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Security Engineer III

Novo Nordisk
  • Plainsboro, NJ
  • $99,600–$184,200 Per Year
  • Autofill and Review
4 days ago

Job Description

About the Department

The Finance & Operations department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance & Operations works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

The Position

In this role you will work within the Detection Analytics & Orchestration function and collaborate with architects, engineers, analysts, and incident responders across the Cyber Defense Center. You will help design, build, and operate advanced detection and response capabilities spanning security analytics, telemetry and observability, SOAR orchestration, automation, and AI-enabled workflows. We are looking for someone who is excited to go beyond out-of-the-box product detections, use the underlying security data creatively, and engineer new analytics and workflows that identify meaningful threats and help responders act quickly. Your work will directly support our goal of improving detection quality while reducing mean time to resolve security incidents.

Experience with major platforms for security monitoring, log management, orchestration, AI/ML engineering, and ITSM, such as Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Splunk, Cribl, ServiceNow, cloud-native logging platforms, data lake technologies, and agentic AI platforms, is an asset for our team.

Relationships

Reports directly to the Associate Director - Detection Analytics & Orchestration. Will support Cyber Defense Center strategic goals alongside peers in New Jersey, Denmark and India. These relationships include specialists, architects, operations teams, application management teams and project managers. This role will interface routinely with key stakeholders including CDC management, senior security operations personnel, as well as third party technology service providers. Provides guidance and training to less experienced professional or support staff.

Essential Functions

  • Proactively identify opportunities to improve stakeholder satisfaction
  • Contribute to planning and prioritization of work within the function
  • Build strong relationships with non-technical stakeholders
  • Design and engineer detections and analytics that extend beyond standard vendor and product content, using available telemetry to identify threats relevant to our environment
  • Design and maintain security observability pipelines for endpoint, network, cloud, identity, ap-plication, and infrastructure telemetry
  • Develop log routing, parsing, enrichment, filtering, normalization, data quality controls, and data tiering strategies that make security data useful and cost-effective
  • Design, build, and maintain SOAR playbooks and orchestration workflows that automate alert triage, enrichment, containment, escalation, approvals, notifications, and evidence collection
  • Design, test, and operationalize AI agent workflows and ML-enabled security capabilities for detection, enrichment, investigation, summarization, and analyst productivity
  • Integrate SIEM, EDR, identity, vulnerability, threat intelligence, ITSM, collaboration, cloud, and data platforms using APIs and supported connectors
  • Partner with detection engineers and incident responders to identify bottlenecks and engineer measurable improvements that reduce mean time to resolve security incidents
  • Translate stakeholder and incident response requirements into practical analytics, telemetry, workflow, and automation designs that are reliable, auditable, measurable, and maintainable
  • Maintain alignment with Incident Response function

Physical Requirements

5% overnight travel required.

Qualifications

  • A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Engineering or other relevant fields. Relevant experience may be substituted when appropriate
  • 6 years of relevant experience is required
  • Practical experience with security monitoring, log management, automation, orchestration, cloud security, ITSM, or related technologies such as Microsoft, Splunk, Cribl, ServiceNow, AWS, or Azure is desirable.
  • Ability to lead or contribute to technical projects involving security processes, platforms, data, automation, or integrations
  • Familiarity with scripting, query languages, APIs, workflow logic, or data handling concepts is desirable.
  • Vendor-neutral, vendor-sponsored, or professional certifications in security, cloud, automation, or related technology areas are desirable.
  • Experience working in an enterprise scale IT operations environment desired
  • Experience working in a multinational organization
  • The ability to effectively communicate in a verbal or written context is essential

The base compensation range for this position is $99,600 to $184,200. Base compensation is determined based on a number of factors. This position is also eligible for a company bonus based on individual and company performance. Novo Nordisk offers long-term incentive compensation and or company vehicles depending on the position's level or other company factors.

