At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.
A Day in the Life
The person in this role may work remotely within the US or onsite at a US-based Medtronic facility.
We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive. Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute. We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communications if we hope to have long-term sustainable impact.
Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world.
Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions – we’re a market leader and growing every day. You can be proud to be a part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation. You will be empowered to shape your own career. We encourage and support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Together, we can transform healthcare. Join us for a career in IT that changes lives. Medtronic is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture. Check out the accomplishments of our Women in IT group! http://bit.ly/MedtronicWomeninIT
CAREERS THAT CHANGE LIVES
As a Senior Principal Cybersecurity Specialist focused on Cyber Resilience within the CSIRT team, you will serve as a consensus builder, problem solver, and team leader. To be successful in this critical role, you must be equipped with a strong technical background and an innate ability to balance security requirements with business objectives. You will be an empowered member of the CISO during planning and design initiatives: you’ll ensure security measures are incorporated into the global strategy and promote clearly defined and comprehensive priorities.
KEY ACTIVITIES
- Provide thought leadership to a global team of analyst, engineers, threat hunters and incident responders.
- Develop strategic roadmaps to support detection, defense, and resiliency processes.
- Ensure timely response and proper acumen to any cyber event.
- Effectively work with and influence a global team from both technology and the business as a key leader of Global Cyber Information Security Office
- ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- You will serve as a technical lead in the design of systems and processes for a global cybersecurity operation to have full visibility across the globe on cyber threats and alerting. Building a global team is critical for 24x7 visibility.
- Manage detection and response capabilities including software, third party security operations center, and threat hunting. Lead the team responsible for security investigations.
- Develop and enhance an information security and cyber defense management framework.
- Identify and prepare response strategy for emerging technology such as deep fakes, and AI.
- Coordinate and manage external relationships as it relates to security assessment services as well as incident response requirements.
- Liaison with operations to identify business threats within the current business environment and on key business decisions including mergers and acquisitions.
- Will need to interact with a wide group of disciplines across the company such as risk and compliance team, corporate communications, legal, government affairs, etc.
- Serve as a technical and cyber security SME in the process of building a roadmap and future direction of team and technology closely mapped to Medtronic’s strategy and overall technology initiatives.
- Serve as an incident commander leading a SOC team while liaising with technology, legal, and business teams through security incidents.
- Create and communicate regular threat briefings, intelligence communications for all areas of the Enterprise.
- Experience on leveraging standards like MITRE and NIST frameworks in the develop and implementation of prevention, detection and incident response processes, standards and policies, to include the measurement of their effectiveness.
- Capable of developing long-term cybersecurity operations strategies aligned with business objectives and industry trends. This includes anticipating future threats and proactively implementing measures to address them.
- Train, motivate, mentor, lead, and retain quality security team members to ensure proper progression and skillset coverage is in place as the information security program grows and matures.
- Keep up to date with the latest security and technology developments. Research/evaluate emerging security threats and ways to manage them. Ensure monitoring for attacks, intrusions and unusual, unauthorized or illegal activity.
- Engage in 'ethical hacking', for example, simulating security breaches. Identify potential weaknesses and implement measures, such as firewalls and encryption. Monitor and respond to 'phishing' emails and 'pharming' activity.
- Partner with key leadership, process, and project team members to define security capability needs, assessment (maturity and value) and roadmap capability needs to enable business strategies.
- Maintain strong vendor relationships that support business and security objectives.
- Accountable for maintaining responsible budgetary in area of responsibility and contribute to Medtronic’s yearly budget goals.
- Contribute to and cultivate a culture which promotes the development of business capabilities, process excellence, and shared best practice execution.
- Gather, review, assess and partner to drive new ideas, initiatives and projects through innovation, demand and global portfolio processes.
- Foster a positive, engaging and challenging team-focused ‘global’ work environment to ensure high productivity, employee engagement, and optimal performance.
- Proactively engage with Medtronic business and Global IT partners to identify and define opportunities where the application of information technology can advance the strategic goals and objectives of Medtronic.
- Act as role model by “living” and demonstrating the Medtronic
- MUST HAVE (Minimum Qualifications)
- High school diploma (or equivalent) and 12+ years of experience
- OR
- Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience or advanced degree and 8+ years of experience
- NICE TO HAVE (Preferred Qualifications)
- Strongly Preferred:
- 10+ years of Information Security experience
- 10+ years of Defense and Technical Information Security experience as well as specialized training
- 8+ years of information security assessment, architecture, engineering, and operations
- 5+ years of experience aligned to a relevant architecture discipline (integrations, data, services, applications, infrastructure)
- 7+ years of experience and strong knowledge of Enterprise-class architecture concepts, definition, and creation
- 7+ years of experience in architecting and engineering cloud-based services / applications (SaaS), platforms (PaaS), and infrastructure (IaaS) within an Enterprise environment
- Specialized training on managing and communicating top secret/confidential information
- Certifications in information security, OSCP, CISSP, Ethical Hacking
- Advanced knowledge and training on the dark/black web activity
- High degree of ‘learning agility’ with the ability to readily consume and apply new information and concepts with developed analytical problem-solving skills.
- Strong business acumen, decision making, and influence skills across all levels of an organization.
- Experience in business capability and process modeling.
- Excellent leadership and teamwork skills
- Strong communication skills, including with employees, clients, senior management and vendors.
- Strong results orientation (driving to deadlines, financial targets, project goals, etc.)
- Ability to work collaboratively and partner with employees, leaders, clients, and vendors.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a global, virtual organization.
- Excellent presentation skills, including the ability to translate technical information into business terms (e.g., ability to explain complex technical solutions and architecture strategies to non-technical resources)
- Knowledge in user experience modeling, information design, and concept generation.
- Technology depth and credibility with technical staff.
- Work experience in the Medical Device Industry, or other regulated industry.
- Ability to mentor and develop business, architecture, and technical resources.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.
Benefits & Compensation
Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package
A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.
Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$160,800.00 - $241,200.00
This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).
The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).
About Medtronic
Medtronic benefits and compensation plans
We lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.
Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.
We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.
Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.
It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.
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