Vulnerability Management Engineer

Cognizant; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Vulnerability Management professional to own the end-to-end remediation lifecycle for workstation environments. You will assess vulnerability risk using CVSS, prioritise remediation activities, coordinate resolution across the team, and validate fixes while delivering clear remediation progress reports.

The role requires strong coordination, stakeholder management, and experience with endpoint environments such as laptops, desktops, and VDI.

Qualifications

• Experience in vulnerability management and remediation coordination.
• Understanding of CVSS scoring and risk prioritisation.
• Ability to monitor remediation activity with dashboards/trackers.

Responsibilities

• Own the vulnerability remediation lifecycle across workstation environments (laptops, desktops, VDI, ThinPC).
• Perform risk assessments using CVSS scores and prioritise remediation actions.
• Assign remediation tasks to team members and ensure timely communication until resolution.
• Track remediation progress to ensure timely closure within agreed timelines.
• Provide regular reporting and metrics on remediation progress and system health.
• Highlight overdue or high-risk items to support risk management.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Remediation coordination

CVSS scoring

Stakeholder management

Reporting and metrics

End-to-end remediation lifecycle

Operational dashboards

Education

Tools

Brinqa

Smartsheets

Job description

We are looking for a Vulnerability Management professional to own and coordinate the end-to-end remediation lifecycle for workstation environments. The role will focus on assessing vulnerability risk, prioritising remediation activities, coordinating resolution across the team, validating fixes, and providing clear reporting on remediation progress and system health.

Key Responsibilities

Vulnerability Management Lifecycle

• Own the remediation of vulnerabilities identified across workstation environments, including laptops, desktops, VDI, ThinPC, and Moonshots.
• Perform risk assessments using CVSS scores and prioritise vulnerabilities and remediation activities accordingly.
• Assign vulnerabilities and remediation activities to appropriate team members and ensure clear, timely communication through to resolution.
• Track remediation activities to ensure vulnerabilities are addressed within agreed timelines.

Monitoring, Validation & Reporting

• Monitor vulnerability remediation progress using Brinqa dashboards and Smartsheets.
• Coordinate and conduct re-scanning after remediation to validate that identified vulnerabilities have been successfully resolved, with results typically reflected within two weeks.
• Provide regular reporting and metrics on remediation progress, team performance, outstanding vulnerabilities, and overall system health.
• Highlight overdue or higher-risk remediation items to support timely resolution and effective risk management.

Key Skills & Experience

• Experience in vulnerability management, remediation coordination, or a related security/endpoint management function.
• Understanding of vulnerability risk assessment and CVSS scoring.
• Experience working with workstation or endpoint environments such as laptops, desktops, VDI, and thin-client platforms.
• Ability to monitor remediation activity using dashboards, trackers, or similar reporting tools.
• Strong coordination, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to produce clear operational metrics and status reporting.
• Experience with Brinqa and Smartsheets is beneficial.