About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 107,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
Abbott serves the Irish market with a diverse range of healthcare products including diagnostics, medical devices and nutritionals products. In Ireland, Abbott employs over 4,000 people across nine sites. We have six manufacturing facilities located in Clonmel, Cootehill, Donegal, Longford and Sligo and a third-party manufacturing management operation in Sligo. Abbott has commercial, support operations and shared services in Dublin and Galway. We have been operating in Ireland since 1946.
ABBOTT BUSINESS TECHNOLOGY SERVICES AT CHERRYWOOD
Abbott Information Technology (IT) is responsible for delivering Information technology solutions and services to over 130+ countries globally.
The newly established hub will be a strategic location for technology talent, delivering regional programs and supporting global operations for critical services.
The Sr. Specialist Cybersecurity will conduct security monitoring, analysis, and incident response of the Abbott Product Technology environment. The Sr. Cybersecurity Analyst will be responsible for monitoring security activities of the critical security infrastructure at Abbott supporting customer facing products in EMEA. This role will work closely with the team in the USA and China.
This role will be based in our Business Technology Hub in Cherrywood.
Job Responsibilities:
Design and implement security monitoring capabilities within medical device server-side applications and related infrastructure through SIEM tools.
Monitors and responds to security events by taking necessary course of action such as identifying, containing, eradicating, recovering, extracting indicators, disseminating IOCs to supporting teams.
Analyzes network traffic and web application firewall events to determine issues, recommends safeguards to mitigate risk, and performs compliance reviews to ensure applications and servers are operating in accordance with established policies and procedures.
Develop and analyze intelligence data as it pertains to the security of the Product Technology environment.
Performs Incident Handling duties and coordinates with business and application owners to contain and remediate security incidents.
Works with security technologies and tools, such as SIEM (Splunk). Is exposed through logs/alerts to IDS/IPS, WAF, logical access controls, NGFW, and security operations management systems in order to support security across the enterprise.
Submits content tuning requests to improve alert fidelity and reduce false positives.
Automates manual tasks through technology integrations using APIs and scripting.
Performs project leadership tasks on select small scale security projects and supports new security project evaluations.
Provides assistance, guidance, support, & remediation of security architectural/technical issues to Product Technology environments.
Supports security audit information gathering, review, & remediation.
Maintains security infrastructure & cyber-security operations tools used to mitigate identified risks, to meet business objectives, audits and regulatory requirements.
Continually reviews and enhances existing knowledge of the security aspects of common product sets and technologies.
General Qualifications:
7+ years of experience working in an Information Security environment, preferably a regulated environment.
Relevant Bachelor’s degree
Tier 2/Tier 3 experience preferred
Experience in supporting cyber-security event/log analysis and/or incident response and conducting analysis of cyber-security events required.
Experience with SIEM systems, preferably Splunk. Familiar with Regex.
GCIH, GSEC, CISSP or equivalent certification preferred.
Experience with programming and scripting languages, preferably Python and PowerShell.
Exposed to vulnerability scanning and vulnerability management procedures.
Experience working in a broader enterprise/cross-division business unit model preferred.
Effective written and verbal communication skills; must be able to communicate to all levels of staff up to executive-level management, customers (internal and external), and vendors.
Must have strong time management skills and an ability to thrive in a high cadence operation.
Must be flexible with working hours during critical deliveries and operational issues.
Ability to train others and participate in knowledge sharing with other staff.
Proven ability to make sound decisions in a timely manner.
Strong problem-solving skills.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
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