Senior Vulnerability Manager in Belfast

Black Duck Software, Inc. helps organizations build secure, high-quality software, minimizing risks while maximizing speed and productivity. Black Duck, a recognized pioneer in application security, provides SAST, SCA, and DAST solutions that enable teams to quickly find and fix vulnerabilities and defects in proprietary code, open source components, and application behaviour.

The Senior Vulnerability Management Engineer owns the enterprise vulnerability management program across cloud, endpoint, and application surfaces, driving risk-based identification, prioritization, automated remediation, and verified closure in partnership with IT, Cloud, and Product teams. Operating with minimal guidance, this role combines hands-on technical engineering depth with program ownership—designing and implementing scanning architectures, automated patching workflows, and data pipelines alongside governing the policies, SLAs, and metrics that drive measurable risk reduction.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities:

• Govern the end-to-end vulnerability management lifecycle—intake, scanning, triage, risk scoring, remediation orchestration, verification, and reporting—in alignment with the company Vulnerability & Patch Management Security Standard.
• Apply CVSS, EPSS, and CISA KEV signals for risk-based vulnerability prioritization; codify triage logic into policy, SOPs, and dashboards.
• Enforce remediation SLAs; manage risk acceptances and time-bound exceptions; report exception aging trends to leadership.
• Drive complete and accurate asset coverage across servers, endpoints, containers, cloud services, and applications; partner with CMDB and asset owners to close inventory gaps.
• Design, administer, and optimize enterprise vulnerability scanners for infrastructure, cloud, container, and application layers; integrate scan results into ITSM workflows for timely remediation.
• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise automated patching capabilities across server, endpoint, and cloud workloads; integrate with change management and ITSM processes; validate patch success rates and drive MTTR reduction aligned to NIST SP 800-40r4.
• Collaborate with Threat Intelligence and Incident Response to dynamically adjust priority queues based on active exploitation, KEV entries, and zero-day disclosures.
• Partner with IT/Cloud Ops and Product/SWE teams to integrate patch and mitigation planning into CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code pipelines; champion automated remediation over manual processes.
• Maintain executive-ready metrics covering exposure, SLA adherence, backlog, exception aging, asset coverage, and patch automation coverage; deliver regular status and risk narratives to Directors and Vice Presidents.
• Tune risk models, scanning frequency, authenticated coverage, change windows, and patch validation methods to continuously reduce exposure and MTTR; lead automation initiatives that eliminate manual toil across the vulnerability lifecycle.
• Serve as a technical resource and mentor for less experienced team members; lead cross-team workstreams and champion engineering best practices and program rigor consistent with senior IC leadership.
• Maintain program evidence—findings, decisions, exceptions, verifications, and patch records—in audit-ready condition to support internal and external compliance reviews.
• Proactively identify, assess, and remediate configuration weaknesses in enterprise SaaS applications and cloud platforms; enforce compliance with security baselines through automated and manual review.

Required Education/Experience & Skills:

• 5–7+ years in vulnerability management or closely related cybersecurity/IT engineering roles, operating independently and leading others to solve complex, cross-domain problems.
• Proven hands-on experience with enterprise vulnerability scanning technologies (infrastructure, cloud, container, application), authenticated scanning, and ITSM/CMDB integrations.
• Hands-on design and operation of enterprise automated patching.

Black Duck is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or military service status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Black Duck complies with all applicable laws prohibiting employment discrimination in every jurisdiction where it operates and provides reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.