Lead Security Engineer – Vulnerability Management
ChennaiFull-time8–10 yrsPosted 3 weeks ago
Senior cybersecurity role at Staples India in Chennai. Needs 8–10 years.
About the role
This role is designed for a lead cybersecurity engineer with approximately 8+ years of experience in vulnerability management, exposure management, offensive security, application security, and security automation. The position serves as a technical lead and subject-matter expert for the vulnerability management function, helping shape the roadmap and owning delivery of maturity initiatives from approach through measurable outcomes.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end delivery of vulnerability management maturity projects, from defining the approach and success measures through implementation, adoption, and reporting
- Design and build automation and AI-assisted workflows for triage, enrichment, ticketing, and reporting that reduce manual effort and improve time to remediation
- Build and mature offensive security capabilities, including internal penetration testing, segmentation testing, purple-team exercises
- Evaluate and onboard new security capabilities, running proofs of concept and recommending adopt, extend, or retire decisions
- Define runbooks, quality standards, and handoff practices for operational work, and coach engineers as proven processes are scaled across teams
What you need
- Vulnerability assessment
- Penetration testing
- Python
- CISA
- LLMs
- API testing
Good to have
- CISSP
- ServiceNow
- Git
- IoT
- UVM
- REST APIs