Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, Security Awareness – Healthcare
Remote
New York, NY
Posted 3 weeks ago
This is a senior-level, remote Senior Cybersecurity Engineer role at Healthfirst, specifically focusing on Security Awareness. This engineer will be responsible for developing and running the enterprise-wide security awareness program, ensuring it meets healthcare regulations and standards, and actively works to mitigate the top human risks by changing employee behavior.
- Location: Remote, New York.
- Hiring Range (GNY Area): $134,600 – $194,480.
- Hiring Range (Other Approved Locations): $119,600 – $177,905.
- Focus: Developing comprehensive security awareness campaigns, identifying top human risks, changing user behavior, ensuring regulatory compliance, and applying IT/Security Engineering expertise to the awareness discipline.
- Experience: Management/leadership experience in instructional design and having substantially expanded an enterprise security program for a large organization ($5B+ annual revenue).
Responsibilities: Program Development and Risk Mitigation
The role requires a blend of technical security knowledge, instructional design, and strategic leadership to influence behavior across the enterprise.
- Program Development: Develop learning and awareness programs to cultivate a culture of security awareness.
- Behavior Change: Identify the top human risks to Healthfirst and the specific behaviors that need to be changed to mitigate that risk. Develop and maintain a program that supports changing these risky behaviors.
- Compliance: Ensure the security awareness program meets industry regulations, standards, and compliance requirements (e.g., HIPAA in healthcare), and clearly communicates security policies.
- Liaison: Work closely with leadership across the organization to understand security challenges and tailor training to meet business and compliance requirements.
- Technical Integration: Continuously monitor the vulnerability of the enterprise and develop engineering solutions to improve security, applying expertise in IT Infrastructure and Application Development.
Required and Preferred Qualifications
The position mandates both technical security understanding and direct experience leading large-scale organizational programs.
- Education: BS Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Cyber Security (or related field).
- Leadership Experience (Mandatory): Management and leadership responsibility, experience in instructional design, and having built or substantially expanded an enterprise security program for an organization larger than $5B annual revenue.
- Core Security Understanding: In-depth understanding of cybersecurity concepts and principles, and the ability to mitigate identified human risks.
- Program Development: Ability to develop comprehensive security awareness campaigns and form complex security messages in a simple, clear, and concise manner.
- Preferred Tools: Knowledge of KnowBe4 and Living Security (security awareness platforms).
- Preferred Experience: Project management experience, IT engineering or Security Engineering experience, and basic experience giving security training to non-security personnel.
Job Features
| Job Category | Healthcare, IT & Cybersecurity, Security |