Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer

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About the role

As a Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer you will independently identify assess prioritize and drive the remediation of vulnerabilities across applications infrastructure containers Kubernetes environments and third-party dependencies.

You will be expected to understand how vulnerable dependencies enter an application determine whether they are direct or transitive identify appropriate remediation options and work with engineering teams to implement and validate fixes.

You will also own and enhance internal vulnerability-management tools including the repositories scheduled jobs APIs and reporting applications used to process and display vulnerability findings. The ideal candidate should be comfortable using approved AI tools such as Claude to accelerate development investigation documentation and security automation while following company security and data-handling requirements.

What youll do

• Perform vulnerability assessments across applications operating systems containers Kubernetes clusters and third-party dependencies.
• Investigate vulnerable dependencies determine where they originate and identify whether they are direct or transitive.
• Recommend safe dependency upgrades configuration changes patches or compensating controls.
• Own and maintain the source-code repositories associated with internal vulnerability-management tools and reporting applications.
• Integrate security tools with ticketing systems repositories dashboards and reporting platforms through APIs and webhooks.
• Use approved AI-assisted development tools to support coding debugging vulnerability research remediation analysis test creation and documentation.
• Identify false positives duplicate findings incorrect asset associations and findings that lack sufficient context.
• Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to prioritize vulnerabilities based on exploitability exposure asset criticality and business impact.
• Develop dashboards and reports that communicate vulnerability risk remediation progress SLA performance and program effectiveness.
• Lead remediation initiatives and provide technical guidance to engineers and other security team members.

What youll need

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Cybersecurity or equivalent practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in information security vulnerability management application security security engineering or a related discipline.
• Strong understanding of CVE CVSS CWE CISA KEV EPSS OWASP and risk-based vulnerability prioritization.
• Experience investigating vulnerable dependencies using build files dependency trees lock files container images and software-composition-analysis tools.
• Ability to determine where a vulnerable package originates and recommend a safe compatible remediation.
• Hands-on experience operating vulnerability-management platforms such as Qualys or similar tools.
• Experience with SAST DAST SCA container-security or infrastructure vulnerability-scanning tools.
• Experience developing or maintaining reporting applications dashboards backend services or data-processing workflows.
• Familiarity with containers Kubernetes workloads Helm CI/CD pipelines configuration management logging monitoring and secrets management.
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language such as Python Java Go or Bash.
• Ability to independently manage technical initiatives involving multiple engineering teams and stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms and cloud-native services.
• Experience with microservice architectures and Kubernetes-based applications.
• Experience developing vulnerability-management automation and self-service security tools.
• Knowledge of Java dependency-management systems such as Gradle or Maven including transitive dependency analysis.
• Ability to collaborate with engineering infrastructure business compliance and external vendor teams.

Nice to have

• Masters degree in Computer Science Cybersecurity or Engineering.
• Practical experience deploying and troubleshooting applications in Kubernetes environments.
• Relevant hands-on security certifications from Hack The Box Offensive Security or another recognized practical security-training provider.
• Financial-services or other regulated-industry experience.