Opportunity brief
Avnet is hiring for the role of Vulnerability Management Engineer I!
Responsibilities of the Candidate:
- Validate vulnerability scan schedules and confirm scans are running as planned across assigned networks, subnets, and regions.
- Monitor scanner appliance health, scanner assignment, scan configuration, and scan failures, including offline scanners, authentication issues, access issues, and network connectivity problems.
- Raise, update, and follow up on incident or remediation tickets related to scanner failures, scan issues, and vulnerability remediation activities.
- Support approved ad hoc rescans for eligible assets, validate hostname, IP address, vulnerability details, and confirm whether remediation has successfully resolved the finding.
- Monitor vulnerability dashboards and extract reports from tools such as ArmorCode and CrowdStrike for findings, statistics, SLA tracking, and evidence collection.
- Review exception requests, validate affected assets, justification, evidence, asset owner, risk owner, exception category, and approval status.
Requirements:
- Basic understanding of cybersecurity concepts, vulnerabilities, risk ratings, CVEs, remediation, and patching.
- Foundational knowledge of networking concepts such as IP addresses, subnets, ports, protocols, and network connectivity.
- Basic familiarity with Windows, Linux, network devices, databases, and cloud or virtualized environments.
- Good written communication skills for ticket updates, stakeholder follow-ups, and evidence documentation.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science/information technology/Cybersecurity/Electronics or a related field.