Information Security Associate (Temp to Perm)

Alignment Health is breaking the mold in conventional health care committed to serving seniors and those who need it most: the chronically ill and frail. It takes an entire team of passionate and caring people united in our mission to put the senior first. We have built a team of talented and experienced people who are passionate about transforming the lives of the seniors we this fast-growing company you will find ample room for growth and innovation alongside the Alignment Health community. Working at Alignment Health provides an opportunity to do work that really matters not only changing lives but saving them. Together.

General Duties/Responsibilities (May include but are not limited to):

• Triages analyses and resolves requests from internal and external customers prioritizing them based upon risk.
• Responsible for one or more information security system and maintains those systems to all applicable policies and procedures.
• Assists with break/fix of tools and automation that are owned by the Information Security Team.
• Analyzes and responds to security threats applying sound reasoning and logic based upon risk.
• Provides expert advice to management on identified security risks.
• Investigates and documents security incidents using industry standard methods. Makes recommendations to management in the lessons learned phase.
• Manages dynamically changing operational priorities (70% of the week overall) and project priorities (30% of the week overall) to meet SLAs and deliverables.
• Researches and recommends new tools to reduce significant organizational with other internal information technology teams to support internal and external systems.
• Writes performs peer-reviews and updates documentation (e.g. processes FAQs flow diagrams how-tos) for information security and participates in the Information Security Team daily stand-ups and other internal and external meetings.
• Participates in regular reporting maintaining accountability and transparency within the Information Security Team.
• Remains current on industry trends in cyber risk with industry standards (ISO 27001/2 NIST CIS) and regulatory requirements (HIPAA HITECH HITRUST etc.)
• Performs all work in an ethical manner consistent with contractual regulatory and legal obligations.
• Diligently upholds Alignment Healthcares core values.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

N/A

Minimum Requirements:

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skill and/or ability accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Minimum Experience:

3 years experience working in a technical hands-on role (e.g. Systems Administrator Help Desk etc.)

Education/Licensure:

Associate degree in Computer Science Computer Engineering or related technical discipline and/or equivalent work experience.

Other:

A proven ability to think analytically.

Demonstrated creativity in solving problems.

An ability to notice capture and process relevant information to make informed decisions.

Moral character with virtues such as integrity fortitude honesty and dedication.

Curiosity to learn how something works and an aptitude to offer suggestions to improve it.

Excellent oral and written communication skills and an ability to present and discuss information in a way that establishes rapport and trust.

Detail orientated with an ability and desire to implement perfection but being ok with imperfection to meet defined SLAs.

An ability to be productive as an individual contributor with little supervision to meet agreed upon deliverables.

Preferred:

Technical knowledge of common information security tools and systems.

A working knowledge of the NIST CSF and/or CIS Critical Security Controls (CSC).

Demonstrated practical experience with one or more programming or scripting languages (PowerShell Python C# VB VBA Ruby NodeJS SQL etc.)

A working knowledge of Git and GitHub.

Demonstrated practical experience with one or more of the major cloud providers (AWS Azure GCP).

Previous experience contributing to projects using agile tools and processes.

Prior experience in healthcare or another regulated industry.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential Physical Functions:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee regularly is required to stand walk sit use hand to finger handle or feel objects tools or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently lifts and/or moves up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Alignment Healthcare LLC is proud to practice Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action. We are looking for diversity in qualified candidates for employment: Minority/Female/Disable/Protected Veteran.

If you require any reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in completing the online application interviewing completing any pre-employment testing or otherwise participating in the employee selection process please contact .

Pay range may be based on a number of factors including market location education responsibilities experience etc.

Alignment Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability age protected veteran status gender identity or sexual orientation.

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