Senior Principal Cybersecurity Specialist - Security Engineering

At Medtronic you can begin a life-long career of exploration and innovation, while helping champion healthcare access and equity for all. You’ll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation in a more connected, compassionate world.A Day in the LifeThe person in this role may work remotely within the US or onsite at a US-based Medtronic facility.We believe that when people from different cultures, genders, and points of view come together, innovation is the result —and everyone wins. Medtronic walks the walk, creating an inclusive culture where you can thrive. Our unwavering commitment to inclusion, diversity, and equity (ID&E) means zero barriers to opportunity within Medtronic and a culture where all employees belong, are respected, and feel valued for who they are and the life experiences they contribute. We know equity starts beyond our workplace, and we must play a role in addressing systemic inequities in our communications if we hope to have long-term sustainable impact.Anchored in our Mission, we continue to drive ID&E forward both to enhance the well-being of Medtronic employees and to accelerate innovation that brings our lifesaving technologies to more people in more places around the world.Bring your talents to an industry leader in medical technology and healthcare solutions – we’re a market leader and growing every day. You can be proud to be a part of technologies that are rooted in our long history of mission-driven innovation. You will be empowered to shape your own career. We encourage and support your growth with the training, mentorship, and guidance you need to own your future success. Together, we can transform healthcare. Join us for a career in IT that changes lives. Medtronic is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture. Check out the accomplishments of our Women in IT group! http://bit.ly/MedtronicWomeninITCAREERS THAT CHANGE LIVESAs a Senior Principal Cybersecurity Specialist on the Security Engineering team, you will serve as a key member of the Global Cyber Information Security strategic leadership team. You will as a consensus builder, problem solver, and team leader for the overall security organization.To be successful in this role, you must possess strong technical acumen and an innate ability to balance security requirements and business objectives. In your role as Senior Principal Cybersecurity Specialist, you will be empowered to represent the GCISO during planning and design initiatives to ensure security measures are incorporated into the global strategy. You’ll provide clearly defined strategies and priorities to maximize collaboration and consensus.Your key activities will include:• Develop, implement, and oversee the company's network security and security architecture, driving forward a cyber security roadmap (tools, technologies, methodologies) with the goal of reducing enterprise risk.• Drive a cross-organization security strategy, with a shift-left approach, to ensure security is effectively integrated from software design and through release.• Drive innovation in new methods and approaches to security architecture.Additional responsibilities may involve:• Lead at least one technical area with a security engineering focus, and drive impact within team, technologies, and projects across departments.• Responsible for the planning, design and build of security architectures; oversees the implementation of network and computer security and ensures compliance with corporate cybersecurity policies and procedures.• Performs security assessments of applications and systems using penetration and vulnerability testing and risk analysis.• Analytical mindset with a focus on data-driven decision-making, problem-solving, and continuous improvement• Working knowledge of full-stack security engineering including network security appliances such as SD-WAN, Firewalls, Proxy, IPS, End-Point Protection• Champion security engineering and operational excellence, establishing metrics and process for regular assessment and improvement.• Implement formal security governance process to set priorities, goals, efficiency and leverage of cyber resources.• Drive the design, implementation, and deployment of security systems aligned with business need.• Guide a team of experts in providing technical support and ensuring the reliable operation of cloud production environments.• Implement leading-edge security technologies to enhance infrastructure performance while maintaining comprehensive technical knowledge of software and infrastructure platforms.• Develop auditing methodologies and architecture to effectively manage and safeguard data in environments, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and industry best practices.• Serve as a subject matter expert, partnering with stakeholders across the enterprise to identify and address cybersecurity architecture and engineering needs and assessments.• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues escalated from staff members, while updating, writing, and maintaining documentation for the department• Lead system administration activities and develop best practices for systems analysis, including system requirements analysis, definition, and logical design.• Industry knowledge of security product market trends and directional awareness of MDT’s roadmap and technology development efforts• Demonstrated experience in working directly with customers at senior levels within an organization, as well as working with industry partners and alliances.