Vulnerability Risk Engineer II (IT/OT & Manufacturing)

Kansas Ag Connection; Kansas City (KS); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kansas Ag Connection is seeking a cybersecurity professional to lead the Vulnerability Threat Management program across IT and OT environments, including manufacturing systems. You will own remediation prioritization, metric reporting, and cross-functional collaboration to reduce cyber risk.

The role emphasizes risk-based decision making, vulnerability data analysis, and tooling optimization to improve visibility and resilience across endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and OT assets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in IT or related field.
• 3+ years of vulnerability management experience.
• Experience aligning vulnerability efforts with security frameworks such as NIST-800-53.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day execution and improvement of the Vulnerability Threat Management (VTM) program.
• Identify, analyze, prioritize, and track vulnerabilities across endpoints, servers, network devices, cloud workloads, Webservers and OT/manufacturing assets.
• Analyze vulnerability data in the context of exploitability, asset criticality, business impact, and OT safety and availability constraints.
• Coordinate remediation efforts with IT infrastructure, application owners, plant engineers, and operations teams, ensuring clear ownership and tracking.
• Apply risk-based vulnerability management in environments with uptime, safety, regulatory, or vendor constraints.
• Develop and maintain vulnerability dashboards, KPIs, and executive-level metrics to measure risk reduction and remediation effectiveness.

Skills

Vulnerability lifecycle management

Risk-based prioritization

CVE/CVSS analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Endpoint hardening

English communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field

Tools

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Job description

Kansas Ag Connection is seeking a cybersecurity professional to lead the Vulnerability Threat Management program across IT and OT environments, including manufacturing systems. You will own remediation prioritization, metric reporting, and cross-functional collaboration to reduce cyber risk.

The role emphasizes risk-based decision making, vulnerability data analysis, and tooling optimization to improve visibility and resilience across endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and OT assets.