Manufacturing Cybersecurity Sr Specialist

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to :

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

Our location in Colombia currently has an opportunity for a Manufacturing Cybersecurity Senior Analyst. The position has responsibility for running Abbott’s Manufacturing Cybersecurity Program and Manufacturing / Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity globally. This role is responsible for leading the implementation and support of security capabilities and technologies across manufacturing sites throughout Abbott globally, including ongoing updates and enhancements to the strategy.

What You’ll Do

• Maintain, tune, and support the Armis cybersecurity platform, including Platform Health, Asset Management, Vulnerability Management, and Threat Detection capabilities.
• Maintain and troubleshoot integrations between the Armis platform and other cybersecurity, network, and monitoring tools across the organization.
• Perform network‑related troubleshooting to support the availability, performance, and stability of the platform’s infrastructure.
• Monitor and respond to the team’s ticket queue, resolving routine operational issues and escalating complex problems as needed.
• Operate systems that detect new devices connecting to manufacturing networks, working with site personnel to authorize, classify, and inventory devices.
• Prepare and maintain asset inventory worksheets for manufacturing sites to assist with accurate identification and documentation of assets.
• Tune detection rules and alerts to improve identification of malicious activity while reducing false positives.
• Develop basic visualizations and reports to track platform health, asset coverage, and operational status.
• Speak to the breadth of an entire security program landscape at a senior level to Abbott business and manufacturing personnel.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field; or equivalent certifications.
• Minimum of 3 years of cybersecurity experience.
• Prior experience working with IT or OT tools with asset/network discovery features (e.g. PRTG, SolarWinds, Nagios, Lansweeper, Dragos, Nozomi, ClarOTy, Forescout, Armis, etc)
• Hands-on experience building, tuning, operating, & maintaining cybersecurity tools & capabilities
• Possess expertise in cybersecurity domains of Asset Inventory, Asset Discovery, or Asset Management
• Familiarity with using scripting languages (Python) to interface with cybersecurity tools and automate processes.
• Strong interpersonal skills to enable working with and communicating cybersecurity concepts to manufacturing sites.

• Experience with visualizing cybersecurity metrics and improvements (PowerBI)
• An understanding of IT protocols and network architecture to be able to troubleshoot and make informed designs pertaining to operations of the Armis cybersecurity platform.
• Experience working with the integration of cybersecurity and IT tools, including interfacing with RESTful APIs and equivalent structures.
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills to partner effectively at all levels and across multiple groups.

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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