Vice President Qualys Vulnerability Management Jobs in Bothell, WA

Job Description:
Location: This position requires the candidate to work onsite 2-3 days a week in Seattle, WA. Potential opening for remote candidates in PST.
Job Description:
This position supports advancing the enterprise vulnerability management program across four functional pillars: Detect, Prioritize, Report, Remediate.
Detect:
- Maintain and expand scan and sensor coverage across endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, containers, network devices, and SaaS
- Close asset visibility gaps, including shadow IT, unmanaged devices, and assets provisioned outside IT
- Tune authenticated scanning, credential health, agent health, and scan cadence to reduce false negatives
- Reconcile vulnerability data across multiple sources into a single authoritative inventory
Prioritize:
- Build and operate risk-based prioritization that blends CVSS severity, EPSS likelihood, CISA KEV exploitation status, and SSVC decision logic
- Enrich findings with business context: asset criticality, data classification, internet exposure, compensating controls, application owner, and business unit
- Replace severity-only queues with defensible, tiered remediation SLAs
- Operate the exception and risk acceptance workflow, including expiration and re-review
Report:
- Design and publish program metrics: coverage, mean time to remediate by tier, backlog aging, SLA compliance, and burndown
- Deliver executive and operational dashboards, including Power BI reporting fed by automated pipelines
- Produce audit and assurance evidence on request
- Translate technical findings into business risk language for non-technical stakeholders
Remediate:
- Drive remediation campaigns in partnership with IT operations, endpoint, cloud, and application teams
- Automate ticket creation, routing, and closure into the ITSM platform
- Perform closed-loop verification that remediation actually reduced exposure
- Support emergency response for actively exploited vulnerabilities
Platform and program:
- Direct, hands-on experience implementing or migrating to a new enterprise vulnerability management platform, including requirements definition, proof of concept, integration, data migration, and rollout
- Direct experience driving continuous improvement to an established VM program, including maturity assessment, process redesign, and runbook development
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years hands-on vulnerability management or security engineering
- Direct implementation experience with at least one enterprise VM platform (Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, or Tanium)
- Demonstrated experience building prioritization models that incorporate business context, not severity alone
- Scripting and automation to scale program operations: Python and PowerShell, plus REST API integration
- Working fluency with KQL or an equivalent query language for security data
- Experience integrating VM data with CMDB, ITSM, and BI platforms
- Cloud vulnerability management experience across Azure and at least one other provider
- Ability to work independently and produce written deliverables without heavy oversight
Preferred
- Experience with Tanium and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint as data sources
- Container and image scanning experience
- Familiarity with NVD, EPSS, KEV, and ExploitDB data feeds and their API consumption patterns
- Exposure to CTEM or exposure management program models
- Certifications: CISSP, GIAC (GEVA, GCIA), AZ-500
Pay Range: $75.00 - $85.00 per hour, depending upon experience.
Health & Medical Benefits, 401K, Employee Assistance Program, and Sick Time applicable by state.
SLA
Describe hiring preference (C/CTH/FTE)
12 month contract
Bill rate or FTE Salary range and target:
Target rate: We need to make our best offer, so let's discuss rates, keeping in mind they can go a bit higher than for our other clients.
Potential target: $140 to $155/hr
Work Authorization Requirements:
No C2C without approval
1099 ok
Budget Confirmed?
Yes
Why is the position open?
New role
How long has the position been open?
Just opened
Is there HR/vendor competition? Exclusive?
Competition - this is an RFP process
Interview Process:

• 2 interviews - likely team fit/leadership + technical

Work location :

• Local and onsite 2-3 days a week is ideal and will be prioritized over remote
• Open to remote but must be in PST. This is not preferred.

Team size
Enterprise wide
Project overview:
Advance the enterprise vulnerability management program across four functional pillars: Detect, Prioritize, Report, Remediate.
Top 5:

5+ years hands-on vulnerability management or security engineering

Direct implementation experience with at least one enterprise VM platform (Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, or Tanium)

Demonstrated experience building prioritization models that incorporate business context, not severity alone

Scripting and automation to scale program operations: Python and PowerShell, plus REST API integration

Working fluency with KQL or an equivalent query language for security data

Experience integrating VM data with CMDB, ITSM, and BI platforms

Cloud vulnerability management experience across Azure and at least one other provider

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Tanium and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint as data sources
• Container and image scanning experience
• Familiarity with NVD, EPSS, KEV, and ExploitDB data feeds and their API consumption patterns
• Exposure to CTEM or exposure management program models
• Certifications: CISSP, GIAC (GEVA, GCIA), AZ-500

Job Description:
Location: This position requires the candidate to work onsite 2-3 days a week in Seattle, WA. Potential opening for remote candidates in PST.
Job Description:
This position supports advancing the enterprise vulnerability management program across four functional pillars: Detect, Prioritize, Report, Remediate.
Detect:
- Maintain and expand scan and sensor coverage across endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, containers, network devices, and SaaS
- Close asset visibility gaps, including shadow IT, unmanaged devices, and assets provisioned outside IT
- Tune authenticated scanning, credential health, agent health, and scan cadence to reduce false negatives
- Reconcile vulnerability data across multiple sources into a single authoritative inventory
Prioritize:
- Build and operate risk-based prioritization that blends CVSS severity, EPSS likelihood, CISA KEV exploitation status, and SSVC decision logic
- Enrich findings with business context: asset criticality, data classification, internet exposure, compensating controls, application owner, and business unit
- Replace severity-only queues with defensible, tiered remediation SLAs
- Operate the exception and risk acceptance workflow, including expiration and re-review
Report:
- Design and publish program metrics: coverage, mean time to remediate by tier, backlog aging, SLA compliance, and burndown
- Deliver executive and operational dashboards, including Power BI reporting fed by automated pipelines
- Produce audit and assurance evidence on request
- Translate technical findings into business risk language for non-technical stakeholders
Remediate:
- Drive remediation campaigns in partnership with IT operations, endpoint, cloud, and application teams
- Automate ticket creation, routing, and closure into the ITSM platform
- Perform closed-loop verification that remediation actually reduced exposure
- Support emergency response for actively exploited vulnerabilities
Platform and program:
- Direct, hands-on experience implementing or migrating to a new enterprise vulnerability management platform, including requirements definition, proof of concept, integration, data migration, and rollout
- Direct experience driving continuous improvement to an established VM program, including maturity assessment, process redesign, and runbook development
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years hands-on vulnerability management or security engineering
- Direct implementation experience with at least one enterprise VM platform (Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, or Tanium)
- Demonstrated experience building prioritization models that incorporate business context, not severity alone
- Scripting and automation to scale program operations: Python and PowerShell, plus REST API integration
- Working fluency with KQL or an equivalent query language for security data
- Experience integrating VM data with CMDB, ITSM, and BI platforms
- Cloud vulnerability management experience across Azure and at least one other provider
- Ability to work independently and produce written deliverables without heavy oversight
Preferred
- Experience with Tanium and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint as data sources
- Container and image scanning experience
- Familiarity with NVD, EPSS, KEV, and ExploitDB data feeds and their API consumption patterns
- Exposure to CTEM or exposure management program models
- Certifications: CISSP, GIAC (GEVA, GCIA), AZ-500
Pay Range: $75.00 - $85.00 per hour, depending upon experience.
Health & Medical Benefits, 401K, Employee Assistance Program, and Sick Time applicable by state.