Cyber Defense Specialist, Experienced

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

Rancho Cordova, CA

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Antivirus, Applications Security, Automation, Computer Security, Customer/Consumer Behavior, Hunting, Identity Data Management, Incident Response, Information/Data Security (InfoSec), Internet Security, Intrusion Detection Systems, Malware, NMap, Network Monitoring, Network Security, Operations Management, Phishing, Security Attacks, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Monitoring, Social Engineering, Team Player, Technical Leadership, Web Analytics, Wireshark (Ethereal)
LOCATION
Rancho Cordova, CA
POSTED
8 days ago

Your Role

The Information Security team is looking for a certified security professional to join our fast paced, collaborative, and diverse team of talent. Our mission is to provide operationally excellent next-generation information security event monitoring, threat hunting, and incident response services that protect Blue Shield from adverse cyber events. The Cyber Defense Specialist, Experienced will report to the Senior Manager of Information Security Operations. In this role you will work with a high-functioning 24/7/365 team utilizing industry leading technology to identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover from adversary attacks.

Your Knowledge and Experience

  • Requires practical knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
  • Typically, requires a college degree or equivalent experience and 3 years of prior relevant experience.
  • Requires security industry certification.
  • Security event monitoring and incident response.
  • Security Information Event Management (SIEM) searching.
  • Intrusion detection and network tools; Wireshark, Nmap.
  • Anti-virus and malware detection.
  • Social engineering and phishing detection.
  • Identity & Access Management.

Hybrid

This role requires employees to be in - office based on our hybrid workplace model, balancing purposeful in - person collaboration with flexibility. For most teams, this means coming into the office two days each week.

Employees living more than 50 miles from an office location will work with their manager to determine in-office time based on business need.

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Your Work

In this role, you will:

  • Provide network intrusion monitoring and response.
  • Perform endpoint detection and response (EDR).
  • Analyze application and web security events.
  • Interpret logs to identify and respond to indicators of compromise (IOCs) and threats including User and Event Behavioral Analytics (UEBA) using a security information and event management (SIEM) environment.
  • Perform incident response containment.
  • Utilize Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) of information security incidents.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

  • Provide network intrusion monitoring and response.
  • Perform endpoint detection and response (EDR).
  • Analyze application and web security events.
  • Interpret logs to identify and respond to indicators of compromise (IOCs) and threats including User and Event Behavioral Analytics (UEBA) using a security information and event management (SIEM) environment.
  • Perform incident response containment.
  • Utilize Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) of information security incidents.

About the Company

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Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association

At the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA), we provide business strategy, technical support and consulting expertise to 36 Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies across the nation, employing more than 1,000 of the best strategic thinkers in the industry. We are a Brand manager that sets quality control standards for the 36 independent companies that use the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Brands, and we serve as a trade association that represents these Blue companies. It is through our involvement that the Blues companies share a united vision and strategy while also benefiting from the local strength of all member companies.
COMPANY SIZE
2,000 to 2,499 employees
INDUSTRY
Insurance
WEBSITE
https://www.bcbs.com/about-us/careers