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Cyber Risk Defense Consultant V

Kaiser PermanenteGreensboro, NC🇺🇸United StatesPosted 23 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

Elevate your career as a Cyber Risk Defense Consultant at Kaiser Permanente, where you'll safeguard vital systems and gain invaluable experience in a leading healthcare organization. This hybrid role offers you the chance to develop your leadership skills, mentor others, and make a significant impact on a nationwide scale. You'll thrive here if you possess deep expertise in cybersecurity and a passion for proactive defense, making this an exceptional opportunity to grow within a reputable company.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Job Summary:

This senior level employee is primarily responsible for overseeing the maintenance and protection of integrity and reliability of the security of data, systems and networks.


Essential Responsibilities:

  • Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies; developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals; partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results; recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
  • Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; influencing team members within assigned unit; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; 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.
  • Plans and facilitates regular operations meeting with Cyber Risk Defense Center (CRDC) teams.
  • Supports closed loop processes on security efforts by providing feedback to the TDA leads and/or leadership.
  • Participates in 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.
  • Partners 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.
  • Leads the investigation and triage of security events across multiple domains.
  • Leads complex data analyses in support of security event management processes, including root cause analysis.
  • Coordinates the response and resolution of high impact or critical cyber security incidents.
  • Leads the deployment of threat detection capabilities and/or incident response plans which may include after-hours support and coordination among responsible teams.
  • Drives the execution of incident detection and/or handling processes which may include containment, protection, and remediation activities.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Minimum two (2) years in an informal leadership role working with project or technical teams.
  • Bachelors degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Social Science, Mathematics, or related field and Minimum eight (8) years experience in IT or a related field, including Minimum two (2) years in information security or network engineering. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Additional Requirements:

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