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Job Summary:
The University of Miami Health System (UHealth) IT Department is seeking an IT Security Specialist II to join its team. This role is primarily responsible for managing security training and awareness programs, providing technical support for the CISO office, and conducting risk management activities.
Responsibilities:
• Provide support to technical and non-technical teams on the security findings while maintaining industry best practice standards.
• Collect, analyze threat intelligence reports, and escalate depending on the risk level.
• Drafts comprehensive reports, including assessment-based findings and outcomes, and propositions for further system security enhancements.
• Performs vulnerability scans, assesses impact and risk, and owns remediation efforts end-to-end, ensuring timely resolution and alignment with security priorities.
• Monitors and analyzes emerging security threats and related vulnerabilities for the University's vulnerability management program.
• Develop and implement standard operating procedures to monitor vulnerabilities, including CISA advisories, vendor’s vulnerabilities disclosures, ISACs threat reports, and security vendors’ reports.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.
• Support the incident response process to the resolution of the incident.
• Ensures the delivery of threat intelligence collected from incident engagements to threat intelligence teams and content creators for the purpose of operationalizing.
• Maintain and enhance threat and vulnerability management program to discover and track current cyber-threats.
• Process and enrich information to ensure timely, actionable, high confidence IOCs are ingested and shared with key stakeholders.
• Produce actionable intelligence and proactively drive threat hunting, detection and prevention.
• Responsible for working within the security operations team and providing direct risk intelligence support in cross functional areas of business resilience, physical security, supply chain, business continuity, illegal trade, criminal investigations, and other initiatives.
• Stay informed and provide subject matter expertise regarding recent attacks / exploits - especially against the healthcare industry and relevant web applications, databases, and common desktop tools.
• Partner closely with other functions within the cybersecurity and IT Management teams and collaborate with the security operations center and Managed Security Services Provider to ensure consistent and quality Incident Response services are provided to the organization.
• Produce, maintain, and disseminate threat intelligence summaries.
• Be available for on-call duty to handle high-impact cybersecurity incidents.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or equivalent or a related field.
• 5-7+ years of progressive cybersecurity experience with 3+ years directly related to the area of threat and vulnerability management, threat intelligence, incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, or threat hunting.
• In-depth experience managing vulnerability management tools, e.g., Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7.
• Strong time management, presentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality, and high levels of integrity in the conduct of personal and professional affairs.
• Skill in collecting, organizing, and analyzing data.
• Ability to recognize, analyze, and solve a variety of problems.
• Ability to exercise sound judgment in making critical decisions.
• Excellent communication and technical writing skills.
• Strong critical thinking skills.
• Ability to work independently and/or in a collaborative environment.
• Ability to maintain effective interpersonal relationships.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form.
• Ability to identify and communicate best practices.
• Ability to understand, document, and analyze business processes from a control and operational perspective.
Preferred:
• A master’s degree is highly desirable.
• Preferred industry certifications including: CompTIA CySA+ (Cybersecurity Analyst), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or the equivalent, Cloud Computing Security Certification, GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH).
Company:
University of Miami is a public research university that provides undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs. Founded in 1925, the company is headquartered in Coral Gables, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.