Cybersecurity Engineer II: Vulnerability & Risk Specialist

1872 Consulting; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Onsite in Austin

Job summary

1872 Consulting in Austin, TX is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer II with a primary focus on Vulnerability Management. You will join a Security Governance team, working across risk assessments, security controls, and broader cybersecurity initiatives to protect systems.

The role requires strong hands‑on experience with vulnerability management, familiarity with Windows/Azure, some Linux, and the ability to automate tasks with PowerShell.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of cybersecurity engineering or vulnerability management experience.
• Hands-on experience with vulnerability assessment and management.
• Experience with enterprise vulnerability tools such as Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7 or Defender Vulnerability Management.
• Experience performing security risk assessments and working with security frameworks.
• Strong PowerShell scripting experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mature vulnerability management and security assessment programs.
• Identify, assess, prioritize, and track vulnerabilities through remediation.
• Develop vulnerability management metrics, procedures, and supporting documentation.
• Monitor emerging threats and coordinate remediation activities.
• Perform security risk assessments for new technologies, IT projects, and third‑party vendors.
• Respond to client and partner security assessments, questionnaires, and audits.
• Apply security frameworks such as NIST, ISO 27001, and SOC 2.
• Develop and use PowerShell scripts to automate security and operational tasks.
• Collaborate with Security Architecture and other teams to implement security controls.
• Provide information security expertise to technical teams and leadership.
• Help develop and maintain security policies and guidelines.
• Assist with long‑term information security strategy and issue management.
• Mentor junior cybersecurity engineers.
• Contribute to IAM, endpoint security, authentication, firewalls, IDS/IPS, encryption, and log analysis initiatives.

Skills

PowerShell scripting

Vulnerability management

Security risk assessments

Hybrid-cloud environments

Azure

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related

CISSP

CEH

OSCP

Tools

Tenable

Qualys

Rapid7

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Job description

1872 Consulting in Austin, TX is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer II with a primary focus on Vulnerability Management. You will join a Security Governance team, working across risk assessments, security controls, and broader cybersecurity initiatives to protect systems.

The role requires strong hands‑on experience with vulnerability management, familiarity with Windows/Azure, some Linux, and the ability to automate tasks with PowerShell.