Cyber Risk Defense Consultant VI - (DFIR) Principal

Please note, this position is designated as flexible, which means the selected candidate may be required to report to the assigned office in Greensboro, NC at least part of the time each week.

Technical Summary

The Principal-level Incident Handler uses incident response, investigative, and forensics skills to respond to breaches implement containment measures, and investigate impacts. This includes appropriate data collection, preservation, mitigation, remediation requirements, and security improvement plans. The Incident Handler will utilize forensic best practices and provide chain of custody service for criminal investigations (e.g., employee situations, fraud, etc.).

Job Summary

This senior level employee is primarily responsible for managing and directing the maintenance and protection of integrity and reliability of the security of data, systems and networks.

Essential Responsibilities

• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Leads team in the proactive monitoring and/or response to known or emerging threats against the KP network.
• Effectively communicates investigative findings to non-technical audiences.
• Provides consultation in regular operations meeting with Cyber Risk Defense Center (CRDC) teams.
• Drives closed loop processes on security efforts by providing feedback to the TDA leads and/or leadership.
• Demonstrates a consulting value by recommending adjustments to the collection strategy for deltas in scope, size, or emerging security threats. 3-3
• Drives information fusion procedures across operations and engineering, including activities such as Use Case planning/development, Use Case quality assurance validation, and response procedure documentation.
• Serves as a liaison between stage teams and upper management by identifying issues, improvement areas, or security/architectural gaps and suggesting appropriate improvements.
• Drives the development of the CRDC intellectual capital by leading process or procedure improvements, consulting on brown bag training sessions, and leading the development of new training documents.
• Builds partnerships with the CRDC Policy Engineers and Remediation teams to contain identified issues and determine the best approach for improving security posture.
• Facilitates follow-up remediation design and review efforts related to highly complex security events.
• Leads the investigation and triage of a wide variety of security events across cyber security domains.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in performing complex data analyses to support security event management processes, including root cause analysis.
• Coordinates the response and resolution of high impact or critical cyber security incidents.
• Provides insight and influence in determining the strategic direction for the development and deployment of threat detection capabilities and/or incident response plans.
• Drives the development and implementation of incident detection and/or handling processes which may include containment, protection, and remediation activities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum four (4) years in an informal leadership role working with project or technical teams.
• Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Social Science, Mathematics, or related field and Minimum ten (10) years experience in IT or a related field, including Minimum four (4) years in information security or network engineering. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Additional Requirements

Preferred Qualifications:

• Four (4) years experience in cyber security vulnerability, threat response, or investigation.
• Two (2) years of work experience in a role requiring interaction with executive leadership (e.g., Vice President level and above)

Primary Location: North Carolina,Greensboro,Greensboro Administration

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Shift: Day

Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri

Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM

Working Hours End: 05:00 PM

Job Schedule: Full-time

Job Type: Standard

Worker Location: Flexible

Employee Status: Regular

Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-IT-01|NUE|Non Union Employee

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Department: KPIT ADMIN - TRO CRDC - 9601

Pay Range: $155800 - $201520 / year

Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data, internal alignment, and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.

Travel: No

Work Setting: Flexible

Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy.

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.