Vulnerability Assessment Engineer (Remote USA Opportunity)

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Summary

Defines the objectives of an enterprise threat and vulnerability management program.  Once defined, the successful candidate will drive the strategy, evaluation, process, execution, and operations of the vulnerability management program, with the responsibility to expand this program across Pure’s more than 100,000 asset-strong infrastructure.  The successful candidate will create closed-loop processes to drive vulnerability remediation across operational teams.

About the Role

You are responsible for designing and improving Pure’s vulnerability management infrastructure and processes.  You will work with key stakeholders to create strategies and actionable reporting for the prioritization and timely remediation of vulnerabilities.  Additionally, you will have ownership of the operational effectiveness and continuous improvement of the program.

Relevant Knowledge or Experience

• Ownership of a vulnerability management program.
• Computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
• Vulnerability management frameworks and concepts such as CVE, and CVSS Threat Intelligence and visibility into new threats.
• Risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk).
• Cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
• Application vulnerability classes, OWASP top 10, and common development mistakes.
• Knowledge of system administration, network, and operating system hardening techniques.
• Understanding of basic software development processes.
• Demonstrated experience and familiarity with vulnerability management.

Skills

• Manage the entire lifecycle of vulnerabilities from discovery, triage, advising, remediation, and validation.
• Program management with the ability to articulate an objective and lay out key milestones for reaching the objective within an allocated timeframe and budget.
• Work with business units to perform vulnerability assessments on systems or applications.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze data from disparate sources
• Make recommendations on required mitigation & remediation approaches.
• Use of network analysis tools to identify vulnerabilities. (e.g., fuzzing, nmap, nikto, Nessus, etc.).
• Strong foundation in network protocols (e.g. TCP, UDP, HTTP, IP).
• Conducting application vulnerability assessments.
• Ability to automate tasks using a preferred language (e.g. Python)
• Ability to interact with common APIs
• Performing impact/risk assessments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Experience

• 4+ years working in a vulnerability management program, and running a successful threat vulnerability program
• 8+ years working in security and/or IT functions in aggregate

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Pure Storage applies a geographic based pay structure depending on an employee’s location. For applicants located in Colorado (as required by SB19-085):

• The annual base salary range is: $124,000-$186,000. This role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity. 
• US Benefits Summary

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