Senior Cyber Security Engineer (Healthcare)

Job Summary:

We are seeking a Senior Cyber Security Engineer to lead and enhance cybersecurity initiatives for a leading healthcare organization. The ideal candidate will have extensive technical security expertise, hands-on experience in vulnerability management, risk assessment, and cloud security, and a solid understanding of healthcare compliance standards such as HIPAA, HITECH, NIST, and HITRUST. This role is critical to protecting sensitive healthcare data and shaping the organization’s long-term security architecture.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead comprehensive security assessments across healthcare systems, applications, and infrastructure.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory frameworks (HIPAA, HITECH, NIST, HITRUST).
• Conduct vulnerability scans, penetration testing, and threat modeling to identify and mitigate risks.
• Develop and maintain risk models, policies, and documentation for audit readiness.
• Design and implement scalable security controls across cloud and on-premise environments.
• Support incident response and root cause analysis for security events.
• Collaborate with technical and business teams to improve overall security posture.
• Evaluate and deploy emerging security technologies (XDR, Zero Trust, etc.).

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity roles, including at least 2 years in a senior or lead capacity.
• In-depth knowledge of healthcare security standards (HIPAA, HITECH, HITRUST).
• Proficiency with vulnerability management tools (Nessus, Qualys, Burp Suite) and SIEM platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Preferred certifications: CISSP, OSCP, CISM, HCISPP, or equivalent.

Flexible work from home options available.

Empowering The Future Of Healthcare

The healthcare Industry is on the brink of a paradigm shift where patients are increasingly being viewed as empowered consumers, utilizing digital technologies to better understand and manage their own health. As a result, there is a growing demand for a range of patient-centric services, including personalized care that is tailored to each individual's unique needs, health equity that ensures access to care for all, price transparency to make healthcare more affordable, streamlined prior authorizations for medications, the availability of therapeutic alternatives, health literacy to promote informed decision-making, reduced costs, and many other initiatives designed to improve the patient experience.   ClinDCast is at the forefront of shaping the future of healthcare by partnering with globally recognized healthcare organizations and offering them innovative solutions and expert guidance. Our suite of services is designed to cater to a broad range of needs of healthcare organizations, including healthcare IT innovation, electronic health record (EHR) implementation & optimizations, data conversion, regulatory and quality reporting, enterprise data analytics, FHIR interoperability strategy, payer-to-payer data exchange, and application programming interface (API) strategy.