Cybersecurity Threat Response Engineer III

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Hybrid

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In a world that depends on data, The Cybersecurity Threat Response Engineer III is a member of Premera’s Threat Intelligence and Response Team, reporting to the Manager of Response. This Engineer is responsible for protecting data, identifying potential threats, conducting investigations into cyber threats and performing incident response. By using critical thinking skills and forensic analysis you will ensure that cyber security threats are proactively stopped from the Premera network.

These threats include actors from Nation State, Cyber‑criminal organizations, and Insider Threats. This position is instrumental in the overall Security Awareness Program where written communication and public speaking to all employees is common.

• Are you motivated to find the threat in the haystack? Are you passionate about making Healthcare safer?
• Do you want to be part of an elite team that hunts and defends Cyber threats
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• Hungry to become a subject matter expert in Cyber Security Forensic Analysis and Threat Response?
• Our unique combination of medical records and financial data make us an attractive target for Cyber Criminals.

If any of the above describe your passion for preventing cyber threats, and you want to become a Cyber Security Subject Matter Expert, this might be the role for you!!

• Use your innate hunting and analysis skills to conduct investigations into security threats.
• Protect Premera data from threat actors looking to gain access to sensitive personal and financial data in a structured team environment.
• Identify the numerous attacks launched daily to gain access to Premera data.
• Personally engineer solutions that will prevent damaging cyber threats that cost organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.
• Applies advanced understanding of HITRUST engineering and controls standards.
• Exhibit a passion and tenacity about hunting and preventing cyber threats.

• Your dedication to the focus on preventing Cyber threats.
• Your passion for hunting and investigating Cyber threats.
• Your understanding that Cyber threats don’t happen between normal business hours.
• Your natural curiosity around threat analysis and investigation.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or Business Administration or four (4) years’ experience. (REQUIRED)
• Five (5) years’ experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting networked computer systems, including: systems integration, hardware requirements and network design planning; vendor negotiations for hardware and software; which must include Three (3) years’ experience with secure network and systems architecture, design and implementation, intrusion detection, defense and incident response, security configuration management, access controls design and implementation and security policy and standards development.
  
  (REQUIRED)
• AI Experience strongly preferred - As organizations face significant exposure to AI‑driven threat, this position needs a creative responder that will leverage AI to increase speed and efficiency of our response capabilities.
• Previous incident response experience is strongly preferred and critical to this role.

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