Cyber Risk Defense, Splunk Development Principal

Kaiser Permanente is expanding our Cyber Risk Defense program and seeking a highly skilled individual which can facilitate department missions in the areas of data science and python development with deep expertise in the Splunk Enterprise platform. This unique role focuses on supporting the mission of Cyber Security and is a technical expert in developing advanced machine learning solutions to enhance cyber threat, privacy, and compliance across clinical systems. As the position requires significant individual contributions, the successful candidate will present with qualifications commensurate with the expert-level position, demonstrate knowledge of clinical systems/workflows, and possess hands-on experience building and maintaining anomaly detection models. Experience with machine-learning frameworks/algorithms like Random Forest, XGBoost, and creating solutions on Unix based systems with Python is necessary for success. Enabling secure healthcare delivery to tens of millions of people is mission-critical, and this position will create and manage enterprise-class, unsupervised machine learned cyber threat and privacy use cases on an enterprise-class Splunk platform. 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., Working closely with partners throughout Kaiser Permanente, as well as other organizations, we drive security innovation that enables health care delivery.

• Versatile
• Detail-oriented
• Proactive
• Positive
• Diplomatic
• Skilled Communicator, * 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., * 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)

Looking for the future of health care cyber security? You'll find it at the Kaiser Permanente Cyber Risk Defense Center (CRDC). We provide around-the-clock monitoring, intelligence, and incident response that help identify potential threats, assess the risk, and continually evolve our detection and response capabilities. Our goal is simple - to keep Kaiser Permanente's operations running while protecting the information of our members, care teams, brokers, and employees. Our security teams provide continuous monitoring, threat intelligence, and incident response to identify potential threats, assess the risk, and continually evolve detection and response capabilities. We work closely with organizations and business partners throughout Kaiser Permanente, as well as external vendors and alliance business partners, to drive security innovation that enables health care delivery for the next generation. Members of the Kaiser Permanente Cyber team work closely with engineers, developers, and leadership to operate and improve our cyber capabilities. We highly value collaboration and work to deliver cyber security best practices, operational capabilities, all in a cross functional, agile environment. Join us for the opportunity to define what cyber security looks like in digital health and make an impact along the way., The Kaiser Permanente Cyber experience is people-centric. Our cyber team secures and defends a digital ecosystem that delivers care to more than 12 million members and their families. We keep our operations running while protecting the information of our members, care teams, brokers, and employees. Cyber team members are agile, have a sharp attention to detail, and apply creative, out-of-the-box thinking.