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Providence Principal Security Engineer in Beaverton, Oregon

Description:

Providence is calling a Principal Security Engineer to one of our locations in Anaheim or Irvine CA, Portland, OR, or in the Seattle area.

We are seeking a highly motivated Principal Security Engineer with a passion for Authentication and Identity technologies to join our team supporting Enterprise Information Security (EIS). The ideal candidate is a thought leader in identity technologies and have experience designing and implementing enterprise-wide identity solutions. The role is critical for Providence’s digital transformation and modernization efforts which will lead the Healthcare industry by providing the optimal patient and caregiver experience through modern technology. A successful engineer in this role will maintain awareness of new security and authentication trends, research, evaluate, design and recommend technical security solutions for the enterprise. They will provide technical security assessment support; developing, maintaining, and monitoring an effective Information Security program to provide logical and physical protection of the company's technical resources. Enterprise accountabilities include executing security engineering practices for IS projects; conduct product research and participate in the selection process of technologies to support security requirements; establish technical security guidance, provisioning of access by ensuring the proper access to all types of enterprise applications and data communications systems and services for each customer.

Security Engineers are responsible for researching, evaluating, and designing technical security solutions for the enterprise in support of the Enterprise Information Security (EIS) strategies; providing technical security assessment support; developing, maintaining, and monitoring an effective Information Security program to provide logical and physical protection of the company's technical resources. Enterprise accountabilities include executing security engineering practices for IS projects; conduct product research and participate in the selection process of technologies to support security requirements; establish technical security guidance, provisioning of access by ensuring the proper access to all types of enterprise applications and data communications systems and services for each customer.

In this position you will have the following responsibilities:

  • Partners with Engineering, Development, QA, and Program/Project Management peers to translate caregiver, business and technical requirements into components of a service architecture, ensuring that the service will meet compliance and operability standards, and KPIs around resilience, availability, quality, cost, and caregiver expectations

  • Creates and identifies standards and best practices and is responsible for building and implementing required architecture in partnership with other IS engineering teams

  • Designs components of a service delivery system that defines tools, hardware, processes, role assignments, dependencies, and documentation, resulting in a complete system that supports service delivery and meets KPIs. Creates detailed project plans including milestones, testing, documentation, and implementation

  • Communicates with stakeholders and applies advanced diagnostic expertise to restore service with minimal disruption to the caregiver and business. During service disruptions and degradations, owns the problem, solving it once and for all. Extrapolates from past experiences and delivers innovations

  • Actively takes part in disaster recovery drills. Participates as needed in incident response management during non-working hours

  • Owns the design, implementation, testing, and management of alerting and telemetry systems, and disaster recovery and business continuity plans in partnership with other engineering teams to support 24x7 uptime goals. Makes recommendations on capacity requirements, based on service KPIs, evolving caregiver usage scenarios, and proposed new feature releases to enable the team to create a viable cost model

  • Works with stakeholders to create a cost model and reporting system that enables teams to forecast, track, and report on the costs generated by business and usage scenarios

  • Maximizes the effectiveness of financial resources

  • Uses expertise to identify potential platform, system, deployment, security and environmental issues prior to service and solution releases, ensuring an on-time release with measurable improvement in KPIs

  • Develops and maintains effective processes to automate tasks and ensure compliance with security policies and drives the adoption of a solution across multiple service teams

  • Owns service and infrastructure lifecycle planning to ensure critical software and hardware components are kept current

  • Responsible for the information management of applications, device, and infrastructure data inside the CMDB (Configuration Management Database) and associated system.

  • Establishes service metrics, based on a deep understanding of the end-to-end service, and works with partner teams to analyze data, and identify and drive service improvements

  • Regularly analyzes operational cost data, identifies cost-saving efficiencies, and influences the business to adopt these efficiencies across the service team

  • Mentor and be a technical leader to less experienced team members, improving their skills, their knowledge of our systems and their ability to get things done

  • Acts as the group’s thought leader on new technologies and their adoption. Creates and identifies standards and best practices, and drives the adoption of them by IS. Advocates the IS roadmap and vision

  • Focus on driving for results, accountability, and strategic thinking

Qualifications:

Required qualifications for this position include:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or equivalent education/experience

  • 8 years related experience

  • Experience designing security controls and countermeasures for operating systems, databases, applications, Web services, user devices, and wireless networks

  • Experience in a Healthcare environment

  • CISSP, CEH, or equivalent

Preferred qualifications for this position include:

  • Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or equivalent education/experience

  • 8-12 years Related experience

  • Experience in a Healthcare environment

  • Deep and intimate knowledge of the Identity and Access domain including the areas of architecture design, engineering, and operations of complex authentication systems

  • Experience researching, evaluating, and designing technical security solutions

  • Experience leading and mentoring technical teams

  • Thought leader on new technologies and their adoption

  • Creates and identifies standards, best practices and contributes to strategy, vision and roadmaps

  • Experience designing and implementing Enterprise wide -authentication and identity solutions

  • Experience with Azure AD/Active Directory Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Application Registration, Passwordless, Identity Federation, Automation

  • Experience with Imprivata appliances, agents, authenticators, and systems

  • Experience with a large Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems

  • Experience with automation using PowerShell or Python

  • Excellent troubleshooting and root cause diagnosis skills

  • Strong writing and communication skills

  • Experience creating and maintain accurate and detailed guidelines and procedures

  • Experience with Agile Scrum Methodology and Azure DevOps

  • Certifications: CISSP, CEH, or equivalent. Azure AD, Imprivata

Our best-in-class benefits are uniquely designed to support you and your family in staying well, growing professionally and achieving financial security. We take care of you, so you can focus on delivering our Mission of caring for everyone, especially the most vulnerable in our communities.

About the department you will serve.

Providence Strategic and Management Services provides a variety of functional and system support services for all eight regions of Providence St. Joseph health from Alaska to California. We are focused on supporting our Mission by delivering a robust foundation of services and sharing of specialized expertise.

We offer a full comprehensive range of benefits — see our website for details —http://www.providenceiscalling.jobs/rewards-benefits

We offer comprehensive, best-in-class benefits to our caregivers. For more information, visit

https://www.providenceiscalling.jobs/rewards-benefits/

Our Mission

As expressions of God’s healing love, witnessed through the ministry of Jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

About Us

Providence is a comprehensive not-for-profit network of hospitals, care centers, health plans, physicians, clinics, home health care and services continuing a more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable. Providence is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Providence does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, disability, veteran, military status, religion, age, creed, national origin, sexual identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic information, or any other basis prohibited by local, state, or federal law.

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day

Job Category: Information Security

Location: California-Anaheim

Other Location(s): Washington-Renton, Washington-Seattle, Oregon-Beaverton, Washington-Redmond, California-Irvine

Req ID: 354010