Cybersecurity Engineer

Piedmont HealthCare PA•Statesville, NC

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Cybersecurity Engineer promotes an innovative, forward-thinking culture by developing, implementing, and monitoring a comprehensive enterprise cybersecurity program. The role is responsible for cyber incident response, monitoring, threat assessment and mitigation, and the design and implementation of cyber systems architecture, while advancing enterprise cybersecurity capabilities. The position reports to the Cybersecurity Manager and does not supervise others. The engineer supports systems and applications of medium to high complexity, helping ensure their control, integrity, security, and accessibility. The role works with stakeholders, IT groups, users, and vendors on planning, business requirements, solution integration, system changes, utilization forecasts, reviews, and problem resolution. It also develops alerts and monitoring techniques, reviews security reports, documents cybersecurity solutions, manages assigned support tickets, and helps ensure adherence to security requirements. Most work takes place in an office setting, computer facility, or clinical office. Local travel is required, and minimal exposure to communicable diseases is possible. The job may involve prolonged standing or sitting, computer input, responding to phone questions, bending, stooping, and twisting. Occasional stress from working with tense users and multiple tasks is likely.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Business Systems, or a healthcare-related field with a significant technical component; significant and relevant work experience and/or technical certification may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis.
At least 5 years of relevant experience deploying and/or administering cybersecurity solutions.
Strong knowledge of and experience with multiple enterprise security solutions, including SIEM, email gateways, firewalls, multi-factor authentication, IDS, and IPS.
Working knowledge of HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules.
Excellent customer service skills.
Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
Good written and verbal communication skills.
Good project management skills.
Ability to build relationships and trust with internal customers.
Expected to follow PHC policies relating to privacy and cybersecurity and serve as a resource for other PHC team members on privacy and cybersecurity best practices.

Nice To Haves

Experience deploying and/or administering cybersecurity solutions in a clinical setting, preferably in a large ambulatory physician practice.
Relevant technical certifications.

Responsibilities

Respond to and investigate security alerts from configured alert systems.
Support medium- to high-complexity systems and applications with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity, security, and accessibility.
Participate in short- and long-term planning with stakeholders and IT groups, and attend business requirement meetings as necessary.
Integrate solutions with other applications and platforms according to engineering requirements.
Develop alerts and monitoring techniques based on engineering requirements.
Coordinate changes across multiple systems.
Forecast utilization patterns and identify necessary modifications and upgrades.
Review security reports and periodically review systems with users and vendors.
Coordinate problem resolution across functional areas and provide subject matter expertise to diagnose and resolve problems.
Report security issues when appropriate and gather required information.
Recommend security improvements and participate in investigations as needed.
Ensure adherence to security requirements.
Assist in developing documentation for new cybersecurity solutions and ensure documentation is maintained.
Communicate, consult, and coordinate across stakeholder groups as needed.
Respond to and manage tickets assigned through the trouble-ticketing/request system.
Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.