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Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer

Rapport ITPlano, TX🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 22, 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Plano, TX, United States
Posted
Yesterday

Job Description

Required Qualifications

  • 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.

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