Senior Tanium & Vulnerability Security Engineer

AeroVironment, Inc.; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 91,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

AeroVironment, Inc. is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to support Vulnerability Management and Endpoint Security programs with a focus on Tanium administration and security optimization.

The role combines hands-on security engineering with vulnerability identification, remediation, and automation across enterprise endpoints. You will collaborate with Cybersecurity Operations, IT Infrastructure, application owners, and business stakeholders to translate vulnerability data into actionable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in cybersecurity or related field.
• 3+ years of cybersecurity, endpoint engineering, vulnerability management, 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.

Responsibilities

• Vulnerability Management: support the enterprise program across workstations, servers, cloud workloads, and other infrastructure.
• Identify, analyze, validate, prioritize, and track vulnerabilities across the enterprise.
• Use vulnerability intelligence, asset criticality, exploitability, business impact, and threat intelligence to prioritize remediation.
• Monitor newly disclosed vulnerabilities and advisories; coordinate remediation with IT and owners.
• Develop vulnerability dashboards, metrics, KPIs, and executive reporting.

Skills

Tanium

Vulnerability management

Endpoint security

PowerShell / scripting

Incident response

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Windows

Patch management tools

Cloud platforms

Job description

AeroVironment, Inc. is seeking a Cybersecurity Engineer to support Vulnerability Management and Endpoint Security programs with a focus on Tanium administration and security optimization.

The role combines hands-on security engineering with vulnerability identification, remediation, and automation across enterprise endpoints. You will collaborate with Cybersecurity Operations, IT Infrastructure, application owners, and business stakeholders to translate vulnerability data into actionable