Senior Cyber Operator — Vulnerability Management Lead

Fortress Information Security; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 68,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote or Hybrid work options

Medical, dental, vision plans

Company paid life, short- and long‑ten

401(k) match

Flexible Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Tuition and certification reimburse

Employee Referral Programs

Company Sponsored Events

Job summary

Fortress Information Security is seeking a Senior Cyber Operator to own end-to-end vulnerability management execution and mentor junior operators. You will coordinate remediation with client teams and ensure audit‑defensible evidence while driving program improvements across platforms.

This role emphasizes collaboration with business units, asset owners, and program staff, plus using AI-assisted tools to enhance research, analysis, and documentation.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of professional cybersecurity experience.
• Proficient in applying cybersecurity frameworks and best practices.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to leverage AI tools and independently use and refine prompts to enhance the quality, efficiency, and insight of regular work processes.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end execution of the most complex work within an assigned area of the vulnerability management program.
• Act as primary liaison to business units—determining applicability, negotiating remediation timelines and dates, and building action plans and reports.
• Own remediation validation and closure: run credentialed scans, evaluate evidence against required state, and produce audit‑defensible evidence packages for regulatory review (NERC CIP, BCSI).
• Own escalated and critical‑vulnerability remediation through to closure where assigned: map assets to owners, drive ticketing and escalation cadence, validate against closure thresholds.
• Govern risk‑acceptance and exception cases, assess requests, and manage lifecycle through extension and evidence‑based closure.
• Maintain and improve data quality across vulnerability, asset, and inventory systems; evaluate scanner health.
• Provide guidance and mentoring to associate and intermediate operators.
• Serve as a point of contact for business-unit and client program staff on questions and support.
• Drive process-improvement and knowledge sharing to raise team consistency.
• Use approved AI-assisted tools to improve research, analysis, and documentation.

Skills

Cybersecurity frameworks

Excellent communication

MS Office proficiency

AI tools prompt engineering

Vulnerability scanning experience

Education

Associate’s degree

Bachelor's degree (preferred)

Tools

Vulnerability scanning tools

Job description

Fortress Information Security is seeking a Senior Cyber Operator to own end-to-end vulnerability management execution and mentor junior operators. You will coordinate remediation with client teams and ensure audit‑defensible evidence while driving program improvements across platforms.

This role emphasizes collaboration with business units, asset owners, and program staff, plus using AI-assisted tools to enhance research, analysis, and documentation.