Vulnerability Management Team Lead

GovCIO is seeking a Vulnerability Management Team Lead to drive enterprise vulnerability strategy for federal IT environments. You will lead a small team of analysts, own scan and assessment operations, and partner with engineering and security stakeholders to prioritize and remediate findings. Responsibilities include developing risk-based metrics and dashboards, optimizing tooling and automation, ensuring compliance with federal standards, and supporting incident response. This role is ideal for a hands-on cybersecurity leader passionate about securing mission-critical government systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the vulnerability management team and mentor analysts
• Own vulnerability scanning, assessment, and reporting processes
• Prioritize and track remediation with infrastructure and app teams
• Develop risk-based metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting
• Maintain vulnerability management policies, standards, and procedures
• Coordinate scan scheduling, exception handling, and change control
• Integrate vulnerability tools with SIEM/ITSM platforms
• Collaborate with federal stakeholders to meet compliance requirements
• Support incident response with vulnerability context and guidance
• Continuously improve tooling, workflows, and automation

Required Skills

• Vulnerability management
• Vulnerability scanning tools (Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7)
• Risk assessment and prioritization
• Patch and remediation coordination
• SIEM and ITSM integration
• Security standards and compliance (NIST, FISMA)
• Reporting and dashboarding
• Scripting/automation (Python, Power
• Shell)
• Incident response support
• Team leadership and mentoring