Description: Upon start, selected candidate must reside in CA, CO, GA, HI, MD, OR, VA, or WA. Technical Summary:Kaiser Permanente is expanding our Cyber Risk Defense program and seeking a highly skilled individualwhich can facilitate department missions in the areas of data science and python development with deep expertise in the Splunk Enterprise platform. This unique role focuses on supporting the mission of Cyber Security and is a technical expert in developing advanced machine learning solutions to enhance cyber threat, privacy, and compliance across clinical systems. As the position requires significant individual contributions, the successful candidate will present with qualifications commensurate with the expert-level position, demonstrate knowledge of clinical systems/workflows, and possess hands-on experience building and maintaining anomaly detection models. Experience with machine-learning frameworks/algorithms like Random Forest, XGBoost, and creating solutions on Unix based systems with Pythonis necessary for success. Enabling secure healthcare delivery to tens of millions of people is mission-critical, andthis position will create and manage enterprise-class, unsupervised machine learned cyber threat and privacy use cases on an enterprise-class Splunk platform.
Job Summary:This senior level employee is primarily responsible for managing and directing the maintenance and protection of integrity and reliability of the security of data, systems and networks.
Essential Responsibilities:- Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
- Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; 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.
- Provides consultation in regular operations meeting with Cyber Risk Defense Center (CRDC) teams.
- Drives closed loop processes on security efforts by providing feedback to the TDA leads and/or leadership.
- Demonstrates a consulting value by recommending adjustments to the collection strategy for deltas in scope, size, or emerging security threats. 3-3
- Drives 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.
- Builds partnerships 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 related to highly complex security events.
- Leads the investigation and triage of a wide variety of security events across cyber security domains.
- Serves as a subject matter expert in performing complex data analyses to support security event management processes, including root cause analysis.
- Coordinates the response and resolution of high impact or critical cyber security incidents.
- Provides insight and influence in determining the strategic direction for the development and deployment of threat detection capabilities and/or incident response plans.
- Drives the development and implementation of incident detection and/or handling processes which may include containment, protection, and remediation activities.
Minimum Qualifications: - Minimum four (4) 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 ten (10) years experience in IT or a related field, including Minimum four (4) years in information security or network engineering. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
Additional Requirements:Preferred Qualifications:- Four (4) years experience in cyber security vulnerability, threat response, or investigation.
- Two (2) years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with executive leadership (e.g., Vice President level and above)
Primary Location: Colorado,Greenwood Village,Greenwood Plaza IT
Additional Locations: - Pleasanton
- Portland
- Pasadena
- Honolulu
- Atlanta
- Hyattsville
- Renton
- Richmond
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 - TRO CRDC - 9601
Pay Range: $169800 - $219670 / year Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.
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. Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.
Colorado Residents: In any materials you submit, you may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.
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