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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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’ll also have access to:

Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year

An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

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.

The Opportunity

This position is based in our Lillehei, MN location, within the GIS-Global Information Services, Cyber Threat Engineering Team. The expectation is that the employee will work from this office five days a week.

As a Cyber Threat Engineer with a multi-area focus (detection, automation, integrations), you will have the opportunity to investigate the techniques and tactics employed by threat actors when compromising networks and systems. You will assist with cybersecurity network device deployments and other ongoing projects that help secure Abbott's systems and networks. It is essential for this role that the employee collaborates with the Cyber Threat Engineering team and Incident Response Team in the development of Splunk Risk Rules, Risk-Based Alerting (RBA), and creating detections or scripts used to detect threat activity within our global corporate and manufacturing networks. This role will provide administrative and technical guidance within the Cyber Threat Engineering team on all sensors and technologies and will support cross-functional departmental briefings as well as other briefings as deemed necessary.

What You’ll Work On

You will participate with Abbott interdepartmental and cross functional teams to understand the organizational cybersecurity sensors and cyber security posture.

You will provide guidance and input in the development of detections, automations, operational technologies in support of departmental responsibility areas. Investigate deployed sensors and detection and prevention capabilities, ensure we are fully capitalizing on our technological capabilities including but not limited to the available data and Application Programming Interface capabilities and automations.  

Assist in integration with XSOAR and AI and Machine learning and automation tools.

You will join the Cyber Threat Engineering team in supporting the Incident Response Team during significant cyber events within Abbott enterprise.

Additional Essential Role Areas

Ability to search and assist in building detections with Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) for multiple sensors (Firewall, IDS/IPS, EndPoint Protection, Proxy, and more) incorporating the MITRE ATT&CK Model. Partake in Star Custom Rule Creation (EDR) and or any other scripts.

Proactively research Digital Forensics, and Incident Response reports from a wide variety of sources. Build detections for cyber-based threats and risks, both current and future, creating and deploying detections as needed. Detections are not limited to Splunk or our EDR/XDR tools.

Automate manual tasks through technology integrations via scripting and orchestration of playbooks and XSoar platform.

Participate in cross-team functions and assist and advice team members and participants to achieve defined security goals and meet technical requirements in support of detailed implementation plans for security projects.

Develops response strategies and technical support documents, summaries, reports, presentations, and other designated products.

Support the advancement of Abbott’s Cybersecurity Operations program to ensure consistent detection, analysis, response, and monitoring of cybersecurity threats, including actors, campaigns, and vulnerabilities.

Required Qualifications

B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Expert level use of Splunk Search Processing Language and Splunk Risk Based Alerting

Preferred Qualifications

GIAC (GCIH, GSEC, GCFA, GREM), OSCP or equivalent certifications preferred.

5+ years of experience directly related to the area of incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, threat hunting, cyber threat intelligence, or content development/tuning.

Experience with programming and scripting languages, preferably Python and PowerShell.

Strong written and verbal communication skills; must be able to effectively communicate to all levels of staff up to executive-level management, customers (internal and external), and vendors.

Be available for on-call duty to assist in high-impact cybersecurity incidents.

Be driven for personal development through security conferences, Capture the Flags (CTF), lab time and research.

Be a team player committed to the mission and continuous development of the Cyber Threat Action Center, peers, and Abbott customers.

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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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The base pay for this position is $75,300.00 – $150,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.