Developer - Threat Management Platform | Remote

At Optiv, we’re on a mission to help our clients make their businesses more secure. We’re one of the fastest growing companies in a truly essential industry.

In your role, you’ll be inspired by a team of the brightest business and technical minds in cybersecurity. We are passionate champions for our clients and know from experience that the best solution for our clients’ needs come from working hard together. As part of our team, your voice matters, and you will do important work that has impact, on people, businesses, and nations. Our industry and our company move fast, and you can be sure that you will always have room to learn and grow. We’re proud of our team and the important work we do to build confidence for a more connected world.

As a Threat Management Platform Developer, you’ll play a key role in supporting and enhancing our cybersecurity reporting ecosystem by managing and customizing the PlexTrac platform. You’ll work closely with security teams to streamline assessment workflows, develop actionable reporting templates, and drive platform integrations that align with internal processes. This role is ideal for someone with 1–4 years of experience in cybersecurity or platform development, who’s passionate about operational efficiency, automation, and offensive security tooling.

Who we are looking for:

You’ll serve as a platform technical enabler, responsible for managing, enhancing, and evolving platform to support efficient cybersecurity reporting and threat exposure workflows. This includes:

• Optimizing platform usage by identifying repetitive reporting and workflow processes within security teams that can be centralized or automated using PlexTrac.
• Collaborating with Penetration Testers to translate technical assessment data into standardized, actionable reports and dashboards.
• Enhancing platform capabilities by developing and customizing templates, integrations, and automations using PlexTrac APIs and scripting frameworks.
• Conducting research to identify innovative features and integrations that support continuous threat exposure management.
• Supporting offensive security teams by integrating outputs from tools such as Burp Suite, Nessus, Nmap, Metasploit, and custom scripts into PlexTrac workflows.
• Building parsers and automation scripts to ingest and normalize data from red team engagements, vulnerability scans, and threat simulations.

How you’ll make an impact:

• 1 - 4 years’ experience of implementation and development of cybersecurity reporting or threat exposure management platform etc.
• Proficiency in Python and relevant libraries (e.g., gingerit, Pandas, Requests).
• Experience with RESTful APIs, data parsing, and JSON/XML.
• Familiarity with security tools, scanners (like Nessus or Burp Suite), and threat intelligence feeds is a plus.
• Strong communication skills to work across technical and non-technical teams.
• A passion for improving security workflows and a curiosity for automation and tooling.
• Ability to create efficient, well-documented, and reusable scripts and tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

What you can expect:

• A company committed to championing Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion through our Employee Resource Groups.
• Work/life balance
• Professional training resources
• Creative problem-solving and the ability to tackle unique, complex projects
• Volunteer Opportunities. “Optiv Chips In” encourages employees to volunteer and engage with their teams and communities.
• The ability and technology necessary to productively work remotely/from home (where applicable)

EEO Statement

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