Vulnerability Team Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of approximately 4 vulnerability management professionals.
• Conduct regular weekly check-ins with team members to discuss workload, development, client challenges, and technical issues.
• Provide day-to-day coaching and guidance to help the team navigate complex vulnerability management situations.
• Manage administrative responsibilities including timesheet review and approvals.
• Help prioritize workloads and ensure the team is operating efficiently across multiple client engagements.
• Serve as an escalation point for both technical and client-facing challenges.
• Build a positive, accountable team culture focused on development, collaboration, and strong client delivery.
Vulnerability & Exposure Management
• Lead vulnerability management activities across client environments, including vulnerability identification, prioritization, remediation tracking, and validation.
• Guide the team in determining which vulnerabilities present the greatest real-world risk based on severity, exploitability, asset criticality, exposure, and business impact.
• Help clients move beyond simply identifying vulnerabilities by supporting the remediation process through closure.
• Track critical and aging vulnerabilities and ensure appropriate escalation and remediation plans are in place.
• Support Attack Surface Management and Exposure Management initiatives across client environments.
• Work closely with client infrastructure, cloud, security, application, and operations teams to drive vulnerability remediation.
• Ensure vulnerabilities are retested and validated following remediation.

Requirements

• Tenable / Tenable.io / Tenable Vulnerability Management
• CrowdStrike
• Vulnerability Management
• Exposure Management
• Attack Surface Management
• Vulnerability remediation and prioritization
Experience with one or more of the following is highly valuable:
• Qualys
• Rapid7 / InsightVM
• Microsoft security and exposure management technologies
• Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management / Microsoft Exposure Management
• Develop strong relationships with Cyderes customers and act as a trusted vulnerability management advisor.
• Participate in client meetings, reviews, and escalations.
• Clearly communicate vulnerability findings, remediation priorities, trends, and risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Help customers understand not only what is vulnerable, but what needs to be fixed first and why.
• Ensure consistent service delivery and strong customer experience across the team's accounts.
• Support senior leadership by taking ownership of operational and client-related issues that would otherwise require escalation.