Senior Associate IS Security Engineer

Amgen • Thousand Oaks, CA

5d • Remote

About The Position

Join Amgen’s Mission of Serving Patients At Amgen, if you feel like you’re part of something bigger, it’s because you are. Our shared mission—to serve patients living with serious illnesses—drives all that we do. Since 1980, we’ve helped pioneer the world of biotech in our fight against the world’s toughest diseases. With our focus on four therapeutic areas –Oncology, Inflammation, General Medicine, and Rare Disease– we reach millions of patients each year. As a member of the Amgen team, you’ll help make a lasting impact on the lives of patients as we research, manufacture, and deliver innovative medicines to help people live longer, fuller happier lives. Our award-winning culture is collaborative, innovative, and science based. If you have a passion for challenges and the opportunities that lay within them, you’ll thrive as part of the Amgen team. Join us and transform the lives of patients while transforming your career. Senior Associate IS Security Engineer What you will do and what we expect of you Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will: Duties: Support Incident Response (IR) Operations and to ensure continuity of 24/7 security services. Execute the Global Incident Management Program in accordance with industry frameworks (e.g., SANS PICERL). Support Incident Response Commander and is directly responsible for IR activities. Revise and develop processes to strengthen Security Operations and Incident Response. Lead coordination efforts with necessary partners to better understand activity or actions and their impact to Amgen’s environment. Translate complex technical incidents into business language and be able to present the same to different audiences. Demonstrate, integrate, and collaborate on enhancing existing information security solutions and services to address any gaps or deficiencies in the Cybersecurity Operations Center (CSOC) to address security risks. Collaborate with other Information Security teams and provide CSOC insight to where limited information security controls or solutions are present. May Telecommute.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering Computer Science, Information Technology or related field & completion of a university-level course, research project, internship, thesis, or one year of experience in the following:
• Implement the basic security principles and concepts related to information systems;
• Conduct risk assessments and create related security plans;
• Security risk Management Methodologies to create policies and procedures to manage security risks;
• Windows Security, Reverse engineering and binary analysis;
• Viruses, worms, malware and malicious code;
• Botnets and Language security;
• Articulate components of Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources that require protection;
• Analyze and evaluate proposed and existing information security policies, practices and procedures in order to assess potential liabilities.

Responsibilities

• Support Incident Response (IR) Operations and to ensure continuity of 24/7 security services.
• Execute the Global Incident Management Program in accordance with industry frameworks (e.g., SANS PICERL).
• Support Incident Response Commander and is directly responsible for IR activities.
• Revise and develop processes to strengthen Security Operations and Incident Response.
• Lead coordination efforts with necessary partners to better understand activity or actions and their impact to Amgen’s environment.
• Translate complex technical incidents into business language and be able to present the same to different audiences.
• Demonstrate, integrate, and collaborate on enhancing existing information security solutions and services to address any gaps or deficiencies in the Cybersecurity Operations Center (CSOC) to address security risks.
• Collaborate with other Information Security teams and provide CSOC insight to where limited information security controls or solutions are present.

Benefits

• stock
• retirement
• medical
• life and disability insurance
• eligibility for an annual bonus
• A comprehensive employee benefits package, including a Retirement and Savings Plan with generous company contributions, group medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
• A discretionary annual bonus program, or for field sales representatives, a sales-based incentive plan
• Stock-based long-term incentives
• Award-winning time-off plans
• Flexible work models, including remote and hybrid work arrangements, where possible

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior