Vulnerability Management Engineer
Cognizant
We are looking for a Vulnerability Management professional to own and coordinate the end-to-end remediation lifecycle for workstation environments. The role will focus on assessing vulnerability risk, prioritising remediation activities, coordinating resolution across the team, validating fixes, and providing clear reporting on remediation progress and system health.
Key Responsibilities
Vulnerability Management Lifecycle
- Own the remediation of vulnerabilities identified across workstation environments, including laptops, desktops, VDI, ThinPC, and Moonshots.
- Perform risk assessments using CVSS scores and prioritise vulnerabilities and remediation activities accordingly.
- Assign vulnerabilities and remediation activities to appropriate team members and ensure clear, timely communication through to resolution.
- Track remediation activities to ensure vulnerabilities are addressed within agreed timelines.
Monitoring, Validation & Reporting
- Monitor vulnerability remediation progress using Brinqa dashboards and Smartsheets.
- Coordinate and conduct re-scanning after remediation to validate that identified vulnerabilities have been successfully resolved, with results typically reflected within two weeks.
- Provide regular reporting and metrics on remediation progress, team performance, outstanding vulnerabilities, and overall system health.
- Highlight overdue or higher-risk remediation items to support timely resolution and effective risk management.
Key Skills & Experience
- Experience in vulnerability management, remediation coordination, or a related security/endpoint management function.
- Understanding of vulnerability risk assessment and CVSS scoring.
- Experience working with workstation or endpoint environments such as laptops, desktops, VDI, and thin-client platforms.
- Ability to monitor remediation activity using dashboards, trackers, or similar reporting tools.
- Strong coordination, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to produce clear operational metrics and status reporting.
- Experience with Brinqa and Smartsheets is beneficial.
Reference: WJ-766_23772861