Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer

Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer

Meet the Team
Are you passionate about making a real difference in cybersecurity? At Cisco, our Vulnerability Management team (part of Splunk Global Security) is at the forefront of protecting the technologies and products that power the world’s data insights. We do more than just uncover technical vulnerabilities — we take a multidisciplinary, risk-based approach to security, identifying not only system flaws but also process and operational risks that could impact our product.

• Build solutions/capabilities within the scope of Vulnerability Management to further improve Splunk’s Vulnerability Management Program (e.g., automation, data analysis, process development).
• Act as SME (subject matter expert) for vulnerability management and processes.
• Analyze vulnerability data/identifying trends to perform root-cause analysis.
• Assist in development of new security standards and baselines.
• Perform vulnerability assessments and act as a point of contact for engineering teams to drive remediation of security concerns and active incidents.
• Respond to emerging security events and threats.
• Triage vulnerabilities to provide company specific severity guidance.
• Ensure remediation team compliance to regulatory standards.
• Comfortably lead security discussions, vulnerability assessments, propose and discuss solutions to security tools that are directly related to their area of focus.
• Develop SOPs, performance metrics, and reporting mechanisms aligned with SLAs and critical metrics.
• Engage with leadership, customers, and auditors to provide updates, recommendations, and briefings.

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience in a vulnerability management engineering or information security capacity or Master’s degree with 6+ years of experience; or PhD with 5+ years of related experience.
• Must have experience with risk-based vulnerability management/configuration compliance assessments and security concepts and prioritization methodologies.
• Able to communicate risk and urgency to executives, program, and technical staff.
• Demonstrable proficiency with vulnerability scanning and configuration compliance platforms such as Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Wiz, Prisma, or similar.
• Familiarity with how to assess and implement external configuration compliance standards such as CIS Benchmarks and DISA STIGs.
• Understanding of security features in Container and Container Orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to balance security needs with business impact while addressing systemic security issues through root cause analysis, building security solutions, and project leadership.
• Knowledge of common security threats, such as attack-techniques, evasive techniques, and preventative & defensive methods.
• Deep knowledge of cloud operational models and secure SaaS architecture in a world of containerized microservices.
• Familiarity of compliance requirements for certifications like PCI DSS, SOC2, HIPAA, FedRAMP.

• Functional in using Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL).
• Excellent working experience in applying FISMA, and FedRAMP processes and policies to information systems.
• Experience with scripting and automation (e.g., Python, SOAR) to automate scanning tasks, reporting, and API integrations.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, CompTIA CySA+, Cloud Vendor security credentials.

Starting salary range is $ – $.