Employees are also eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs including medical, dental and vision coverage; life insurance; disability insurance; 401(k) savings plan; flexible spending accounts; employee assistance program; tuition reimbursement program; and voluntary benefits such as group legal, critical illness, identity theft protection, pet insurance and auto/home insurance. The Company also offers time off pursuant to its sick time policy, flex-able vacation policy and parental leave policy.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes - we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and defeating diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger - a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

Numbers & Facts

LocationPlainsboro, NJ
IndustryBiotechnology/Pharmaceuticals
Salary$99,600–$184,200 Per Year
Company Size2,500 to 4,999 employees
Year Founded1923
Websitehttps://www.novonordisk.com/

About Company

Working at Novo Nordisk

 

Life-changing careers

Starting a career at Novo Nordisk is more than getting a job. It is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions of people living with a serious chronic disease.

Whether you are a part of supplying insulin for patients around the world, discovering the next breakthrough at one of our state-of-the-art research centres, working with us is truly life-changing.

 

We are inspired by life

We are a proud life-science company on a mission to ensure that people living with a chronic disease can live a full life. Millions rely on us.

We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. From our colleagues in the lab, working to change lives through pioneering break-through treatments, to our colleagues putting sustainability at the core of our processes and working to prolong the life of our planet, this mission to improve lives is at the core of our every action.

 

Together we drive change

Change is a constant — change in lifestyle, change in technology, change all over. At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it.

We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future.

That’s why we continuously push to improve the way we work and the lives of the patients we serve, creating innovative solutions that fit the way people want to live. To accomplish this, we embrace a spirit of open-mindedness and experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection.

 

Together, we are life-changing

Our company is our people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We want to ensure that every employee can achieve a work-life balance that supports their current priorities and where they want to go next.

 

Your development starts here

We value our employees for the unique skills, backgrounds and perspectives they bring to the table. We work continuously to help bring out the best in all of our people, offering opportunities for development and creating an environment of mobility within the company. We strive to offer a workplace that’s great to be in and to be from.

It is very important to us that anyone working with us feels empowered as an employee and as a person. We all should have the opportunity to act fast, make decisions and be agile. 

With a career at our company, you will feel a difference right from the start. A sense of inspiration that comes from a shared belief in driving positive change for people, families and communities everywhere, and it’s a collective effort. We rely on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 45,000 employees.

In the video above, meet  Marie Darting, one of our scientists, and hear more about her work as a formulation scientist, her perspective on development plans and the impact she feels her work has on people living with a chronic disease.

 

Who we are

We were founded in 1923 and today we are a global healthcare company headquartered just outside Copenhagen, Denmark.

Our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases, such as obesity and rare blood and endocrine disorders. We do so by pioneering  scientific breakthroughs, expanding  access to our medicines , and working to prevent and ultimately cure diabetes.

With almost 100 years of experience, one of the broadest diabetes product portfolios in the healthcare industry, as well as an award-winning pipeline of innovative products, our success is built on our company values – the Novo Nordisk Way.

Skills

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  • Analysis Skillsunmatched
  • Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
  • Automationunmatched
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  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)unmatched
  • Chronic Diseaseunmatched
  • Cloud Computingunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Compensation Managementunmatched
  • Computer Scienceunmatched
  • Computer Securityunmatched
  • Data Lakeunmatched
  • Data Qualityunmatched
  • Database Programming Languagesunmatched
  • Diseaseunmatched
  • Employee Assistance Planunmatched
  • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
  • Financial Operationsunmatched
  • Healthcareunmatched
  • IT Service Management (ITSM)unmatched
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  • International Businessunmatched
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  • Leadershipunmatched
  • Microsoft Product Familyunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
  • People Managementunmatched
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  • Project/Program Managementunmatched
  • Quality Managementunmatched
  • Requirements Managementunmatched
  • Resource Managementunmatched
  • Safety/Work Safetyunmatched
  • Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
  • Security Analysisunmatched
  • Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)unmatched
  • Security Infrastructureunmatched
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  • ServiceNowunmatched
  • Splunkunmatched
  • Supply Chain Managementunmatched
  • Technical Supportunmatched
  • Technical/Engineering Designunmatched
  • Telemetryunmatched
  • Test Designunmatched
  • Time Managementunmatched
  • Training/Teachingunmatched
  • Value Chain Modelunmatched
  • Willing to Travelunmatched
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