GovCIO is seeking a Vulnerability Management Team Lead to drive enterprise vulnerability strategy for federal IT environments. You will lead a small team of analysts, own scan and assessment operations, and partner with engineering and security stakeholders to prioritize and remediate findings. Responsibilities include developing risk-based metrics and dashboards, optimizing tooling and automation, ensuring compliance with federal standards, and supporting incident response. This role is ideal for a hands-on cybersecurity leader passionate about securing mission-critical government systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead the vulnerability management team and mentor analysts
- Own vulnerability scanning, assessment, and reporting processes
- Prioritize and track remediation with infrastructure and app teams
- Develop risk-based metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting
- Maintain vulnerability management policies, standards, and procedures
- Coordinate scan scheduling, exception handling, and change control
- Integrate vulnerability tools with SIEM/ITSM platforms
- Collaborate with federal stakeholders to meet compliance requirements
- Support incident response with vulnerability context and guidance
- Continuously improve tooling, workflows, and automation
Required Skills
- Vulnerability management
- Vulnerability scanning tools (Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7)
- Risk assessment and prioritization
- Patch and remediation coordination
- SIEM and ITSM integration
- Security standards and compliance (NIST, FISMA)
- Reporting and dashboarding
- Scripting/automation (Python, Power
- Shell)
- Incident response support
- Team leadership and mentoring