JOB DESCRIPTION

The Expert Cyber Risk Management Engineer will be responsible for the planning, development, and implementation of enterprise vulnerability management solutions to address the business's current and emerging security needs. This role requires the proactive identification and solutioning of some of the most complex enterprise-scale vulnerability management and information security problems. The Expert Cyber Risk Management Engineer will assist in proactively designing, implementing, and maintaining a world-class vulnerability management program. Critical needs include strategic planning, capability assessment, process development and refinement, technology capability analysis, and process support tool implementation, configuration, continuous improvement, and maintenance.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Vulnerability Management Strategic Planning, Design & Implementation

• Performs vulnerability management capability assessments, process development and refinement activities, technology capability assessments, and solution design and implementation projects that ensure the security of the enterprise environment.
• Leads strategic planning activities informed by capability assessments which holistically address current and future maturity states of vulnerability management capabilities. Builds strong narratives to drive decision-making and educates leadership stakeholders on proposed plans.
• Serves as a security expert in vulnerability management solutioning, including vulnerability identification, assessment, and validation for CI/CD pipelines, cloud environments, and infrastructure.
• Engages with enterprise architects, security specialists, technology engineers, and other functional area specialists to ensure that enterprise technologies and security solutions are correctly configured and deployed to sufficiently mitigate identified risks and meet requirements for the enterprise, customers, partners, and vendors.
• Exercises thought leadership in the creation and maintenance of vulnerability management capabilities, processes, procedures, technologies, and technical capability requirements.

Vulnerability Management Operations

• Creates and maintains a view of IT assets, related attack surfaces, and emerging vulnerabilities to illustrate the flow of data and associated security threats.
• Manages the entire lifecycle of vulnerabilities from discovery, triage, advising, remediation, and validation.
• Serves as a cybersecurity subject matter expert, assessing the business impact of cybersecurity risks to the enterprise and identifying options and recommendations for mitigating those risks.
• Serves as an expert in platform, application, storage, network, virtualization, cloud, and mobile security best practices.
• Develops leadership-level communications, including board of director and executive metrics, business cases, standards, policies, procedures, architecture design documents, etc.

Collaboration

• Communicates and interacts effectively with leadership, management, co-workers, internal and external customers, and partners. Communicates strategic planning narratives and design and implementation plans to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Focuses on building stakeholder partnerships and offers support to other contributors in the information technology organization.
• Educates, coaches, and mentors junior team members, and expands the team's overall skillsets.

QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Education and Experience

• 7+ w/Bachelor's degree

Additional Experience and Education

• 8+ years of combined hands-on cybersecurity and vulnerability management development and implementation work. Experience with a broad exposure to cloud, infrastructure, network, and multi-platform environments.
• 2+ years of experience in cybersecurity solution engineering or security service delivery.
• 2+ years of leadership experience with planning and managing cybersecurity implementations and/or leading a team of technical resources. This role will require the management of several (2 to 4) concurrent large-scale vulnerability management capability development projects.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Required

• A strong, complete, and working understanding of Microsoft Azure cloud and foundational cloud concepts.
• A robust understanding of contemporary security theory and application (including the vulnerability lifecycle and scanning methodologies (SAST, DAST, IAST, RASP) exploitation techniques and attack vectors).
• Strong understanding of systems development lifecycle to lead multifunctional projects or initiatives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (including technical writing).
• Must be able to communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences effectively and must communicate well with people in various positions, roles, and levels
• Ability to develop executive communications and interact with senior leadership.
• Strong strategic planning, maturity assessment, analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to examine issues both strategically and analytically.
• Adaptive and demonstrated ability to learn quickly.
• Ability to interact well with co-workers and outside contacts.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
• Ability to work on multiple, simultaneous initiatives and prioritize workload to meet commitments.
• Self-motivated with a strong sense of urgency.
• History of and commitment to ethical behavior.

Preferred

• A strong, complete, and working understanding of key programming languages and frameworks (e.g., Java, Python, JSP, PHP, Node.js, etc.)
• Externally recognized information security industry thought leadership and innovation accomplishments.
• Foundational knowledge of data analytics and visualization tools (e.g., Splunk, Tableau).
• Knowledge of laws, regulations, and standards relevant to the US Healthcare industry.

Base Pay Information

The national base pay range is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental's assessment of the candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity. $133,300 - $260,000

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Rewards to make you smile! We don't just want to make our customers happy - we want to give our employees a reason to smile, too. Delta Dental's comprehensive benefits package includes:

• Generous paid time off plus 12 holidays and your birthday off!
• Low-cost premium medical insurance options
• 100% paid dental and vision insurance
• Generous 401(k) matching and flat contribution
• Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities, including 16 paid volunteer hours annually
• Employee LiveWell program, focusing on overall employee well-being
• Fertility and diabetes benefits
• Employee discount program: AT&T/Verizon, entertainment, travel, and more!
• Culture of learning: career development and tuition reimbursement
• Career growth: we love promoting from within

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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ABOUT THE TEAM

At Delta Dental, our success is only as strong as the people who execute it! We take enormous pride in being the nation's most recognized and widely-used provider of dental insurance - and we've come this far by living our core values of innovation, excellence, service and trust. Our vision is to motivate and empower every employee so that we're all inspired to take exceptional care of our customers, providers and ourselves. We believe in integrity, accountability, collaboration, and giving every employee equitable opportunity for their voice to be heard and development to be fostered.

If you're excited about the prospect of transforming the future of health care and growing in your career, join our smile revolution!

To see some of the smiling faces behind Delta Dental and to learn more about what our values and culture look like in action, connect with us on social media: Delta Dental Ins. on Facebook and Instagram, #LifeatDDins on Facebook and Instagram, Delta Dental Ins. on Twitter and Delta Dental Ins. on LinkedIn.

We are part of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of companies that provides dental coverage to 74 million people in the U.S. Delta Dental of California, Delta Dental of New York, Inc., Delta Dental of Pennsylvania and Delta Dental Insurance Company, together with our affiliate companies, form one of the nation's largest dental benefits delivery systems, covering 33 million enrollees. All of our companies are members, or affiliates of members, of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of 39 Delta Dental companies throughout the country.

Delta Dental is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace for all employees. Applicants will not be discriminated against because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender or identity expression, age, disability, marital status, medical status, veteran status or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. In addition to federal law requirements, Delta Dental complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Unfortunately, our Delta Dental Enterprise is unable to hire individuals residing in Alaska, North Dakota, Nebraska, Hawaii, Oklahoma, Vermont, Maine, West Virginia, New Hampshire, Wyoming, Puerto Rico or other US Territories at this time.

Proof of eligibility to work in the United States must be provided if selected for hire.

Delta Dental* has enacted a COVID-19 vaccination policy to protect all employees and the communities we serve due to the ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Accordingly, we require all employees to be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Are you able to comply with our policy of being fully vaccinated by your start date if an offer is made or have a medical or sincerely held religious exemption for receiving a COVID-19 vaccine? Failure to comply with our policy and submit proof of compliance or receive approval for a valid medical or sincerely held religious belief exemption prior to your start date will nullify any offer of employment extended to you.

• Delta Dental includes: Delta Dental of California, Delta Dental Insurance Company, Delta Dental of Pennsylvania, and Delta Dental of New York