Director South Region Security – Remote

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Director, South Region Security role is responsible for serving as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for cybersecurity across Care Delivery. This role will work directly with the regional leadership team to implement new technology solutions and ensure alignment with enterprise security standards.

Successful candidates in this this role will be involved in monitoring, evaluating, and maintaining systems and procedures to safeguard internal information systems, networks, databases, and web-based security. Conduct vulnerability assessments and monitor systems, network, databases and web for potential system breaches. Respond to alerts from information security tools. Report, investigate, and resolve security incidents. Recommend and implement changes to enhance systems security and prevent unauthorized access. Research security trends, new methods, and techniques used in unauthorized access of data to preemptively eliminate the possibility of system breach. May oversee internal or external systems security (i.e., cloud services). Ensure that customers and users have the right access to the right systems at the right time.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Act as a liaison between enterprise security and regional leadership teams
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for security tool sets
• Work with Care Delivery security teams to implement new software, policy configurations and settings
• Evaluate and recommend security controls and tooling for on-premises and cloud infrastructure
• Develop innovative approaches and solves complex problems
• Create and maintain new and existing playbooks/runbooks, work with multi-functional team members to maintain high-quality work standards
• Evaluate vulnerabilities that exist and make recommendations for remediation
• Ensure day-to-day operational tasks are performed and security metrics are relevant and current
• Maintain expertise in cybersecurity, including industry trends, strategies, vulnerabilities and threats to ensure the company’s assets are effectively and appropriately secured.
• Participate in security incident response processes on a per-occurrence basis
• Participate in an on-call support on a rotational basis
• Review the work of others
• Develop innovative approaches
• Sought out as expert
• Serves as a leader / mentor

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:

• Bachelor’s degree or 8+ years of experience in information security / technology operations in lieu of a degree
• Security+, CISSP, CISM, or CISA certification
• 5+ years of information security/ technology operations experience
• Experience with cyber security standards/organizations (such as ITIL, NIST, COBIT, IETF, IEEE)
• Network / application / system vulnerability and threat management experience
• Proven excellent verbal as well as written executive communication and presentation skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Microsoft Defender ATP
• Experience working in a large enterprise
• Tanium security platform administration
• Delinia (PAM) administration

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy 

The salary range for this role is $124,500 to $239,400 annually based on full-time employment. 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.

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.