Vulnerability Assessment Engineer

Pacific Life

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On-site
Location
Newport Beach, CA
Employment
Full-time
Posted
8 days ago
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About Pacific Life

Pacific Life is a life insurance company offering a wide range of life insurance, annuity, and investment products and services to individuals, businesses, and pension plans. Industry: Life Insurance & Annuities

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TL;DR · Vulnerability Assessment Engineer

The Vulnerability Assessment Engineer joins the Cyber Operations Team within the Enterprise Functions division to support the vulnerability management service. This role involves performing daily enterprise vulnerability assessment activities across on-premises, cloud, endpoint, network, and application environments. Key responsibilities include administering and optimizing scanning platforms, asset discovery capabilities, and risk-based vulnerability management solutions. The engineer will oversee scan scheduling, credential management, exception handling, and validation processes while authoring procedures and work instructions. Required skills include experience with vulnerability scanners, cloud security, attack-surface monitoring, and integrating ticketing systems like ServiceNow or Jira. Candidates should understand vulnerability exploitation attacks and risk assessment. The role focuses on improving identification effectiveness through continual tuning of assessment methodologies and managing vulnerabilities within complex cloud and infrastructure environments.

What you'll do

  • Perform daily vulnerability assessment activities across on-premises, cloud, endpoint, network, and application environments.
  • Administer and optimize vulnerability management technologies, including scanning platforms and asset discovery tools.
  • Oversee scan scheduling, credential management, exception handling, and validation processes.
  • Monitor and improve vulnerability identification effectiveness through continual tuning of assessment methodologies.
  • Author, update, and maintain standard operating procedures and work instructions.
  • Coordinate effective responses by assessing risks and understanding vulnerability exploitation attacks.
  • Provide internal customer support for vulnerability management services and operational tasks.

What we're looking for

  • 2+ years of experience within information security including vulnerability management.
  • Experience with vulnerability scanners, cloud security, attack-surface monitoring, and ticketing systems like ServiceNow or Jira.
  • Understanding of vulnerability exploitation attacks and the ability to assess risk and coordinate responses.
  • Ability to perform daily vulnerability assessment activities across on-premises, cloud, endpoint, network, and application environments.
  • Ability to administer and optimize scanning platforms, asset discovery, and risk-based vulnerability management solutions.
  • Relevant certifications such as Security+, PenTest+, CEH, GWAPT, GPEN or equivalent experience (preferred).
  • Strong understanding of vulnerability assessment and prioritization tools (preferred).
  • Familiarity with assessing vulnerabilities within cloud environments (preferred).

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