Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer-Qualys

Project overview

Required Qualifications

Job Facts: Contract Independent | Contract W2 | 12 Months | 25% Travel Required | Hybrid | $60 - $70/hr

Skills: Qualys, Vulnerability Management

Reference: Dice Id: 90960197 | Position Id: 9092409

• 7+ Years of hands-on experience in Vulnerability Management, security engineering, infrastructure security, or a closely related cybersecurity discipline.
• Demonstrated experience managing vulnerabilities throughout the complete vulnerability lifecycle, including:
• Identification
• Triage
• Risk evaluation
• Ownership determination
• Stakeholder outreach
• Remediation tracking
• Escalation
• Validation
• Closure
• Strong hands-on experience with an enterprise vulnerability management platform such as Qualys VMDR, Tenable, Rapid7, or equivalent technology.
• Strong understanding of vulnerability management concepts including CVE, CVSS, CPE, exploitability, vulnerability severity, compensating controls, remediation, mitigation, false positives, and risk acceptance.
• Ability to read and interpret vulnerability scanner results and independently investigate findings.
• Experience communicating vulnerabilities and remediation requirements to system administrators, application teams, engineers, and technical leadership.
• Experience managing high volumes of vulnerability data within a large or complex technology environment.
• Ability to identify responsible system or application owners and drive findings toward remediation.
• Experience validating vulnerability remediation through rescanning, technical testing, or evidence review.
• Strong understanding of common operating systems, including Windows and Linux.
• Working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure technologies including networking, servers, databases, middleware, virtualization, and cloud environments.
• Understand common vulnerability remediation methods including patching, configuration changes, software upgrades, compensating controls, and service removal.
• Ability to analyze technical security information from multiple sources and determine practical organizational risk.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to independently prioritize and manage multiple vulnerability remediation efforts simultaneously.

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Duration: 12 Months
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Plano, TX, US, US