Lead Continuous Threat Exposure & Risk Reduction

Optimal Growth Technologies; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimal Growth Technologies in Midrand is seeking a Lead for Continuous Threat Exposure Management to oversee the establishment, operation and ongoing improvement of a unified exposure program across critical assets and services. You will drive discovery, prioritisation and remediation with executive reporting and measurable risk reduction.

The role requires deep expertise in vulnerability/exposure management, threat intelligence and security testing, with a track record of coordinating

Qualifications

• Relevant degree or equivalent experience in cybersecurity, technology, engineering or risk management.
• Significant experience leading vulnerability management, exposure management, cyber-risk reduction, security testing or a related enterprise security capability.
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure, cloud, identity, application, API, network and telecommunications security.
• Experience coordinating remediation across complex technology and business environments.
• Strong understanding of attack-path analysis, threat-informed prioritisation, security assurance and exception governance.
• Experience managing executive reporting, governance forums, senior stakeholders and service providers.
• Relevant certification such as CISSP, CISM, CRISC, CCSP, OSCP or GIAC is advantageous.
• Knowledge of NIST CSF 2.0, MITRE ATT&CK, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the exposure-management strategy, operating model, roadmap, governance framework, standards and performance measures.
• Establish continuous discovery and reconciliation of assets and exposures against authoritative inventories.
• Integrate and correlate findings from vulnerability management, attack-surface management, cloud, identity, application-security testing, penetration testing, threat intelligence, incidents, audits and control-assurance activities.
• Prioritise exposures using business criticality, customer impact, internet exposure, reachability, attack paths, privilege, known exploitation, threat intelligence, CVSS, CISA KEV and EPSS, rather than technical severity alone.
• Maintain a single governed exposure backlog with accountable owners, required actions, target dates, dependencies, exceptions, evidence and audit trails.
• Coordinate remediation across infrastructure, network, cloud, application, identity, supplier, business and market teams.
• Lead urgent escalation and coordinated response for actively exploited vulnerabilities, credible zero-days, exposed privileged paths and critical control failures.
• Establish independent, evidence-based validation of remediation and ensure exposures are reopened where validation fails or evidence is insufficient.

Skills

Cyber risk leadership

Vulnerability management

Exposure management

Security testing

Threat intelligence

Executive reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in cybersecurity or related field

Job description

Optimal Growth Technologies in Midrand is seeking a Lead for Continuous Threat Exposure Management to oversee the establishment, operation and ongoing improvement of a unified exposure program across critical assets and services. You will drive discovery, prioritisation and remediation with executive reporting and measurable risk reduction.

The role requires deep expertise in vulnerability/exposure management, threat intelligence and security testing, with a track record of coordinating