UnitedHealth Group is a health care and well-being company that’s dedicated to improving the health outcomes of millions around the world. We are comprised of two distinct and complementary businesses, UnitedHealthcare and Optum, working to build a better health system for all. Here, your contributions matter as they will help transform health care for years to come. Make an impact with a diverse team that shares your passion for helping others. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

As a Cybersecurity Analyst on the Cyber Threat Intelligence team, you will contribute to a fast-paced team focused on informing security teams and senior leadership of adversarial activity and threats to our environment. Your day-to-day duties will include investigating threats to our network and users and serve as the escalation point for technical intelligence analysis. You will bring hands-on intelligence experience to provide analytic support to CTI projects with large disparate data and systems with a sense of urgency to meet tight timelines for critical alerts and reports. Expertise in cyber intelligence, threat landscape and actor knowledge, intelligence platforms, vulnerability and risk analysis and writing reports are essential for success in this critical role.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Monitor threat feeds and investigate alerts from threat intelligence platform

• Monitor threat landscape to identify new tactics, techniques and procedures employed by threat actors and update associated profiles

• Manage intelligence requirements from internal stakeholders across operations, engineering, risk management and others, soliciting feedback to continually drive improvements

• Perform research and collection across the intelligence spectrum to support requests for information from internal teams

• Conduct trending and correlation across threat intelligence data to establish patterns, identify proactive mitigations, and develop countermeasures

• Contribute to threat intelligence reports regarding current activities

• Develop, manage, optimize and continuously improve processes to enhance the overall cyber threat intelligence function

• Support Incident Response and Engineering teams during incidents and other threat monitoring activities providing intelligence context, remediation recommendations and expertise

• Maintain relationships with external and other healthcare organizations

• Author and edit intelligence reports related to cyber threats and attacks

What are the reasons to consider working for UnitedHealth Group? Put it all together - competitive base pay, a full and comprehensive benefit program, performance rewards, and a management team who demonstrates their commitment to your success. Some of our offerings include:

• Paid Time Off which you start to accrue with your first pay period plus 8 Paid Holidays

• Medical Plan options along with participation in a Health Spending Account or a Health Saving account

• Dental, Vision, Life& AD&D Insurance along with Short-term disability and Long-Term Disability coverage

• 401(k) Savings Plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Education Reimbursement

• Employee Discounts

• Employee Assistance Program

• Employee Referral Bonus Program

• Voluntary Benefits (pet insurance, legal insurance, LTC Insurance, etc.)

• More information can be downloaded at: http://uhg.hr/uhgbenefits

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of Cybersecurity experience

• Experience with the intelligence lifecycle

• Knowledge of various APTs, cybercrime and other advanced threat actors as well as common malware and infection lifecycle

• Experience with investigating or managing IOCs, including validating for efficacy and relevance

• Experience performing open source research

• Experience evaluating vulnerabilities and risks to the organization

• Experience with performing threat evaluations and communicating risk

• Working with threat intelligence platforms and associated threat feeds

• Experience collecting, analyzing and interpreting threat data from multiple sources

• Familiarity with cyber threat models such as the Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis and Cyber Kill Chain

• Experience with security technologies such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, etc.

• Familiarity with Linux, OS X, UNIX and/or Windows operating systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Security related certificates, such as: Sec+, SSCP, etc.

• Knowledge of various APT, cybercrime and other advanced threat actors

• Deep understanding of the current threat landscape and associated risks

• Knowledge of common intrusion tactics, techniques, and countermeasures

• Experience with threat concepts and frameworks (CVSS, CVE, MITRE ATT&CK, STIX/TAXII, YARA, FAIR)

• Experience with security technologies such as firewalls, email inspection and sandboxing, intrusion detection and preventions systems, endpoint detection and response

• Experience with network traffic and logging tools such as Splunk or Google Chronicle

• Ability to write reports and standard operating procedures

• Ability to read, analyze and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations

• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of employees, managers, clients, and customers

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

California, Colorado, Nevada, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Washington, or Washington D.C Residents Only: The hourly range for California, Colorado, Nevada, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Washington, or Washington D.C residents is $70,200 to $137,800 per year. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location, and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups, and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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