• Technical Knowledge-Demonstrated knowledge of TCP/IP networking, routing, switching, wireless, WAN, and firewall configuration and management. Experience with Cisco firewalls and/or Palo Alto Networks firewalls is required. Ability to read network captures.• Experience working in large complex environments. Familiarity with enterprise management tools- Splunk, Zscaler, CrowdStrike, Proofpoint, Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Infoblox, CrowdStrike• Primary Security Liaison with Medtronic’s operations team to review network architecture and foundational security requirements.• Provide governance requirements for day-to-day operations on VPN, IPS, DNS, network segmentation.• Technical expertise in OT technology and architecture design• Recruit, train, motivate, mentor, lead, and retain quality security team members to ensure proper progression and skillset coverage is in place as the information security program grows and matures.• Keep up to date with the latest security and technology developments.Research/evaluate emerging security threats and ways to manage them.Ensure monitoring for attacks, intrusions and unusual, unauthorized or illegal activity.• Partner with key leadership, process, and project team members to define security capability needs, assessment (maturity and value) and roadmap capability needs to enable business strategies.• Maintain strong vendor relationships that support business and security objectives.• Accountable for maintaining responsible budgetary in area of responsibility.• Evaluate team performance and manage equitable promotional opportunities for cloud security team.• Contribute to and cultivate a culture which promotes the development of business capabilities, process excellence, and shared best practice execution.• Gather, review, assess and partner to drive new ideas, initiatives and projects through innovation, demand and global portfolio processes.• Foster a positive, engaging and challenging team-focused ‘global’ work environment to ensure high productivity, employee engagement, and optimal performance.• Proactively engage with Medtronic business and Global IT partners to identify and define opportunities where the application of information technology can advance the strategic goals and objectives of Medtronic.• Act as role model by “living” and demonstrating the MedtronicMUST HAVE (Minimum Qualifications)• High school diploma (or equivalent) and 12+ years of experienceOR• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience or advanced degree and 8+ years of experienceNICE TO HAVE (Preferred Qualifications)• 10+ years of Technical Engineering and/or Information Security experience• 10+ years of relevant Defense and Technical Information Security Technology experience and additional specialized training• 8+ years of information security assessment, architecture, engineering, and operations• 5+ years of experience aligned to a relevant architecture discipline (integrations, data, services, applications, infrastructure)• 7+ years of experience and strong knowledge of Enterprise-class architecture concepts, definition, and creation• Specialized training on managing and communicating top secret/confidential informationPhysical Job RequirementsThe above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.The physical demands described within the Responsibilities section of this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. For Office Roles: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to be independently mobile. The employee is also required to interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers. Contact your manager or local HR to understand the Work Conditions and Physical requirements that may be specific to each role.Benefits & CompensationMedtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits PackageA commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values. We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help to create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every career and life stage.Salary ranges for U.S (excl. PR) locations (USD):$160,800.00 - $241,200.00This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).The base salary range is applicable across the United States, excluding Puerto Rico and specific locations in California. The offered rate complies with federal and local regulations and may vary based on factors such as experience, certification/education, market conditions, and location. Compensation and benefits information pertains solely to candidates hired within the United States (local market compensation and benefits will apply for others).Medtronic benefits and compensation plansAbout MedtronicWe lead global healthcare technology and boldly attack the most challenging health problems facing humanity by searching out and finding solutions.Our Mission — to alleviate pain, restore health, and extend life — unites a global team of 90,000+ passionate people.We are engineers at heart— putting ambitious ideas to work to generate real solutions for real people. From the R&D lab, to the factory floor, to the conference room, every one of us experiments, creates, builds, improves and solves. We have the talent, diverse perspectives, and guts to engineer the extraordinary.Learn more about our business, mission, and our commitment to diversity here.It is the policy of Medtronic to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Medtronic will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.At Medtronic, most positions are posted on our career site for 3-7 days.