Cyber Risk Defense Consultant VI - (DFIR) Principal

Job Type

Standard

Job Level

Individual Contributor

Travel

No

About the Role

The Principal-level Incident Handler responds to breaches, implements containment measures, and investigates impacts using incident response, investigative, and forensics skills. They manage and protect the integrity and reliability of security data, systems, and networks. Essential responsibilities include driving project execution, leading proactive monitoring, providing consultation, and facilitating remediation.

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.
• 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 meetings with CRDC teams.
• Drives closed loop processes on security efforts by providing feedback to the TDA leads and/or leadership.
• 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.

Requirements

• Minimum four (4) 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 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).

Qualifications

• Versatile
• Detail-oriented
• Proactive
• Positive
• Diplomatic
• Skilled Communicator

Skills

• Forensic Best Practices
• Chain of Custody Service
• Containment Measures
• Investigative Skills
• Information Fusion Procedures
• Subject Matter Expertise
• Root Cause Analysis
• High Impact Incident Response
• Strategic Direction Development
• Incident Detection Processes
• Remediation Activities

Benefits

Our compensation and benefits are designed to help you and your family stay healthy and thrive in and beyond work.

Culture

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.

Success Profile

Versatile
Detail-oriented
Proactive
Positive
Diplomatic
Skilled Communicator