Engineer III, Vulnerability Management

Job Summary

The Engineer III - Vulnerability Management is a senior technical contributor responsible for identifying, analyzing, prioritizing, reporting, and driving remediation of vulnerabilities and posture findings across enterprise environments. This role supports and helps mature a unified, risk-based Vulnerability and Posture Management capability spanning infrastructure, endpoints, cloud workloads, network devices, applications, SaaS platforms, external attack surface, and other critical assets. The Engineer III will help lead Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) activities, operate and optimize attack surface management and vulnerability management tools, and partner with technology, security, and business stakeholders to measurably reduce cyber risk.

Primary Responsibilities

• Perform advanced vulnerability analysis across infrastructure, cloud, endpoint, network, application, SaaS, and externally facing assets.
• Lead and support Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) processes, including scoping, discovery, prioritization, validation, mobilization, and ongoing risk reduction activities.
• Operate and improve vulnerability management, attack surface management, external posture management, cloud posture and SaaS posture capabilities.
• Analyze vulnerability and posture data from multiple sources, normalize findings, and develop actionable risk-based remediation priorities.
• Assess vulnerabilities using business context, asset criticality, exploitability, threat intelligence, exposure, compensating controls, and regulatory or compliance impact.
• Drive remediation and risk treatment efforts with infrastructure, cloud, network, application, endpoint, DevOps, and business technology teams.
• Lead emerging vulnerability and critical exposure response activities, including impact analysis, stakeholder coordination, mitigation tracking, and executive-level status reporting.
• Create and maintain dashboards, metrics, and reporting for vulnerability trends, remediation progress, SLA performance, exposure reduction, attack surface changes, and program maturity.
• Support implementation and optimization of unified vulnerability management workflows, including ticketing, ownership assignment, exception handling, rescan validation, remediation automation, and governance routines.
• Evaluate and recommend improvements to scanning coverage, asset inventory quality, vulnerability data integrity, risk scoring, and stakeholder reporting.
• Translate complex technical findings into clear remediation guidance for technical teams and concise risk summaries for leadership.
• Contribute to security standards, procedures, playbooks, process documentation, and continuous improvement initiatives for the Vulnerability and Posture Management program.
• Mentor junior engineers and analysts by providing technical guidance, quality review, and support for vulnerability triage and remediation governance.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7-10 years of combined experience in information technology, cybersecurity, systems administration, cloud operations, network security, application security, security engineering, or related disciplines.
• At least 4 years of hands-on experience in vulnerability management, exposure management, attack surface management, configuration assurance, or a closely related cybersecurity function.
• At least one active cybersecurity certification, such as CISSP, CISM, Security+, CySA+, GSEC, CCSK, CCSP, OSCP, GIAC certification, or another recognized security certification.
• Strong understanding of vulnerability lifecycle management, including discovery, validation, prioritization, remediation, exception handling, rescan validation, and reporting.
• Experience using vulnerability assessment or vulnerability management platforms such as Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7 InsightVM, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, Wiz, Armis, or comparable tools.
• Experience with attack surface, posture, or exposure management capabilities such as CAASM, EASM, RBVM, CSPM, SSPM, external posture management, or security ratings platforms.
• Ability to interpret vulnerability findings, CVEs, CVSS, EPSS, threat intelligence, exploitability indicators, asset context, and compensating controls to prioritize risk.
• Experience working with enterprise asset data, CMDB data, ownership models, assignment groups, and business criticality attributes.
• Strong analytical skills with experience using Excel, Power BI, SQL, data lakes, reporting platforms, or other data analysis and visualization tools.
• Working knowledge of common security frameworks and standards such as NIST CSF, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001, CIS Critical Security Controls, PCI DSS, HIPAA, GDPR, OWASP Top 10, SANS Top 25, and MITRE ATT&CK.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical risk to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional remediation activities in a complex enterprise environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience helping build or mature a CTEM, exposure management, or unified risk-based vulnerability management program.
• Experience with vulnerability workflow automation, ServiceNow SecOps, Jira, SOAR, or similar remediation workflow platforms.
• Experience consolidating and normalizing vulnerability data across multiple source tools and integrating results into dashboards, remediation queues, or governance workflows.
• Experience with cloud security and cloud posture management across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or hybrid environments.
• Experience with external attack surface management, SaaS security posture management, configuration assurance, or third-party exposure management.
• Experience supporting regulatory, audit, customer assurance, or compliance reporting related to vulnerability and exposure management.
• Familiarity with scripting or automation using Python, PowerShell, APIs, or query languages to improve reporting, remediation tracking, and data quality.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and lead cross-functional initiatives across technical teams, business stakeholders, and security leadership.

Tools and Technologies

The successful candidate should be comfortable working with a broad ecosystem of vulnerability, posture, exposure, and reporting technologies. Relevant tools may include vulnerability scanners, endpoint vulnerability platforms, cloud security posture tools, external attack surface management tools, SaaS posture tools, risk-based vulnerability management platforms, workflow automation solutions, SIEM or threat intelligence platforms, ServiceNow, Power BI, Excel, SQL, and data integration technologies.

Key Competencies

• Risk-based decision making and prioritization
• Strong technical analysis and investigative discipline
• Enterprise stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination
• Clear communication of technical risk and business impact
• Operational excellence, process improvement, and automation mindset
• Data quality awareness and ability to reconcile conflicting tool outputs
• Ownership, accountability, and ability to lead initiatives with limited direction
• Ability to balance tactical remediation urgency with strategic program maturity

Success Measures

• Improved visibility and coverage across enterprise assets, including cloud, endpoint, network, application, SaaS, and externally exposed environments.
• Reduced critical and high-risk vulnerability exposure through effective prioritization, remediation governance, and stakeholder engagement.
• Improved mean time to remediate, vulnerability closure rate, and SLA adherence.
• Increased adoption of risk-based vulnerability management and CTEM practices across security and technology teams.
• Improved quality, consistency, and usability of vulnerability reporting, dashboards, ownership mapping, and remediation workflows.
• Demonstrated progress in reducing attack surface risk and improving overall security posture.

What Cencora offers

We provide compensation, benefits, and resources that enable a highly inclusive culture and support our team members’ ability to live with purpose every day. In addition to traditional offerings like medical, dental, and vision care, we also provide a comprehensive suite of benefits that focus on the physical, emotional, financial, and social aspects of wellness. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave. To encourage your personal growth, we also offer a variety of training programs, professional development resources, and opportunities to participate in mentorship programs, employee resource groups, volunteer activities, and much more. For details, visit

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