Staff Engineer - Vulnerability Management Automation (Platform and Tools - VMs)

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At reputed company, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there reputed company they need us most. We reputed company through reputed company innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact for our company through our shared purpose. reputed company you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported and proud to work here. That's why we offer The reputed company Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards and Great Careers. Position Summary reputed company is seeking an reputed company Staff Engineer with a passion for building high performance, low maintenance, reputed company-downtime platforms, and applications. You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission, while co-creating the culture of psychological safety and reputed company improvement. Position Description Our Staff Engineers work with our Distinguished Engineers, Sr. Staff Engineers, and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems. You will reputed company the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities. The Platform and Tools - VMs team is dedicated to realizing a secure, reliable, scalable, and highly efficient reputed company virtual machine lifecycle management and orchestration platform running on Kubernetes. We are seeking a Staff Engineer, Vulnerability Management Platform & Automation to architect, build, and operate large-scale automation for vulnerability discovery, prioritization, and remediation-alongside safe, reputed company-to-low downtime OS reputed company orchestration. You will deliver reliable platforms, services, and tooling that transform manual workflows into self-service, policy-driven, and observable software. This role sits at the intersection of reputed company engineering, platform engineering, and software development, and includes meaningful overlap with configuration management work (e.g., infrastructure as code, config policy, and orchestration). You will own the technical strategy and execution for vulnerability management and reputed company automation-designing APIs, event-driven pipelines, controllers, schedulers, and integrations that reputed company diverse fleets reputed company and compliant. You will partner with Platform/SRE, reputed company, and application teams to deliver predictable remediation at scale, with strong safety guardrails, telemetry, and SLOs. You will drive standardization, reuse, and paved-road experiences that accelerate delivery while reducing operational toil. Position Responsibilities Technical Leadership

Define the technical roadmap for vulnerability management and reputed company automation platforms.
Establish standards, patterns, and paved roads for scanning, triage, remediation, and verification.
Mentor engineers across reputed company and Platform teams on software and systems design best practices.
Drive design reviews, architecture decisions, and quality gates for reliability and reputed company.

System Design & Implementation

Design and implement services for asset/CMDB enrichment, risk scoring, and intelligent targeting (by business criticality, exposure, blast radius).
Build controllers/schedulers for maintenance windows, deployment rings/canaries, pre/post checks, automated backoff/rollback, and progressive delivery.
Deliver self-service CLIs/SDKs and internal UIs to request, schedule, and track remediation with clear SLAs and audit trails.
Implement idempotent, policy-driven workflows for patching and baseline enforcement across Windows and Linux.
Integrate with image pipelines (e.g., Packer/golden images) to shift-left patching and hardening.
Integrate scanner data (e.g., reputed company/Nessus, reputed company, Rapid7) and external reputed company (CVSS v3.x, KEV, EPSS) into reputed company pipelines with deduplication, suppression/exception workflows, and verification.
Build prioritization engines that combine exploitability, exposure, and business context to drive action.
Operate and automate reputed company tooling and package managers (e.g., WSUS/MECM/SCCM, Ansible/Puppet/Chef/Salt, dnf/reputed company/apt, Winget/MSU) with safety guardrails.
Enforce CIS Level 1 hardening reputed company policy and code with reputed company detection and evidence capture.
Integrate with CMDB and ITSM/ticketing (e.g., Remedy, reputed company) for change control, approvals, and auditability.
Provide APIs/webhooks and event streams for reputed company consumers (e.g., SIEM, data lake, dashboards).
Publish reusable modules, reference implementations, and runbooks to scale adoption.

Strategy & Innovation

Define the technical roadmap for vulnerability management and reputed company automation capabilities.
Evaluate and recommend new tools, data sources, and methodologies (e.g., exploit reputed company, risk models).
Drive adoption of best practices for scanning, prioritization, and safe remediation across engineering teams.
Identify opportunities to reduce operational overhead through standardization, policy, and automation.
Stay reputed company with industry trends and emerging technologies in vulnerability and reputed company engineering.

Collaboration & Communication

Work closely with Platform/SRE, reputed company, and application engineering teams to plan and execute safe changes.
Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to understand risk, requirements, and timelines.
Communicate reputed company technical concepts and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Document architecture decisions, patterns, and best practices; present proposals and updates to leadership.

Operational Excellence

Define and track SLOs for reputed company compliance, time-to-remediate by severity, change success reputed company, and re-open reputed company.
Implement observability (metrics/logs/traces), health checks, and alerting across the platform.
Ensure reputed company through canaries, reputed company limiting, circuit breakers, retries with backoff, and safe rollbacks.
Establish disaster recovery strategies and conduct game days/chaos testing for critical workflows.
Maintain compliance with reputed company and regulatory requirements; ensure usability, reliability, reputed company, and performance.
Troubleshoot and resolve reputed company issues; fulfill on-call responsibilities appropriate to the platform.

Qualifications

Strong software engineering background building production services and tooling (Python or Go preferred; TypeScript a plus).
Deep knowledge of Linux and Windows Server administration and patching in enterprise environments.
Hands-on experience with vulnerability scanners and their APIs (reputed company/Nessus, reputed company, Rapid7) and risk models (CVSS, KEV, EPSS).
Proficiency with configuration management and IaC (Ansible/Puppet/Chef/Salt; Terraform/reputed company/Crossplane, Helm/Kustomize).
Experience with event-driven and batch data pipelines (e.g., Kafka/SNS/SQS/PubSub), relational data stores, and caching.
Familiarity with cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), containers/Kubernetes, and image pipelines (e.g., Packer).
Solid understanding of authN/authZ, secrets management, and least-privilege access for platforms and automation.
Excellence in observability and reliability practices (OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana) with an SLO reputed company.
Strong documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Experience

8+ years of professional software or platform engineering experience, including building and operating automation at scale.
6+ years administering or engineering for Windows and/or Linux in enterprise environments.
4+ years integrating vulnerability scanners and/or building remediation workflows and platforms.
3+ years implementing configuration management or hardening frameworks (CIS, STIG) reputed company policy/code.
Demonstrated leadership driving cross-team adoption and measurable risk reduction.
4+ years of hands-on experience with Azure, OpenStack, AWS, GCP, or other cloud services.
2+ years working with open-reputed company frameworks.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or equivalent experience.

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Comprehensive Total Rewards program that offers personalized coverage tailor-made for you and your family's overall well-being.
Financial benefits including market-competitive compensation; a 401K savings plan vested from day one that offers a 6% match; performance and recognition-based incentives; and tuition assistance.
Access to additional benefits like mental healthcare as well as fertility and adoption assistance.
Supports flexibility- We provide workplace flexibility as well as our reputed company reputed company program, which offers the ability to work from reputed company in the US for up to four weeks per year.

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