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Security Engineer - Qualys/Tenable (Onsite/Hybrid)

Cognizant North America
life insurance, parental leave, paid time off, paid holidays, 401(k)
United States, Georgia, Atlanta
Jan 06, 2025

This position is on-site/hybrid in (Atlanta, Georgia). A qualified applicant must be local to this area or be open to relocation.

*Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

Practice - CIS - Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services

About Cloud Infrastructure & Security Services: Cognizant's Cloud, Infrastructure, and Security Services Practice (CIS), is all about embracing digital transformation by driving core modernization holistically across layers. We help customers transform infrastructure and workplace to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the digital era. Our holistic approach delivers key results for our customers by achieving cloud driven modernization and workplace and operational transformation to run the business in a secure environment.

Job Summary

The Security Engineer will work as a member of the Vulnerability Management Team. The Security Engineer will review and provide remediation direction on vulnerabilities found by the vulnerability scans performed by the VM Platform to maintain the confidentiality integrity and availability of company data. The Vulnerability Management Team is part of the overall Governance Risk and Compliance Program

Responsibilities & Qualifications:

  • Troubleshoot any Vulnerably Management tool related & scanning issues.
  • Manage the Vulnerably Management platform & scanners.
  • Management, Administration, Upgrades of Tenable, Qualys or other Vulnerably Management platforms
  • Document standard operating procedures (SOP)
  • Provide vulnerability analysis to stakeholders for resolution of discovered vulnerabilities or misconfigurations.
  • Engage with stakeholders and business units to resolve identified vulnerabilities.
  • Prioritize the remediation of vulnerabilities and close potential attack vectors.
  • Provide technical feedback on proposed solutions to identified vulnerabilities.
  • Plans, schedules, implements, and maintains scalable vulnerability scans using modern vulnerability management scanning tools for high complexity devices.
  • Ensuring safe and timely scanning that has minimal/no impact on scan targets, provides troubleshooting of technical issues with scans.
  • Conducts internal vulnerability audits of servers, network devices, applications, and other devices.
  • Interfaces with internal and external auditors, providing detailed information on remediation efforts.
  • Creates integrations of vulnerability management data with other enterprise services.
  • Conducts data analysis of vulnerability management data, often integrated with other data sources, to measure effectiveness of vulnerability remediation. Data analysis tasks include large datasets, which include structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
  • Interfaces with other teams to make recommendations on how to improve the security posture and reduce the number of security related vulnerabilities.
  • Conducts trend analysis, creates dashboards using data scripting to provide metrics on the performance of security responsibilities, controls, and creates new reports for management based on those collected metrics across multiple agencies.
  • Escalates as appropriate.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between [$84,600] - [$134,000] depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and is subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

  • Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
  • Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
  • 401(k) plan and contributions
  • Long-term/Short-term Disability
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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