Security Engineer II - Cloud & Vulnerability Management
Own and improve vulnerability-management operations across cloud, on-premises, network, and endpoint environments, driving risk-based prioritization, remediation, SLA tracking, and closure validation. The role requires 3–5 years of security experience, including direct vulnerability-management responsibility, plus incident support and on-call participation.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own recurring vulnerability scanning, triage, risk-based prioritization, remediation tracking, exception follow-up, and closure validation across hybrid infrastructure.
- Operate and improve vulnerability-management tooling, including Rapid7 InsightVM or comparable platforms.
- Use Wiz and other asset or cloud-security data to add workload, exposure, ownership, and business context to vulnerability decisions.
- Maintain visibility into servers, network devices, endpoints, cloud workloads, and other in-scope assets by reconciling scanner, endpoint, cloud, and inventory data.
- Prioritize findings using exploitability, exposure, asset criticality, business impact, compensating controls, and threat intelligence.
- Partner with Engineering, SRE, IT, and Infrastructure teams to assign owners, agree on remediation plans, manage blockers, and verify risk reduction.
- Track remediation SLAs, exceptions, recurring weaknesses, and coverage gaps; escalate material risk with clear evidence.
- Produce concise reporting for technical teams and security leadership.
- Recommend improvements to patching, configuration hygiene, asset ownership, reporting, and remediation workflows.
- Lead and support security incidents as part of an on-call rotation.
- Maintain runbooks, evidence, scan records, and remediation documentation for operational continuity and audit readiness.
- Use AI-assisted tools for triage, analysis, reporting, and workflow improvement while protecting sensitive data and validating outputs.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience operating a recurring vulnerability-management program or major workstream.
- Experience with vulnerability discovery, triage, risk-based prioritization, remediation coordination, and closure validation.
- Experience working with infrastructure, endpoint, network, or cloud asset owners to drive remediation.
- Practical experience with Rapid7 InsightVM, Tenable, Qualys, or an equivalent platform.
- Experience supporting security incidents as part of an on-call rotation.
- Vulnerability-management experience in a hybrid environment; AWS experience preferred.
- Understanding of CVE/CVSS concepts, exploitability, asset criticality, network exposure, and compensating controls.
- Working knowledge of infrastructure and network security fundamentals.
- Ability to translate technical findings into clear priorities and actions.
- Demonstrated ownership, follow-through, and escalation of blockers.
- Professional experience using AI-assisted tools with appropriate review, validation, and data-handling judgment.
- Typically 3–5 years of relevant security experience, including at least 2 years of direct vulnerability-management responsibility.
Nice-to-haves
- Rapid7 InsightVM experience.
- Wiz or another CSPM platform experience.
- Experience reconciling scanner data with CMDB, endpoint, cloud inventory, or ticketing systems.
- Familiarity with CIS Benchmarks, CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, EPSS, and risk-exception workflows.
- Scripting, API, workflow automation, or security-reporting experience.
- Experience improving asset coverage, remediation SLA performance, backlog quality, or recurring-finding rates.
- Experience across cloud, on-premises, network, and endpoint assets.
- Experience creating repeatable, securely validated AI-assisted security workflows.
- Relevant degree or certifications such as Security+, CySA+, or a cloud-security certification.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans.
- Company-paid life and disability insurance.
- 401(k) and Roth IRA retirement plans.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- Employee onboarding, training, and professional development resources.
- Wellbeing offerings and pre-tax savings accounts with company contributions.
- Employee referral bonuses.
Skills
Vulnerability Management, Rapid7 Insightvm, Wiz, AWS, Tenable, Qualys, Cve, Cvss, Cspm, Cis Benchmarks, Epss, Scripting, API, Workflow Automation, Security+ Certificates
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