At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.
As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.
Position Summary
As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining our security platforms for Cyber Defense. Within the large network environment of CVS Health, the Cyber Defense team is tasked with providing security analysis across a wide scope throughout the enterprise. The goal of a Security Engineer is to ensure that our security platforms remain functional and meet the needs of Cyber Defense. Here at CVS, we have a complex layered approach to security for our many different lines of business. This role is expected to adapt to changing requirements and suggest improvements to the enterprise's security posture.
Responsibilities of the Senior Security Engineer include:
Familiarizing themselves with the capabilities of each tool in our security stack.
Understanding the standard operating procedures of the Security Platform team and stakeholders.
Onboarding, parsing, and monitoring data for the security platform.
Troubleshooting any potential issues with the security platform.
Partner with systems and security architecture, application, databases and storage teams.
Creating visualizations, queries, detections, and automations required for the functioning/use of the platform.
Understands the Enterprise logs and acquires knowledge on the relevant processes need for project delivery.
Participate in entire software lifecycle development, testing, CI/CD and production operations.
Documents platform processes, workflows, and systems for reference and knowledge-sharing purposes.
Implements data quality checks and validation processes to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of the data.
Provide technical guidance and solutions for Cyber Defense team members.
Be a team player and work with team members for business solutions and implementations.
Any other assigned tasks.
Required Qualifications
5+ years of Information Security experience
3+ years of experience with Python
1+ year of experience with common database or SIEM languages
1+ year of hands-on Experience with a major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure)
1+ year of admin experience with major data lake and/or SIEM platforms
Preferred Qualifications
1+ year of experience with SOAR
3+ years of experience with common scripting and programming languages such as Python, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
3+ years of experience with SIEMs such as Splunk, ELK, LogRhythm, QRadar, Logpoint, Sentinel, Chronicle, etc.
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Education-
Bachelor degree from accredited university or equivalent work experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)
BUSINESS OVERVIEW
Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities
Anticipated Weekly Hours
40Time Type
Full timePay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$101,970.00 - $203,940.00This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Great benefits for great people
We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:
Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.
For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 08/15/2025Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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