About the Department

At Novo Nordisk, our Finance and Operations team is the engine that elevates holistic commercialization of our products. The Finance and Operations team works closely with the business 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. We regulate accounting, uphold workplace safety, manage our supply chain and sampling, support technology, provide commercial operations, insights & analytics, maintain our facilities and assure the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing 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 the opportunity for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to realize your potential?

The Position

The Security Platform Administrator II is responsible for deploying and maintaining IT systems owned by the Global Security Operations team including security operations applications and underlying infrastructure. These systems provide log collection, SIEM, SOAR, case management, vulnerability assessment, threat intelligence, and privileged identity management for IT Security analysts and stakeholders throughout the organization.

The Security Platform Administrator II will administer applications, operating systems, and virtual infrastructure through command line interfaces, web-based interfaces, and write automated playbooks where possible to manage configurations and infrastructure as code for deployed applications.

The Security Platform Administrator II will be responsible for configuration management, change management, lifecycle management, vulnerability management, and license management. The person in this position ensures that the infrastructure technology and applications used within the Global Security Operations team are managed and maintained in alignment with required regulations, policies, procedures, and guidelines.

Relationships

Reports to the Senior Manager - Global Security Operations–Americas. Interacts internally with team members within the same role and those who focus on incident response, vulnerability assessment, threat intelligence, analytics, automation, and similar functions to ensure systems continue to meet requirements, objectives, and service levels. External relationships include suppliers and consultants.

Essential Functions

• Solves complex technical problems

• Administers applications providing capabilities such as log collection, SIEM, SOAR, case management, vulnerability assessment, threat intelligence, and privileged identity management

• Administers Redhat Enterprise Linux Version 7, 8, and 9 including patching, troubleshooting, application support

• Administers VMware virtual infrastructure including patching and troubleshooting

• Monitors for hardware failures and coordinates remediation

• Automates administrative tasks with Ansible, Python, and shell scripting

• Leverages understanding of TCP/IP network fundamentals to solve problems

• Administers storage including NAS and vSAN

• Deploys and maintains bare metal servers

• Updates and patches systems to mitigate vendor security bulletins

• Performs changes to maintain systems and meet emergent requirements from stakeholders

• Maintains documentation to manage and transfer knowledge

• Maintains documentation, requirements, and tests supporting systems qualification

• Ensures alignment with IT Quality processes and procedures

• Ensures the successful completion of all Quality and GIA audits and is responsible ensuring appropriate close out activities to all audit points

• Records and tracks work items in Azure DevOps

Physical Requirements

5% overnight travel required.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in Information Technology, Information Security, or related field

• The ability to effectively communicate in a verbal or written context required

• 4+ years of hands-on systems administration and technology management experience is required

• 4+ years’ experience working in an enterprise IT required

• Experience with cloud computing technology required

• Knowledge of networking technologies and protocols required

• Splunk experience highly desirable

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux experience highly desirable

• VMware experience highly desirable

• Ansible experience highly desirable

• Tenable Network Security experience desirable

• CyberArk experience desirable

• Microsoft Azure experience desirable

• Splunk, Red Hat, VMware, certifications desirable

• Knowledge of Windows and Active Directory desirable

• Ability to proactively manage multiple deadlines and organize resources and priorities to meet them

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

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

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.