- One (1) year supervisory experience
- Two (2) years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above)
- Knowledge and professional enterprise experience supporting Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud environments.
- Possess Splunk Architect and/or Splunk Administration Certification(s).
- Possess software development skills creating AI and ML models and detections.
- Professional experience and administration of large-scale Linux/Unix deployments.
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Hawaii Remote Workers Location, 415 S Beretania St, Honolulu,Hawaii, 96813 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 Department: KPIT ADMIN - CYBER THREAT - 9601 Pay Range: $153500 - $198550 / year Travel: No
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