Information Security Advisor - Detection Engineer

Job Overview

The Information Security Advisor – Detection Engineer is responsible for delivering strategic network security, access control, and secure transaction/messaging solutions, ensuring that security solutions involving the use of technologies are well conceived, designed, and implemented in compliance with enterprise standards.

This role requires associates to be in office 1–2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, with flexibility for virtual work. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office. Candidates not within a reasonable commuting distance will not be considered unless an accommodation is granted as required by law.

Key responsibilities include:

• Maintain enterprise information security policies, technical standards, guidelines, procedures, and other elements of the infrastructure.
• Provide first‑level engineering design functions and trouble resolution, serving as a point of technical escalation on complex problems.
• Lead or plan implementations for access management and network security technologies.
• Develop testing plans to ensure quality of implementation.
• Investigate and report data security events and incidents, and provide system and network architecture support for information and network security technologies.
• Maintain security incident response plans and represent major upgrades in change control.
• Oversee enterprise vendor services, recommending changes and updates to strategy.
• Design and engineer repetitive technical solutions based on business requirements and defined technology standards.
• Develop support procedures and performance metrics reports; lead level 1 & 2 incident recoveries and root cause analysis efforts.
• Provide top‑tier support for at least four of the following information security technology skill sets:
  Access Control, Application Security, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning, Cryptography, Information Security and Risk Management, Legal & Regulations, Compliance and Investigations, Operations Security, Physical Security, Security Architecture and Design, Telecommunications and Network Security.
• Design, develop, tune, and maintain security detections, correlation rules, and behavioral analytics.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for deployment, testing, and validation of detection content.
• Collaborate with CSOC, Fraud, Threat Intelligence, Infrastructure, and Engineering teams to enhance monitoring capabilities.

• BS/BA degree in Information Technology or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in systems support, system administration, system engineering, system security, access management, network security, or related fields.
• Experience in planning and designing highly complex systems.

• Experience with multiple technical and business disciplines.
• Strongly preferred security certifications such as CISSP, SSCP, COPC, or similar.
• Experience with SIEM, EDR, UEBA, and fraud analytics platforms.
• Preferred experience in detection engineering and security analytics.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Power Shell, or similar.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with machine learning concepts, anomaly detection, and predictive analytics for cybersecurity use cases.
• Knowledge of security automation and orchestration technologies.

Job Level: Non‑Management Exempt

Work Shift:

Not specified
Job Family: IFT > IT Security & Compliance

Elevance Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, citizenship status, color, creed, disability, ethnicity, genetic information, gender (including gender identity and gender expression), marital status, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other status or condition protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.