Vulnerability Remediation Engineer

Position - Vulnerability Remediation Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale CA or Bellevue WA

Employment Type: Contract

Job Summary

We are seeking experienced Vulnerability Remediation Engineers to support and scale a growing Vulnerability Management (VM) program. The ideal candidates will focus on identifying, prioritizing, and driving remediation of security vulnerabilities across enterprise environments using modern automation and agentic tooling.

This role is highly execution-oriented and centered around remediation coordination, operational efficiency, and collaboration with internal technical SMEs rather than deep offensive security research or advanced exploit development.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the setup, stabilization, and operationalization of the Vulnerability Management (VM) program foundation.
• Utilize agentic and automation-based security tools to streamline vulnerability tracking, remediation workflows, and reporting.
• Manage and remediate a high volume of newly discovered and existing vulnerabilities across infrastructure, applications, endpoints, and cloud environments.
• Partner with internal technical experts, infrastructure teams, application owners, and security stakeholders to validate remediation approaches.
• Track remediation SLAs, prioritize critical vulnerabilities, and ensure timely closure.
• Assist with vulnerability triage, risk assessment, and remediation planning.
• Coordinate patching activities and validate remediation completion.
• Document remediation procedures, workflows, and operational standards.
• Generate remediation status reports, metrics, and dashboards for leadership visibility.
• Improve operational processes and automation within the VM lifecycle.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience working in Vulnerability Management, Security Operations, Infrastructure Security, or related cybersecurity roles.
• Strong understanding of vulnerability remediation processes and lifecycle management.
• Familiarity with common vulnerability scanning and VM tools such as:
• Tenable Nessus
• Qualys
• Rapid7 InsightVM
• Microsoft Defender
• Understanding of patch management and remediation coordination.
• Ability to manage large vulnerability backlogs in enterprise environments.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional infrastructure and application teams.
• Strong organizational, communication, and follow-up skills.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced remediation-focused environments.