
Cyber Security Defense Engineer
Vail Health
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Arizona • Colorado • United States
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Salary
💰 $97,406 - $134,430 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Owns and leads the enterprise patch management and security health program across endpoints, servers, cloud platforms, network devices, and security technologies.
- Designs, implements, and continuously improves secure configuration standards, patch deployment processes, automation, and change workflows in collaboration with Infrastructure and Cloud teams.
- Defines, tracks, and reports enterprise patch compliance, configuration hygiene, and vulnerability exposure metrics to support risk‑based decision making.
- Provides advanced (Tier 2/Tier 3) security operations support, investigating and responding to complex security alerts including malware, endpoint compromise, lateral movement, and anomalous behavior.
- Correlates security telemetry across SIEM, EDR, email, cloud, and network platforms to identify, prioritize, and contain active and emerging threats.
- Develops and maintains security operations with runbooks, incident response playbooks, escalation procedures, and detection tuning to improve operational effectiveness and signal quality.
- Leads enterprise email security and social engineering defense, including monitoring and response for phishing, smishing, spoofing, and business email compromise (BEC).
- Optimizes email and messaging security controls, including DMARC, DKIM, SPF, and anti‑phishing technologies, and analyzes attack trends to strengthen preventive controls and awareness initiatives.
- Serves as a core incident responder, supporting containment, eradication, recovery, forensic evidence collection, log analysis, and root‑cause investigations for cybersecurity incidents.
- Drives post‑incident reviews and continuous improvement, including lessons learned, control enhancements, and participation in on‑call incident response rotations.
- Supports enterprise risk management, audit, and compliance initiatives by delivering defensible security metrics, dashboards, and executive‑level reporting.
- Oversees and evolves the Vulnerability Management Program, including tooling strategy, continuous scanning, risk‑based prioritization, remediation SLAs, reporting, and validation of remediation effectiveness with system owners.
- Collaborates cross-functionally and contributes to a security-first culture while supporting on-call rotations for 24/7 system needs.
Requirements
- Five years of progressive experience in cybersecurity engineering, threat detection, vulnerability management, or incident response (multiple areas preferred).
- Three years of experience in healthcare information security preferred.
- Hands-on expertise with enterprise patch management platforms (Tanium, HCL BigFix, Automox, KACE, Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, Intune, Windows Server Update Services, Jamf, etc.).
- Proven experience with enterprise security tooling such as Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike, or equivalent.
- Strong understanding of security frameworks and methodologies including National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework, Center of Internet Security Controls, MITRE ATT&CK, and International Organization for Standardization 27001.
- Experience working with SIEM platforms and performing advanced log analysis.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or information systems preferred.
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Security+, CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+(CYSA+), Certified Ethical Hacker, GCIA Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GCIA Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA), GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON), or cloud security certifications (Azure, AWS, M365).
Benefits
- Competitive wages
- Parental leave (4 weeks paid)
- Housing programs
- Childcare reimbursement
- Comprehensive Health Benefits:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Educational Programs:
- Tuition Assistance
- Existing Student Loan Repayment
- Specialty Certification Reimbursement
- Annual Supplemental Educational Funds
- Paid Time Off:
- Up to five weeks in your first year of employment and continues to grow each year.
- Retirement & Supplemental Insurance:
- 403(b) Retirement plan with immediate matching
- Life insurance
- Short and long-term disability
- Recreation Benefits, Wellness & More:
- Up to $1,000 annual wellbeing reimbursement
- Recreation discounts
- Pet insurance
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Hard Skills & Tools
enterprise patch managementsecurity operationsvulnerability managementincident responselog analysisconfiguration standardsthreat detectionautomationrisk-based decision makingsecurity telemetry
Soft Skills
collaborationleadershipcommunicationproblem-solvinganalytical thinkingincident responsecontinuous improvementcross-functional teamworkorganizational skillsattention to detail
Certifications
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)Security+CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CYSA+)Certified Ethical HackerGCIA Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)GCIA Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)GIAC Continuous Monitoring (GMON)cloud security certifications (Azure)cloud security certifications (AWS)cloud security certifications (M365)