What is a Security Engineer at Common Spirit Health?
As a Security Engineer at Common Spirit Health, you play a critical role in safeguarding one of the nation’s largest non-profit healthcare systems. In this position, your primary mission is to protect sensitive patient data, secure critical clinical applications, and defend vast hospital networks from evolving cyber threats. Because healthcare organizations are primary targets for ransomware and data breaches, your daily work directly impacts patient safety, system availability, and regulatory compliance.
You will be tasked with designing, implementing, and managing robust security controls across hybrid cloud environments and legacy clinical infrastructures. This is not a purely theoretical role; it requires hands-on technical execution, proactive threat hunting, and rapid incident response. You will collaborate closely with clinical staff, IT infrastructure teams, and third-party vendors to ensure that security measures support, rather than hinder, the delivery of high-quality patient care.
What makes this role exceptionally challenging and rewarding is the sheer scale and complexity of the Common Spirit Health ecosystem. You will secure diverse environments ranging from modern cloud-native systems to legacy medical devices that require specialized security architectures. Success in this role means balancing rigorous technical security standards with the operational realities of a fast-paced, life-saving healthcare environment.




