Security Threat and Vulnerability Program Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Regularly monitor, identify, consolidate, and report on technical security threats affecting the university network.

• Create predictive analytics strategies and risk-based security intelligence products to address advanced threat actors and evolving challenges.

• Design and manage comprehensive programs for Third-Party Risk Management and Dark Web Cyber Threat Intelligence.

• Investigate security alerts, correlate indicators of compromise (IOCs), and conduct software/malware analysis to assess impact and attacker methodologies.

• Develop and optimize security use cases within SIEM and logging environments for real-time threat detection.

• Coordinate vulnerability scanning efforts, translate findings into actionable mitigation strategies, and oversee contractors strategically.

• Effectively communicate complex technical analyses to senior leadership and collaborate with cross-functional IT teams to enhance the cyber program continuously.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Associate’s Degree in a technical discipline (e.g., Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology).

• Alternatively, 5 to 10 years of highly relevant professional experience in information security may be accepted in place of a formal degree.

• Proven experience in a role as a Threat Analyst or in Vulnerability Management.

• Proficiency in scripting or programming languages, such as Python, for automating data analysis and centralization tasks.

• Strong understanding of threat centralization tools, security threats, and contemporary detection techniques.

• Ability to integrate, normalize, and correlate extensive volumes of disparate security data to uncover complex patterns and trends.

• Experience in utilizing and configuring enterprise-level vulnerability scanning and assessment tools.

• Demonstrated capability to conduct data analysis for attributing cyber-attacks to specific threat actors and behaviors.

• Proven experience with advanced security tools and controls aimed at proactive threat detection.

• Professional security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CEH, CompTIA Security+, or GIAC certifications such as GCIH/GCIA).

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical

• Dental

• Vision

• Disability and life insurance

• Retirement savings

• Tuition assistance

• Work-life balance benefits

• Employee discounts

• A variety of voluntary insurance options