Principal Engineer - VMS

The Principal Engineer will be responsible for creation of procedures, implementation of processes and development of staff for managing and maintaining security systems across internal and client environments.  The Principal Engineer will work closely with Management, Senior Engineers, Solution Architects, Senior Security Engineers, other Principal Security Engineers and clients to complete high profile, critical services to existing Managed Security Service clients.  Serve as a subject matter expert and team lead for Managed Security Services, staying in tune with all client configuration issues and all internal projects.

How you’ll make an impact

• Experience analyzing risk and prioritization of vulnerabilities, validating vulnerability reports, and driving remediation.

• Experience with performing enterprise-wide networking scanning, agent scan, and container, including a credential scan of UNIX, Windows, Network devices, and VMware

• Understanding of the overall threat and vulnerability management process, including metrics to measure performance

• Knowledge of Unix, Windows, and AWS infrastructure, basic understanding of administrative functions to support patching queries.

• Responsible for defining scan policies and audit policies

• Responsible for adding scan credentials

• Responsible for Scheduling scans

• Responsible for Generating Scan Reports

• Responsible for the Analysis and validation of the scan results.

• Responsible the Monitoring the dashboards.

• Responsible for defining and configuring dashboards

• Ability to foster collaborative, open, working relationships with technology and other stakeholders.

What we’re looking for

• 8+ years relevant experience working with Threat and Vulnerability Management tools.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with vulnerability management processes and tools (e.g., Tenable, Qualys, Nmap, Lumin, Brinqa.)

• Experience analyzing risk and prioritization of vulnerabilities, validating vulnerability reports and driving remediation.

• Experience with performing enterprise-wide networking scanning, agent scan, container, including credential scan of UNIX, Windows, Network devices, and VMware

• Understanding of the overall threat and vulnerability management process, including metrics to measure performance

• Knowledge of Unix, Windows and AWS infrastructure, basic understanding of administrative functions to support patching queries.

• Responsible for defining scan policies and audit policies

• Responsible for adding scan credentials

• Responsible for Scheduling scans

• Responsible for Generating Scan Reports

• Responsible for the Analysis and validation of the scan results.

• Responsible for Monitoring the dashboards.

• Responsible for defining and configuring dashboards

• Ability to foster collaborative, open, working relationships with technology and other stakeholders.

• Familiarity with compliance requirements and frameworks (e.g., ISO, NIST, SOC).

• Ready to relocate to Bangalore

• This team provides 24/7 support and Work from Office role

What you can expect from Optiv

• 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

Optiv is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age 40 and over, marital status, genetic information, national origin, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state, or local law.

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