Manager of Vulnerability Management

Available Locations: Lisbon Portugal or London UK

Cloudflare is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Manager of Vulnerability Management to lead our efforts in identifying assessing prioritising and remediating security vulnerabilities across our technology landscape. This critical role will be responsible for developing implementing and maintaining a robust vulnerability management program that effectively reduces our organisations risk exposure. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical expertise excellent leadership skills and a deep understanding of cybersecurity best practices.

Responsibilities:

• Program Leadership and Strategy:
• Develop implement and maintain the organisations vulnerability management strategy policies standards and procedures.
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to measure the effectiveness of the vulnerability management program.
• Stay abreast of the latest vulnerability trends threats and industry best practices.
• Contribute to the overall cybersecurity strategy and risk management efforts of the organisation.
• Vulnerability Identification and Assessment:
• Oversee the regular execution of vulnerability scanning activities across various environments (e.g. network applications containers cloud).
• Manage and optimize vulnerability scanning tools and processes to ensure comprehensive and accurate identification of weaknesses.
• Align with asset inventory and system categorisation for effective vulnerability scanning and management.
• Vulnerability Analysis and Prioritisation:
• Lead the analysis of vulnerability scan results.
• Develop and implement a risk-based prioritisation framework for vulnerabilities based on severity exploitability asset criticality and business impact.
• Collaborate with relevant teams to understand the context and potential impact of identified vulnerabilities.
• Remediation and Mitigation:
• Work closely with engineering and other stakeholders to define remediation plans and timelines for identified vulnerabilities.
• Track and monitor the progress of vulnerability remediation efforts ensuring adherence to established SLAs.
• Facilitate the development and implementation of mitigating controls when immediate remediation is not feasible.
• Provide guidance and support to teams on vulnerability prevention and security best practices.
• Reporting and Communication:
• Develop and deliver clear and concise reports on vulnerability status trends remediation progress and adherence to remediation SLAs to management and relevant stakeholders.
• Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences regarding vulnerability risks and remediation efforts.
• Escalate critical vulnerabilities and remediation roadblocks in a timely manner.
• Team Leadership and Development:
• Build mentor and manage a high-performing vulnerability management team.
• Assign tasks set goals and provide regular feedback and coaching to team members.
• Foster a collaborative and knowledge-sharing environment within the team.
• Support the professional development and training of team members.
• Tooling and Automation:
• Evaluate select and implement vulnerability management tools and technologies.
• Drive automation efforts to streamline vulnerability scanning analysis and reporting processes.
• Integrate vulnerability management tools with other security and engineering systems.
• Compliance and Audit:
• Ensure the vulnerability management program aligns with relevant regulatory requirements industry standards internal policies and control requirements.
• Support internal and external audits related to vulnerability management practices.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Security or a related field.
• Experience in information security with a significant focus on vulnerability management.
• Proven experience in leading and managing vulnerability assessment and remediation efforts across diverse environments.
• Strong understanding of common vulnerability scoring systems (e.g. CVSS) and risk assessment methodologies.
• Experience with vulnerability scanning tools (e.g. Qualys Nessus Rapid7 InsightVM) and Unified Vulnerability & Exposure Management tools (e.g. TruRisk Brinqa Nucleus)
• Experience with static and runtime container scanning technologies.
• Familiarity with application security testing tools and techniques (SAST/DAST).
• Knowledge of security frameworks and standards (e.g. NIST ISO 27001).
• Excellent analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with technical and non-technical teams.
• Proven ability to lead and motivate a team (if applicable).
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g. Python) for automation.
• Experience with threat intelligence platforms and integrating threat data into vulnerability prioritisation.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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