Senior Tanium & Vulnerability Engineer

AeroVironment, Inc.; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 91,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401K with company matching

9/80 work schedule

Paid holiday shutdown

Job summary

AeroVironment, Inc. is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to administer and optimize Tanium, lead vulnerability management across workstations, servers, and cloud workloads, and work closely with Cybersecurity Operations, IT, and application owners to remediate exposures.

The candidate will prioritize risks, develop dashboards, and integrate Tanium with SIEM/XDR and other security platforms to drive measurable risk reduction across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of cybersecurity, endpoint engineering, vulnerability management, systems administration, or related technical experience.
• Hands-on experience administering or supporting Tanium in an enterprise environment.
• Experience with vulnerability management and remediation processes.
• Understanding of vulnerability scoring, CVSS, exploitability, and risk-based vulnerability prioritization.
• Experience with enterprise patch-management processes.
• Understanding of endpoint security technologies and architecture.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Vulnerability Management: Identify, analyze, prioritize, and track vulnerabilities across the enterprise.
• Coordinate with IT, infrastructure, application, cloud, and system owners to remediate identified vulnerabilities.
• Develop vulnerability dashboards, metrics, KPIs, and executive reporting.
• Tanium Administration & Engineering: Configure, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize Tanium modules and services.
• Develop Tanium sensors, dashboards, and reporting to map posture across endpoints.

Skills

Tanium Administration

Vulnerability Management

Endpoint Security

Troubleshooting

Stakeholder Communication

PowerShell / Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, IT, CS, Engineering or related field

Tools

Tanium

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Microsoft Intune

Linux

PowerShell

Python

REST APIs

SQL / data analytics

SIEM/XDR platforms

Job description

AeroVironment, Inc. is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to administer and optimize Tanium, lead vulnerability management across workstations, servers, and cloud workloads, and work closely with Cybersecurity Operations, IT, and application owners to remediate exposures.

The candidate will prioritize risks, develop dashboards, and integrate Tanium with SIEM/XDR and other security platforms to drive measurable risk reduction across the enterprise.