Leads and mentors a four-person vulnerability management team while remaining hands-on with vulnerability identification, prioritization, remediation tracking, validation, and exposure management. The manager serves as a technical and client-facing escalation point, guides remediation across infrastructure and security teams, oversees workload and service delivery, and communicates risks and priorities to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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About the Role:
Cyderes is seeking a hands-on Vulnerability Management Manager to lead a small, high-performing vulnerability management team while remaining closely connected to the technical work.
This role is ideal for someone who is both a strong people leader and experienced vulnerability management technologist. The successful candidate will manage and mentor a team of four, support client delivery, help resolve technical and operational challenges, and take ownership of day-to-day responsibilities that allow senior leadership to focus on broader strategic initiatives.
The Vulnerability Management Manager will report directly to Andrew and serve as a trusted leader across the vulnerability and exposure management function.
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.
- 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.
Vulnerability & Exposure Management
Requirements
- Tenable / Tenable.io / Tenable Vulnerability Management
- CrowdStrike
- Vulnerability Management
- Exposure Management
- Attack Surface Management
- Vulnerability remediation and prioritization
- 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.
Experience with one or more of the following is highly valuable:
WHY CYDERES?
Benefits that go beyond the basics, we support our people so they can do their best work.
✔ Medical Insurance - Employee + dependents covered
✔ Life Insurance - Protection for what matters most
✔ Retirement Match Program - We invest in your future
✔ Hybrid Work Model - 2–3 days in office
✔ Maternity & Paternity Leave - Time for the moments that matter
✔ Paid Time Off - PTO + sick & casual leave
✔ Bereavement & Volunteer Time - Give back to your community
✔ Professional Development - Reimbursement program
✔ LinkedIn L&D Platform - Thousands of courses at your fingertips
✔ Mobile Phone Reimbursement - Stay connected, on us
Cyderes is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, national origin, or veteran status.
Note: This job posting is intended for direct applicants only. We request that outside recruiters do not contact us regarding this position.
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