Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

The Manufacturing Security Engineer is responsible for security administration and maintenance of AbbVie manufacturing control networks. They work with cybersecurity personnel, systems owners and site BTS / Engineering staff to implement secure system architectures, mitigate cyber threats and vulnerabilities, and perform routine activities related to the periodic review of manufacturing systems and maintenance of security standards and procedures documentation. They are well-versed with security technologies such as firewall logs, IDS, endpoint security solutions, access control systems, and other related security technologies within the manufacturing environment

Responsibilities

• ​​Work with architects to shape security controls, systems, remote access and architecture for AbbVie manufacturing infrastructure according to defined requirements

• ​Implement and configure the IT/OT network controls to protect the manufacturing environment

• ​Perform integration activities such as design, install, configure, test, commission and handover to manufacturing asset owners

• ​Facilitate the partition of systems under considerations into zones and conduits

• ​Conduct testing and evaluation of new cybersecurity technologies and controls

• ​Recommend security products, services and procedures to enhance manufacturing system architecture designs

• ​Partner with AbbVie Attack Surface management team, Global Automation and site personnel to deploy vulnerability mitigations and patches on manufacturing systems or compensating controls

• ​Identify potential risks (operational, quality, safety, business etc.) of implementing patches

• ​Perform periodic maintenance of manufacturing security infrastructure

• ​Perform network segmentation and relevant activities to ensure network integrity is protected

• ​Provide inputs to support the fulfilment of incident response processes

• ​Partner with other stakeholders to shape mitigation strategies for cybersecurity threats

• ​Deploy appropriate asset management solutions to assist in asset discovery

• ​Escalate non-compliance of configuration of assets for against established baselines throughout the assets' life cycle

• ​Verify that all connected IT and OT assets in the AbbVie manufacturing control networks are taken into account and categorized according to criticality

• ​Partner with infrastructure, information security and site personnel to test or evaluate cybersecurity impact of changes to assets

Qualifications

• ​Bachelor's Degree with 7 years experience; Master's Degree with 6 years experience; PhD with 2 years experience in the pharmaceutical industry preferred.

• ​Required: Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Information Systems, Telecommunication, other related field. Preferred Certifications: GICSP, CISSP, CCNP, MCSE, CCIE

• ​IT experience with Fortune 500; 5000+ nodes.

• ​Demonstrated knowledge across infrastructure disciplines and technologies. Demonstrated systems integration/industrial networks expertise. Demonstrated expertise in manufacturing domain.

• ​Provides technical thought leadership within the IME organization. Provides technical leadership in both business-as-usual and crisis conditions. Responsible for briefing Management on topics ranging from risk analysis, financial implications, to crisis management. Leads cross-departmental projects. Recognized for sound judgment and leadership.

• ​Delivers technology solutions and works on complex technical problems and provides solutions that are highly innovative. Develops technical ideas and guides their development into a final product.

• ​Erroneous decisions or recommendations may result in failure to achieve critical organizational objectives. Works under management direction to achieve organization objectives, uncover, and resolve issues.

• ​Assignments are typically self-initiated; individual is self-directed.

• ​Supports AbbVie Operations Worldwide. Demonstrates a strong customer-centric approach, an empathy for global cultural differences, and excellent communications skills. Responsible for Technology evaluations. Leads the development of AbbVie MCN Strategy.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.​

• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.​

• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs. ​

• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs​

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie’s policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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