Information Security Advisor

Elevance Health - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Chicago, IL

11-50 employees

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About the position

The Information Security Advisor is responsible for maintaining enterprise information security policies and technical standards to ensure compliance with company policies and regulatory requirements. This role involves delivering strategic network security solutions, managing access control, and implementing secure transaction/messaging solutions. The advisor will also provide technical support, lead incident recovery efforts, and ensure the quality of security implementations.

Responsibilities

• Provides first level engineering design functions and trouble resolution.
• Serves as point of technical escalation on complex problems.
• Leads or plans implementations for access management and network security technologies.
• Develops testing plans to ensure quality of implementation.
• Leads the investigation and reporting of data security events and incidents.
• Provides system and network architecture support for information and network security technologies.
• Provides technical support to business and technology associates with risk assessments and implementation of appropriate information security procedures, standards, and technologies.
• Maintains security incident response plans.
• Represents major upgrades and business system replacements in change control.
• Oversees enterprise mix of vendor services.
• Recommends changes and updates to strategy.
• Acts as a key contact for setting vendor strategy.
• Designs and engineers repetitive technical solutions based on business requirements and defined technology standards.
• Develops support procedures and performance metrics reports.
• Leads level 1 and 2 incident recoveries.
• May organize the efforts of other analysts as part of incident recovery.
• Leads root cause analysis efforts.

Requirements

• BS/BA degree in Information Technology or related field of study.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in systems support, system administration, system engineering, system security, access management, network security, network communications, computer networking, telecommunications, systems development and management, hardware, software, and/or data.
• Experience in planning and designing highly complex systems.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with multiple technical and business disciplines strongly preferred.
• Security Certifications: CISSP or other technical security certifications (e.g. Systems Security Certified Practitioner, Certification and Accreditation Professional) strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Merit increases
• Paid holidays
• Paid Time Off
• Incentive bonus programs
• Medical benefits
• Dental benefits
• Vision benefits
• Short and long term disability benefits
• 401(k) + match
• Stock purchase plan
• Life insurance
• Wellness programs
• Financial education resources