Vulnerability Management Specialist
Job ID
R25_00000395
Team
Other
Posted Date
Feb 05, 2025
Travel
Location
Mississauga, Ontario
Eligible for Remote
Contract Type
Security Clearance
Description
Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we’re the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.
The Specialist performs detailed review of the vulnerability management report and puts it in an actionable format for the client to act on the remediation plan. The specialist must be the subject matter expert on building, executing and managing a vulnerability management program. The Specialist applies trusted advisor techniques on all engagements with clients.
What You’ll Do:
Services Delivery (65%)
- Deployment of vulnerability management solutions across different clients’ environments.
- Develop scan templates and ensure they are tuned and tailored to prevent congestion in clients’ network.
- Schedule discovery and vulnerability scans based on agreed upon cadence with the client in line with best practice.
- Customize vulnerability scan reports to guide the clients on remediation prioritization and deliver the reports to clients.
- Create recast rules on the vulnerability management platform to account for compensating controls.
- Create dashboards to provide oversight to the executives on existing risks and the performance of the vulnerability management program.
- Develop key lead and performance indicators to provide insights into issues that needs to be fixed in the vulnerability management program before it becomes a problem.
- Set up credentialed scans
- Troubleshoot issues that arise with the failure of credentialed scans and work with the clients where applicable to provide resolution.
- Upgrade and maintenance of the vulnerability management infrastructure.
- Create scan templates for network devices
- Collaborate with clients to ensure adequate scan coverage of all in scope assets.
- Set up and manage compliance related scans
- Deployment of vulnerability management tools to scan cloud infrastructure.
- Create and share vulnerability management reports with clients via Service Now.
- Automate the reporting flow between vulnerability management platform and case management for end-to-end tracking of vulnerabilities on assets.
- Apply threat intelligence to vulnerability management report during remediation prioritization.
- Create tags for asset grouping on the vulnerability management platform.
- Open support cases with vendors where applicable.
Professional Development (35%)
- Attend training sessions or shadowing activities and obtain industry-related certifications as determined by the Manager.
- Participate in all in-house CTFs and self-paced training.
Qualifications
What You Need to Succeed:
Must-Have:
- Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.S.) or 3-year diploma in Engineering, Computer Science, or Technology related field
- At least 4 years of work experience in building and running a vulnerability management program and patching vulnerabilities.
- At least one (1) technical certification in the technologies for which Sirius offers Managed Security Services. These may include, but are not limited to: Tenable, Rapid7, Qualys Guard
- Any of cybersecurity focused certifications: Comptia Security +, Comptia CYSA, SANS: GCIA, GCIH, CEH and so on.
Other Position Requirements:
- The candidate must be proactive and pay attention to details.
- works collaboratively with other teammates.
- Takes ownership and drives issues towards a resolution.
- A good understanding of IT infrastructure systems, Cybersecurity fundamentals, vulnerability management fundamentals, endpoint and server administrations, network routing and switching, network traffic analysis and administration.
- Ability to acquire technical skills and certifications required to effectively execute the role, develop familiarity with industry or specialty products/services, and apply the knowledge gained through training.
- Ability to investigate problems and use standard operating procedures and processes to resolve them.
- Good troubleshooting and problem-solving skills. Possess an innate curiosity and critical thinking mindset.
- Ability to establish positive working relationships and contribute to team objectives in a consulting environment.
- Good verbal, written communication skills and the confidence to engage the clients effectively.
- Proven time management and organizational skills
- Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint, and Outlook skills
Nice-to-have:
- Previous experience working in a managed security services environment.
At CDW, we strive to offer market-competitive total rewards packages to attract and retain talent. As such, we are committed to pay transparency and ensuring fair compensation for all our coworkers. Each of our roles is assigned a salary range that is informed by multiple sources of market data. We determine individual pay within a given range based on a candidate's prior experience, knowledge, skills and abilities. This approach allows us to offer competitive and equitable salaries that reflect the value and responsibilities of each role at CDW.
Salary : $96,000
Who we are:
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations across the globe. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced start-ups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.
What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers.
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you’ll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self—and your best ideas—to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving—and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.