The Cyber Security Specialist Lead investigates and analyzes all response activities related to cyber incidents within the network environment or enclave. Collects data from a variety of Computer Network Defense (CND) tools, including intrusion detection system alerts, firewall and network traffic logs, and host system logs to analyze events that occur within their environment. Provides operations for persistent monitoring of all designated networks, enclaves, and systems. Interprets, analyzes, and reports all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events. Acts as of the highest level of escalation point. Distributes directives, vulnerability, and threat advisories to identified consumers.
WHO WE ARE
With 11 ministries and access points across Indiana, Franciscan Health is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the Midwest. Franciscan Health takes pride in hiring coworkers that provide compassionate, comprehensive care for our patients and the communities we serve.
SPLUNK CLOUD / ON PREMISE EXPERIENCE PREFERRED.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT
- Work with Security Architects to develop roadmaps and implementation plans for upgrading, enhancing or replacing security technologies for which the Cyber Security Operations team is responsible.
- Demonstrate advanced proficiency to write and optimize complex SPL queries to identify and investigate suspicious activity, correlate events, identify attack patterns, and perform proactive threat hunting across security data.
- Create, test, tune, and maintain high-fidelity detections; reduce false positives; utilize risk-based alerting; and establish detection thresholds and governance.
- Stay abreast of current artificial intelligence capabilities of the SIEM and other deployed security tools, develop and implement these capabilities to improve SOC performance.
- Lead the SOC efforts during investigation of high-severity security incidents, participate in the cyber security incident response team, and guide analysts through the incident response lifecycle.
- Develop, maintain, and safely execute SOAR playbooks; automate enrichment and response tasks; and identify opportunities to reduce repetitive analyst work.
- Understand security data sources, field extractions, data models, and the common information model (CIM), troubleshoot data quality issues, and validate detections are operating against reliable data.
- Serve as a technical escalation point, coach analysts, review investigations, establish investigation standards, and communicate clearly with SOC management and other security teams.
- Build Splunk dashboards and reports to measure data sources, alert volume, detection performance, investigation quality, and SOC effectiveness.
- Build detections for anomalous user and entity behavior, create procedures to investigate compromised accounts and lateral movement, use risk context to prioritize investigations.
- Work with internal resources and external 3rd parties to design and conduct penetration tests, including ones designed as “stimulus-response” for the centralized log management system.
- Create and review cyber security policies, procedures, and standards related to Security Operations Center, Vulnerability Management, and Incident Response processes.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Required Associate's Degree
- Preferred Bachelor's Degree
- Preferred Certificate
- 8 years Information Technology or Information Security Department Required
- 5 years Healthcare industry; experience in security operations activities aligning with Essential Job Functions Preferred
TRAVEL IS REQUIRED:
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER
It is the policy of Franciscan Alliance to provide equal employment to its employees and qualified applicants for employment as otherwise required by an applicable local, state or Federal law.
Franciscan Alliance reserves a Right of Conscience objection in the event local, state or Federal ordinances that violate its values and the free exercise of its religious rights.
Franciscan Alliance is committed to equal employment opportunity.
Franciscan provides eligible employees with comprehensive benefit offerings. Find an overview on the benefit section of our career site, jobs.franciscanhealth.org.
Skills Required
- Associate's degree
- Bachelor's degree
- Certificate
- 8 years of experience in an Information Technology or Information Security department
- 5 years of healthcare industry experience, including security operations activities aligned with the essential job functions
Franciscan Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Franciscan Health and has not been reviewed or approved by Franciscan Health.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits include medical, dental, and vision with broad network options, plus added savings when using system hospitals, labs, imaging, pharmacies, and physicians. Feedback suggests health coverage is solid, though not best-in-class.
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Retirement Support — An employer-funded retirement contribution is available alongside 403(b) and 457(b) options with defined eligibility and vesting. Feedback suggests this structure supports long-term savings across many roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO accrues with service and certain provider roles cite robust allotted time off and CME. Feedback suggests the presence of EAP and additional programs adds breadth to time-away support.
Franciscan Health Insights
What We Do
The Franciscan Alliance healthcare ministry began in Lafayette, Ind., in 1875. Today, Franciscan Alliance is one of the largest Catholic health care systems in the Midwest with 12 hospital campuses in Indiana and Illinois, approximately 20,000 employees and a number of nationally recognized Centers of Health Care Excellence. Hospitals include: Franciscan Health Crown Point, Franciscan Health Michigan City, Franciscan Health Crawfordsville, Franciscan Health Lafayette East, Franciscan Health Indianapolis, Franciscan Health Carmel, Franciscan Health Rensselaer, Franciscan Health Mooresville, Franciscan Health Hammond, Franciscan Health Dyer, Franciscan Health Munster and Franciscan Beacon Hospital in Indiana; and Franciscan Health Olympia Fields in Illinois. For more information, visit FranciscanHealth.org. With more than 850 primary and specialty care providers at over 260 locations in Indiana and Illinois, Franciscan Physician Network is one of the largest and most respected multi-specialty physician networks in the Midwest providing convenient, comprehensive care








