IT Security Consultant - Plymouth, MN

Position Description:

Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that's improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There's no room for error. Join us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide security incident response support and investigation capabilities for key customers
• Provide support for projects that improve the security posture of UnitedHealth Group
• Provide alerting and monitoring consulting for key customers
• Provide innovative solutions and countermeasures in the event of a security incident
• Provide innovative solutions to SIEM reporting, alerting, investigations, and task automation
• Maintain the integrity of UnitedHealth Group?s security posture
• Communicate security activity to team members and leadership 
• Provide a process driven approach to security investigations which ensures accuracy and consistency 
• On-call rotation with 24/7 availability
• Reviews the work of others.
• Develops innovative approaches.
• Sought out as expert.
• Serves as a leader/ mentor.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree or HS diploma/GED with 4+ equivalent experience in Security field
• 3+ years of IT security experience
• Technical knowledge of networking, security controls (IPS, Firewall, FireEye, etc) and information security concepts.
• Expertise in SQL and creating SQL queries
• 1+ years knowledge of trouble isolation, log analysis, event correlation, and data analysis
• Experience with Microsoft Office for Data Analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience using enterprise SIEM technologies a plus
• Experience using RSA Security Analytics, or NetWitness highly desired
• CISSP or other security certifications highly desired
• Understanding of object oriented programming languages as well as interpreted scripting languages highly desired (C++, Perl, Python, ColdFusion, etc)

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.SM

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.