Senior Vulnerability Management Lead (Tenable Expert)

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NCS Australia is seeking a Senior Vulnerability Management Specialist to own and uplift vulnerability management operations for a major Australian client based in Sydney. You will manage Tenable day-to-day, drive risk-based remediation with multiple teams, and lead incident responses to critical vulnerabilities.

You will implement automation using Tenable APIs, maintain data quality across CMDB and cloud inventories, and build executive dashboards.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in cyber security or infrastructure operations.
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Responsibilities

• Operate and tune the Tenable platform day to day: scan policies and schedules, credentialed and agent-based scanning, scanner and agent health, asset tagging and access controls.
• Own scan coverage and data quality by reconciling Tenable against the CMDB, cloud inventories and endpoint tooling, then closing blind spots and authentication failures.
• Triage and prioritise findings on risk (VPR, CVSS, EPSS, known exploited vulnerabilities, asset criticality and internet exposure).
• Drive remediation with infrastructure, cloud, network and application teams: raise and track work through the ITSM tool, agree treatment plans, hold owners to SLAs and verify fixes by rescan.
• Lead the response to critical and zero-day vulnerabilities, from rapid exposure assessment to confirmed closure.
• Manage false positives, exceptions and risk acceptances with proper evidence, approval and expiry.
• Build dashboards and reporting for operations and executives covering coverage, SLA performance, ageing and risk trend, including evidence for Essential Eight and audit requirements.
• Automate and integrate using the Tenable API with Python or PowerShell, connecting vulnerability data to ITSM, CMDB, SIEM and patching tools.
• Document runbooks and operating procedures, and coach analysts and support teams so the capability outlasts the contract.

Skills

Cyber security operations

Vulnerability management

Incident response

Stakeholder communication

Risk assessment

IT governance

Tools

Tenable One Vulnerability Management

Nessus

ServiceNow

Python

PowerShell

AWS / Azure

Job description

NCS Australia is seeking a Senior Vulnerability Management Specialist to own and uplift vulnerability management operations for a major Australian client based in Sydney. You will manage Tenable day-to-day, drive risk-based remediation with multiple teams, and lead incident responses to critical vulnerabilities.

You will implement automation using Tenable APIs, maintain data quality across CMDB and cloud inventories, and build executive dashboards.