Community Health Systems is one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers. Developing and operating healthcare delivery systems in 44 distinct markets across 15 states, CHS is committed to helping people get well and live healthier. CHS operates 78 acute-care hospitals and more than 1,000 other sites of care, including physician practices, urgent care centers, freestanding emergency departments, occupational medicine clinics, imaging centers, cancer centers and ambulatory surgery centers.

Summary:
As a Network Security Specialist, this role reports to the Manager of Network Security. This role is a senior role that assists in the designing, securing, and defining network security configurations, leads in the development of junior staff, while building and maintaining the network security program for the Cyber Security Risk Management Department. This role is expected to have an expert level of knowledge of firewalls and network security technologies. The specialist will be responsible for identifying and remediating security gaps, the continued improvement of existing controls, mentoring and collaborating with other Cyber Security and Information Technology team members to secure the many information technology assets and data of Community Health Systems.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, manage, review, and recommend improvements for new and existing network security solutions, configurations and technologies.
• Enhance preventative and automated network security controls aligned with business requirements along with common threats.
• Develop strategies for expanding network segmentation, zero trust and visibility of cyber security threats and risks to include a diverse set of technologies across the spectrum of healthcare information technology assets including IoT.
• Develop and improve policies, standards, and processes for the identification and prioritization of threat remediation as well as processes and methodologies for metrics and KPIs related to network protections, security and compliance.
• Provide technical guidance to enterprise Cyber Security and Information Technology teams regarding the impact of network security controls in order to drive issues to remediation and develop systemically secure configurations.
• Assist in developing and documenting an overall network protection strategy including defining perimeters and subsequent defenses, external access, cloud and data center security, device class, and service segmentation
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by cybersecurity leadership.

Qualifications

• Required Education: High school diploma
• Preferred Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Cyber Security, Computer Science, Information Systems (or other related field), or equivalent work experience.
• Required Experience: 5+ years in Cyber Security, Firewall, Network & Cloud Security Technologies

Activities:

• Design and implement firewall and network protection technologies.
• Serve as an expert thought leader for network protection and influence strategy.
• Work in a process-driven structured environments and participate in process optimization activities.
• Operational and on-going engineering support

Competencies:

• Advanced knowledge of security principles, issues, techniques, and implementations.
• Proactive identification and solving of complex problems
• Strong understand of techniques, tactics, and practices of threat actors
• Effective communication of technical concepts
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Experience:

• 10+ Years in Cyber Security, Firewall and Network Security Technologies

Preferred License/Registration/Certification:

• CISSP, GIAC, OSCP, PCNSA, PCNSE, SISE, CCNA and other Industry Standard Certifications.

Computer Skills Required:

• Office, GSuite, Linux, Windows, Visio, Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Panorama, CISO ASA & ISE and various other cybersecurity tools and technologies as necessary.

Physical Demands:
In order to successfully perform this job, with or without a reasonable accommodation, the following are outlined below:

• The Employee is required to read, review, prepare and analyze written data and figures, using a PC or similar, and should possess visual acuity.
• The Employee may be required to occasionally climb, push, stand, walk, reach, grasp, kneel, stoop, and/or perform repetitive motions.
• The Employee is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions and; therefore, job functions are typically performed under conditions such as those found within general office or administrative work.