Senior Cybersecurity Specialist - Internal Risk

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A Day in the Life

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cybersecurity Information Assurance Analyst to join our cybersecurity team. In this role, you will be responsible for the identification, assessment, and mitigation of cybersecurity risks across the organization. As a senior member of the team, you will provide expertise in risk management, compliance, and security strategy, while also playing a key role in driving initiatives to ensure the protection of sensitive data, particularly in a highly regulated healthcare environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to evaluate and enhance our cybersecurity posture, ensuring adherence to relevant regulations such as HIPAA, GDPR, and other industry standards.

Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned.

• Leads internal cybersecurity risk assessments from intake and scoping through analysis, treatment, acceptance or escalation, monitoring, reassessment, and closure.
• Identifies and documents risk scenarios involving assets, business processes, data, systems, services, suppliers, threats, vulnerabilities, control weaknesses, dependencies, and potential consequences.
• Evaluates inherent and residual risk using defensible qualitative, semi-quantitative, and quantitative methods, including FAIR or comparable cyber-risk quantification when appropriate.
• Reviews security architecture, data flows, system descriptions, technical designs, control narratives, audit reports, penetration-test results, vulnerability information, incident history, and third-party assurance evidence.
• Assesses security control design and operating effectiveness across identity and access management, vulnerability management, secure configuration, logging and monitoring, encryption, backup and recovery, software development, cloud security, data protection, incident response, and resilience.
• Maintains accurate, complete, and audit-ready risk records, including risk statements, evidence, scoring rationale, control mappings, treatment plans, accountable owners, milestones, decisions, and next-review dates.
• Facilitates risk-owner decisions, documents exceptions and compensating controls, and escalates material, high, critical, systemic, or aggregating risks through the GRC governance process.
• Creates and tracks Risk Treatments/Issues and remediation tasks and coordinates related intake, vulnerability, asset, incident, and issue data across enterprise systems.
• Monitors changes in threats, vulnerabilities, incidents, control performance, technology, business context, M&A activity, and regulatory requirements that may trigger reassessment.
• Develops risk metrics and reporting for risk owners, GRC leadership, executive stakeholders, governance forums, auditors, and regulators.
• Applies NIST CSF 2.0, NIST RMF, NIST SP 800-30, ISO/IEC 27005, ISO 31000, FAIR, COBIT, COSO ERM, and comparable methods to support risk-based decision-making.
• Improves GRC processes through standardized processes, reusable evidence, control mappings, automation, workflow design, integrations, data-quality practices, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with teams across various departments, including IT, legal, compliance, and product security, to identify, assess, and mitigate cybersecurity risks across a broad range of products and services, ensuring security is integrated throughout the entire product lifecycle and operational processes.

Required Knowledge and Experience:

• 7+ years of IT experience with a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, MCA, or MSc.
• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity GRC (Governance, Risk, & Compliance), or external/internal audit, preferably within the medical device or healthcare industry.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory requirements, risk management, and industry best practices (e.g., HIPAA, NIST, ISO 27001, GDPR, etc.)

Risk Management Experience:

• At least 5 years of experience executing key risk management activities, including conducting risk assessments using various quantitative and qualitative methodologies, such as the FAIR model (Factor Analysis of Information Risk), ensuring a deep understanding of risk analysis methodologies.
• At least 3 years of active participation in the design and implementation of at least 2 comprehensive risk management programs (e.g., risk assessments, regulatory assessments) within a large, complex organization, including hands-on experience with program execution and improvement.
• Practical experience with risk identification, analysis, evaluation, treatment, acceptance or escalation, monitoring, reporting, and reassessment.
• Proven expertise in process design and improvement related to risk management frameworks and methodologies, ensuring effective risk mitigation strategies are incorporated into operational processes.
• Experience conducting NIST risk assessments (e.g., NIST CSF, NIST 800-53) and applying their standards and recommendations to improve organizational cybersecurity postures.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory changes and trends impacting IT risk assessments, including compliance requirements such as GDPR, HIPAA, and others, ensuring risk management strategies align with the latest regulatory standards.
• Knowledge of Operational Technology (OT) risk management is a plus, with the ability to assess risks related to OT environments and integrate them into overall IT risk strategies.
• Minimum 3 years of experience evaluating technical design documents for systems or environments to assess associated risks, including reviewing architectural, infrastructure, and application designs for security and operational risk vulnerabilities.
• Experience maintaining risk registers and managing remediation, issues, exceptions, risk acceptance, and treatment plans.

Preferred Skills & Competencies :

• Strong written, verbal, facilitation, presentation, and executive-communication skills, including the ability to explain complex cyber risk in business terms.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, challenge constructively, manage competing priorities, and collaborate across global, cross-functional teams.
• Ability to think critically and strategically about risk management and how technology, process improvements, and automation can help the organization proactively address cybersecurity risks.
• Excellent presentation skills with the ability to communicate complex risk management concepts clearly to executive-level audiences, translating technical details into actionable insights for senior leadership.

Technical Expertise:

• Experience with GRC tools such as ServiceNow, Archer, LogicGate, OneTrust, or comparable GRC platforms.
• Strong understanding of technical infrastructure, including networks, cloud environments, endpoints, and medical device systems.
• Experience with system integration and data flow analysis within GRC tools, ideally leveraging APIs and other automation technologies to improve operational efficiencies.

Certifications :

• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
• Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC).
• Certified Information Security Auditor (CISA).

Physical Job Requirements

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.

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Benefits & Compensation

Medtronic offers a competitive Salary and flexible Benefits Package

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This position is eligible for a short-term incentive called the Medtronic Incentive Plan (MIP).