Children's National Hospital · 6 days ago
Lead Information Security Analyst
Silver Spring, MD
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
$128K/yr - $214K/yr
10+ years expChildren's National Hospital is seeking a Lead Information Security Analyst to serve as their Incident Response/SOC SME. This role will lead incident response strategy and execution, mentor SOC analysts, and enhance detection capabilities while ensuring continuous improvement in security operations.
AssociationChild CareHealth CareNon Profit
Responsibilities
Act as the Security Incident Response Leader during high-severity events, directing containment, remediation, and recovery efforts
Serve as the escalation point for SOC analysts and ensure timely, coordinated response actions
Develop and maintain incident response frameworks, including runbooks, playbooks, and post-incident reviews
Partner with executive leadership, clinical staff, and external stakeholders (law enforcement, MSSPs) to manage incident communications
Maintain and optimize Splunk ES detections, correlation rules, dashboards, and reporting
Guide SOC analysts on triage, alert enrichment, and threat-hunting practices
Build and manage security orchestration and automated response playbooks
Orchestrate integrations across SIEM, EDR, vulnerability management, and identity systems...etc
Produce accurate documentation for incidents, including executive-level summaries and technical after-action reports
Ensure incident response processes and playbooks are continuously updated
Lead tabletop exercises, red/blue team simulations, and cyber range events
Mentor and coach SOC analysts to elevate detection and response maturity
Oversees the Identification, documentation, and reporting of cybersecurity risks
Leads the development of Information Security policies, standards, and procedures
Leads engagement with senior leaders of CNH business units to ensure security of assets, applications, and data
Leads the application of procedures and systems associated with managing access to CNH systems, data, and other assets
Leads the execution of responses associated with cybersecurity incidents, as required
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in a computer science, math, engineering, or another relevant discipline or equivalent training and work experience
10+ years of experience in cybersecurity with a focus on vulnerability management, cybersecurity operations, analysis, forensics and/or investigations
Experience leading in the application of key cybersecurity practices, controls, and frameworks
Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills; interpersonal and collaborative skills; and the ability to communicate information risk-related concepts to technical as well as nontechnical audiences
Experience leading cybersecurity auditing, compliance, and policy
Experience leading cybersecurity risk assessments, vulnerability management, penetration testing, and threat identification
Experience leading the management of access controls including identity, active directory, privileged account management, and authentication
Experience leading cybersecurity incident response, risk remediation, business continuity, disaster recovery, and cyber operations
Company
Children's National Hospital
Children’s National Hospital, based in Washington, D.C., was established in 1870 to help every child grow up stronger.
Founded in 1870Washington, District of Columbia, USA
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$19.4MKey Investors
Gilbert Family FoundationAdvanced Research Projects Agency for HealthUnited Health Foundation
2025-10-09Grant· $8M
2024-10-23Grant· $8M
2021-11-09Grant· $3.4M
Leadership Team
Kurt Newman
President and CEO
Michelle Riley-Brown, MHA, FACHE
President and CEO
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