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Cyber Incident Responder Specialist
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Monthly Salary:
Posted:
17 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
14 September 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Cyber Incident Responder Specialist
About Abbott
Abbott is a global healthcare leader creating breakthrough science to improve peoples health. Were always looking towards the future anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott you can do work that matters grow and learn care for yourself and family be your true self and live a full life. You will have access to:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity working mothers female executives and scientists.
The Opportunity
This is a role based in Bogotá Colombia. Responsible for investigating analyzing and responding to security incidents across the organizations or executes complex incident response activities adapts standard procedures to evolving a critical role in protecting the organizations technology assets by identifying analyzing and responding to cybersecurity threats that may result in unauthorized access misuse or disruption of services.
WHAT YOULL DO
- Monitor security alerts and events from various tools (SIEM EDR IDS/IPS etc.) to identify potential incidents.
- Perform triage correlation and in-depth analysis of security events including indicators of compromise (IOCs) malware activity phishing attempts and suspicious network behavior.
- Conduct forensic analysis on systems networks and endpoints to determine root cause and scope of incidents.
- Develop and implement response strategies to mitigate immediate threats and prevent recurrence.
- Support the implementation tuning and monitoring of security tools such as SIEM EDR firewalls and intrusion detection systems.
- Ensure security controls are effectively detecting and preventing malicious activity.
- Validate and enhance alerting mechanisms to reduce false positives and improve detection accuracy.
- Document incidents thoroughly including timelines impact assessments and remediation actions.
Position Accountability & Scope
- Accountable for timely detection analysis and response to cybersecurity incidents to minimize organizational risk and business disruption.
- Works under moderate supervision but exercises independent judgment when handling incidents and escalating issues.
- Responsible for maintaining the confidentiality integrity and availability of organizational systems and data.
- Collaborates cross-functionally with IT network security engineering and business teams during incident response activities.
- Contributes to continuous improvement of incident response processes playbooks and detection capabilities.
- Ensures compliance with internal security policies standards and regulatory requirements.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Information Technology or similar area; or equivalent work experience.
- 2 years of technical experience in a Security Operations Center (SOC) incident response or cybersecurity-related role.
- Demonstrated experience with security monitoring and investigation tools (e.g. SIEM such as Splunk EDR platforms email security tools).
- Strong understanding of network protocols operating systems enterprise security controls and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK.
Apply now
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to employee diversity.
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The base pay for this position is
N/AIn specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Information Risk & Quality Assurance
DIVISION:
BTS Business Technology Services
LOCATION:
Colombia > Bogota : Building II
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
No
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
Yes
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Not Applicable
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
WHO WE ARE CREATING LIFE-CHANGING TECHNOLOGY From removing the regular pain of fingersticks as people manage their diabetes to connecting patients to doctors with real-time information monitoring their hearts, from easing chronic pain and movement disorders to testing half the world’s ... View more
