Information Security Advisor

Since its founding in 2008, America’s 1st Choice has generated significant membership growth by developing effective engagement programs and building strong provider relationships in the Florida market. America’s 1st Choice operates as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Elevance Health.

Location: Tampa, FL (preferred). Alternate locations may be considered. This position will work in a hybrid model (remote and office). The ideal candidate will live within 50 miles of one of our Elevance Health PulsePoint locations.

The Information Security Advisor maintains enterprise information security policies, technical standards, guidelines, procedures, and other elements of an infrastructure necessary to support information security in compliance with established company policies, regulatory requirements, and generally accepted information security controls. Responsible for the delivery of strategic network security, access control, and secure transaction/messaging solutions. Ensures security solutions involving the use of technologies are well-conceived, designed, and implemented in compliance with enterprise standards.

How you will make an impact:

• Provides first-level engineering design functions.

• Provides trouble resolution and serves as a point of technical escalation on complex problems.

• Leads or plans implementations for access management and network security technologies.

• Develops testing plans to ensure quality of implementation.

• Leads the investigation and reporting of data security events and incidents.

• Provides system and network architecture support for information and network security technologies.

• Provides technical support to business and technology associates in risk assessments and implementation of appropriate information security procedures, standards, and technologies.

• Maintains security incident response plans.

• Represents major upgrades and business system replacements in change control.

• Recommends changes and updates to strategy.

• Oversees Enterprise mix of vendor services; may act as a key contact for setting vendor strategy.

• Designs & engineers repetitive technical solutions based on business requirements and defined technology standards.

• Develops support procedures and performance metrics reports.

• Leads level 1 & 2 incident recoveries and may organize the efforts of other analysts as part of incident recovery.

• Leads root cause analysis efforts.

Must be capable of providing top-tier support for 4 or more of the information security technology common body of knowledge skill sets:

Access Control, Application Security, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning, Cryptography, Information Security and Risk Management, Compliance & Investigations, Operations Security, Security Architecture & Design, Telecommunications & Network Security

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires BS/BA degree in Information Technology or related field of study and a minimum of 5 years experience in systems support, system administration, system engineering, system security, access management, network security, network communications, computer networking, telecommunications, systems development and management, hardware, software, and/or data; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.

• Requires experience in planning and designing highly complex systems.

Preferred Skills, Capabilities, and Experiences:

• Strong understanding of identity and access management principles, including authentication, authorization, and directory services.

• Cloud security experience in AWS and/or Azure.

• Experience with application security tools such as CrowdStrike, Netskope, Symantec DLP, and Proofpoint.

• Data encryption experience with Venafi or Thales Ciphertrust.

• Experience working with vulnerability management and configuration assessment tools such as Prisma, Azure Defender, Qualys, Tanium, and Splunk.

• IoA & IoC experience working with different tools/technologies.

• Fortinet or Palo Alto network security devices.

• Security architecture experience with Visio, executing RACI & flow charts.

• Understanding of TCP/IP layers.

• Experience with multiple technical and business disciplines is strongly preferred.

• Security Certifications: CISSP or other technical security certifications (e.g. Systems Security Certified Practitioner, Certification and Accreditation Professional) strongly preferred.