Vulnerability Remediation Engineer Linux Software Engineer Ii Multinational Retail Convenience Store Years T995
Vulnerability Remediation Engineer - Linux.
Description
This role will support the vulnerability management life cycle with a focus on patching, remediating and mitigating vulnerabilities on Linux systems.
Responsibilities
· Conduct vulnerability scans, analyze reports, and validate potential findings.
· Track and provide metrics on vulnerabilities and remediation.
· Patch Linux systems (e.g. Ubuntu, Oracle Linux, RHEL, SuSE, Debian) within on-Prem and cloud environments.
· Provide reports on vulnerabilities, exploits and patches.
· Create risk narratives that explain threat exposure to the enterprise.
· Gather vulnerability and threat information from various internal and external sources.
· Provide technical assistance to owners of the impacted systems and applications to remediate and mitigate vulnerabilities.
· Other duties as assigned.
Basic Qualification
· 3-5 Years of hands-on Information Security experience within a Linux environment.
· Comprehensive understanding of Vulnerability Management capabilities.
· Extensive experience with vulnerability scanning technologies, e.g. Qualys, Nessus, InsightVM.
· Extensive experience with web application scanners, e.g. InsightAppSec, Veracode.
· Expert knowledge of Linux operating systems.
· Expert knowledge in validating and triaging vulnerabilities.
· Assertive, proactive attitude to assist with and solve challenging issues.
· Stays current with new and existing vulnerabilities and related news.
· Ability to automate and script tasks using Python.
· experience in a regulated environment, e.g. PCI-DSS, Sarbanes Oxley.
· Ability to participate in cross functional teams, including remote resources.
Preferred Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with an Information Security focus.
· Information Security industry certification, e.g. CISSP, Security +, CEH.