Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Job Title:

Staff Cybersecurity Architect

As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of .

• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.

• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This Staff Cybersecurity Architect position is based in Sylmar, CA location. This role may be hired remotely. Staff Cybersecurity Architect will improve the security posture of Abbott Cardiac Rhythm Management products and product development infrastructure, through threat modeling, cybersecurity design and implementation, risk assessment and process improvement activities. Performs complex and specialized cybersecurity activities working within and across project teams, and in consultation with other cross functional team members.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Demonstrates expert knowledge and proficiency in the complete cybersecurity development process; leads and is accountable for the software architecture and interfaces for all features of a subsystem.

• Defines cybersecurity design architecture for a subsystem, identifying features, components and their internal and external interactions.

• Defines detailed threat models based on system architectures and assesses risk to patient safety and privacy and Abbott business

• Defines cybersecurity risks for third party software component/integration strategy including assessment of cryptography

• Defines cybersecurity design patterns, coding styles, SAST and DAST strategies for software development environment, unit testing environment, integration testing environment and performance testing environment for all features in a subsystem.

• Defines the future state roadmap of CI/CD, third party component management, and cybersecurity design for a subsystem.

• Defines system wide architecture for CI/CD, deployment, networking, and security.

• Collaborates in the architecture definition for test automation, hardware and external interface simulation.

• Defines system wide hardware and external interface simulation architecture.

• Provides overall technical leadership support in use case analysis, feature definition, user needs and functional and non-functional requirements.

• Defines comprehensive security design architecture for a subsystem.

• Author’s architecture description document, and high-level design documents.

• This is a non-supervisory position.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree Software Engineering, Computer Science or related engineering field or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

Minimum 10 years:

• Security design for cloud and/or mobile and/or embedded systems/IOT with strong knowledge of cryptographic primitives

• Experience in health care, aerospace, defense (DoD, NSA etc.) or other regulated sectors (Optional)

Preferred

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

• As an alternative to CISSP, other professional security certification such as CISM, CSA, CEH or similar.

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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The salary for this role is between $118,100 – $236,100