Information Security Sr Advisor (Threat Detection Engineer)

Location: This position will work a hybrid model (remote and office). The ideal candidate will live within 50 miles of one of our Elevance Health PulsePoint locations.

The Information Security Sr Advisor (Threat Detection Engineer) maintains enterprise information security policies, technical standards, guidelines, procedures, and other elements of an infrastructure necessary to support information security in compliance with established company policies, regulatory requirements, and generally accepted information security controls. Responsible for the delivery of strategic network security, access control and secure transaction and messaging solutions. Ensures security solutions involving the use of technologies are well-conceived, designed and implemented in compliance with enterprise standards.

How You Will Make An Impact:

• Research emerging threats and vulnerabilities, perform gap analysis, and curate threat detection Use Cases.

• Perform capability abstraction based on research of adversarial TTPs and build threat models and detectors,

• Collaborate with threat hunters in purple team exercises to mature the organization’s detection capabilities.

• Build and maintain threat detection library.

• Partner with key stakeholders to improve the security posture of the organization.

• Serve as a mentor and help develop talent pipeline.

• Ensure security solutions involving the use of technologies are well-conceived, designed and implemented in compliance with enterprise standards.

• Provides system and network architecture support for information and network security technologies; provides technical support to business and technology associates in risk assessments and implementation of appropriate information security procedures, standards and technologies.

• Maintains security incident response plans; represents major upgrades and business system replacements in change control.

• Oversees Enterprise mix of vendor services; recommends changes and updates to strategy; may act a key contact for setting vendor strategy; designs & engineers repetitive technical solutions based on business requirements and defined technology standards.

• Must be capable of providing top-tier support for 5 or more of the information security technology common body of knowledge skill sets: 1) Access Control, 2) Application Security, 3) Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning, 4) Cryptography, 5) Information Security and Risk Management 6) Legal, Regulations, 7) Compliance and Investigations, 8) Operations Security, 9) Physical (Environmental) Security, 10) Security Architecture and Design, 11) Telecommunications and Network Security.

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires BS/BA in information Technology or related field of study and a minimum of 8 years experience in systems administration and security aspects of information systems, access management and network security technologies, network communications, computer networking, telecommunications, systems development and management, hardware, software, data, and people; experience with multiple technical and business disciplines required.

• Requires broad-based experience to plan and design highly complex systems; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities & Experiences:

• Experience with multiple technical and business disciplines strongly preferred.

• Advanced programming skills and experience with incident response, offensive security, threat research, digital forensics, or application security preferred.

• Reverse engineering experience preferred.

• Security Certifications: OSCP, OSEP, GREM or other Offensive Security/ DFIR certifications are preferred.