Cybersecurity Specialist

Join the Cleveland Clinic team where you will work alongside passionate caregivers and making a lasting, meaningful impact on patient care. Here, you will receive endless support and appreciation while building a rewarding career with one of the most respected healthcare organizations in the world.      

A caregiver in this role collaborates with IT leadership, staff, and business partners to design and implement effective cybersecurity solutions that align with Cleveland Clinic’s operational and strategic objectives. As a Cybersecurity Specialist, you will be responsible for managing third-party and supplier risk across all domains, ensuring robust business continuity planning, and embedding supplier risk requirements into new continuity management tools. In this role, you will utilize your skills in supplier risk management, communication, and critical thinking needed to drive innovation and engage stakeholders across the organization. This role offers meaningful learning and development opportunities through daily interactions with senior leadership, honing strategic thinking, and driving innovation. 

A caregiver in this position works remotely out of Ohio, Florida, or Nevada, Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm.  

A caregiver who excels in this role will:  

• Perform all necessary duties to ensure the safety of digital assets and to protect systems from intentional or inadvertent access. 

• Provide input to solutions to identified needs, meeting specific operational and business objectives, technology capabilities. 

• Provide technical expertise and support to clients, IT management, and staff in risk assessments, implementation, and operational aspects of appropriate Cybersecurity procedures and products. 

• Assist with maintaining ongoing service relationships throughout the organization. 

• Monitor specific Cybersecurity solutions for efficient and appropriate operations. 

• Collaborate on IT projects to ensure that security issues are addressed throughout the project life cycle. 

• Research and assesses new threats and security alerts and recommends remedial action. 

• Participate in Cybersecurity projects, including planning, obtaining customer input and projecting resource requirements. 

• Ensure Analysts receive and analyze alerts from various enterprise level sensors and determine possible causes of such alerts. 

• Review security system requirements with customers and translate requirements into specific functions or deliverables. 

• Analyze and integrate security solutions into multiple platforms, including clinical and financial systems 

• Analyze flow chart processes and recommends ways to reduce steps and increase efficiency through use of technology. 

• May coach or provide guidance to lower-level Cybersecurity Analysts and support the continuous process of optimizing department resources. 

• Communicate security procedures and policies with caregivers. 

• Weigh business needs against security concerns and articulate issues to Cybersecurity peers. 

• Defend systems against unauthorized access, modification and/or destruction 

• Provide after-hours support as needed. 

 Minimum qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• High School diploma/GED and minimum 7 years of Information, Clinical or Financial Systems experience , including directing, planning and scheduling a major information system project, with at least 3 years of Cyber Security experience. 

• OR bachelor's degree and minimum or 5 years of Information, Clinical or Financial Systems experience , including directing, planning and scheduling a major information system project, with at least 3 years of Cyber Security experience. 

• ITIL Foundations Certification upon or within six months of hire 

• Excellent knowledge of security technology and strong analytical skills. 

• Understanding of networking/distributed computing environment concepts. 

• Requires familiarity with domain structures, user authentication mechanisms and fundamental cryptography. 

• In-depth knowledge of intrusion detection and data correlation. 

• Practical knowledge of network topology and the underlying OSI model. 

• Understands principles of client/server configuration. 

Preferred qualifications for the ideal future caregiver include:  

• Bachelor's degree in information technology/computer science or related field preferred. 

• Certifications from SysAdmin, Audit, Network and Security Institute (SANS), International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC2) or Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) or other  
  position related certifications preferred 

• Certified Fraud Examiner 

• Associate Cyber Resilience Professional – Disaster Recovery Institute International 

• Completed Cisco Threat Hunting Workshop 5.2 

• U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security FEMA CDP Healthcare Leadership 

• Toastmasters' International certification or 2+ years of membership 

• Demonstrated experience implementing and aligning cybersecurity initiatives with third party risk management 

• Demonstrated experience developing and conducting live tabletop workshops and exercises 

• Demonstrated experience in documenting and auditing business continuity and supplier business continuity plans 

• Experience developing and delivering pillar strategies. This includes developing project plans on a timeline, delivering proof of concept cases, and reporting results. 

• Delivering presentations to medium- large size audiences on topics related to compliance assessments, information security, and digital security topics as well as status updates on projects and assessments. 

• 10+ years of progressive experience in business resilience, third party exit strategy planning, working with federal agencies, and cross-functional project leadership 

• Proven success as a trusted advisor to executive stakeholders, including direct engagement with CISO level