Cyber Risk Defense Consultant V

About the Role

This senior-level position oversees the maintenance and protection of data, systems, and network security integrity and reliability. The role involves leading business-specific projects, ensuring adherence to policies, developing work plans, coordinating resources, and solving complex problems while promoting self-leadership and learning within the team.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee business-specific projects, ensuring adherence to procedures and policies while meeting deadlines.
• Develop work plans, processes, and methodologies to accomplish organizational goals.
• Coordinate and delegate resources, partnering internally and externally to drive effective business decisions.
• Monitor progress, escalate risks, and capitalize on improvement opportunities.
• Practice self-leadership and promote learning by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and mentoring junior team members.
• Lead proactive monitoring and response to known or emerging threats against the network.
• Communicate investigative findings effectively to non-technical audiences.
• Plan and facilitate regular operations meetings with Cyber Risk Defense Center (CRDC) teams.
• Support closed-loop processes on security efforts by providing feedback to leadership.
• Participate in information fusion procedures across operations and engineering, including use case planning, quality assurance validation, and response procedure documentation.
• Serve as a liaison between stage teams and upper management to identify issues, gaps, and suggest improvements.
• Drive the development of CRDC intellectual capital through process improvements, training sessions, and documentation.
• Partner with CRDC Policy Engineers and Remediation teams to contain issues and improve security posture.
• Facilitate follow-up remediation design and review efforts.
• Lead the investigation and triage of security events across multiple domains.
• Perform complex data analyses, including root cause analysis for security event management.
• Coordinate response and resolution of high-impact or critical cybersecurity incidents.
• Lead the deployment of threat detection capabilities and incident response plans, including after-hours support.
• Drive execution of incident detection and handling processes, including containment, protection, and remediation.

Requirements

• Minimum two (2) years in an informal leadership role working with project or technical teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Social Science, Mathematics, or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in IT or a related field, including at least two (2) years in information security or network engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

• One (1) year of supervisory experience.
• Two (2) years of experience interacting with senior leadership (e.g., Director level and above).

Schedule

• Full-time, standard worker schedule.
• 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday.
• Shift: Day (08:00 AM – 05:00 PM).

Pay

Pay range: $140,800 – $182,160 per year. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data, internal alignment, and a candidate's relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.

Work Setting

• Flexible worker location (must align with Kaiser Permanente’s Authorized States policy).
• Primary location: Greensboro, North Carolina.
• No travel required.