When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

The mission of Readiness and Proactive Security (RPS) is to ensure Verizon is resilient to attacks against our people, process, and technology. RPS focuses on testing, measuring, and improving Verizon’s capabilities to prevent, detect, and respond to a cyber attack. RPS proactively scans, identifies, validates, exploits, and ensures remediation of vulnerabilities in our technology products through Exposure and Vulnerability Management (EVM).The EVM team is here to strengthen and protect Verizon's information security assets and information.

What we’re looking for...

Verizon is looking for an innovative and self-driven individual with experience in Exposure and Vulnerability Management programs. In this role, you will be responsible for managing the Vulnerability Management platform, perform vulnerability assessment, and provide technical support in maintaining the components of the platform. You will closely work with Global functional organizations, support them with the vulnerability findings and coordinate on the remediation efforts. In addition, you will be working with internal stakeholders to continuously evaluate and improve the effectiveness of the vulnerability identification platform.

Responsibilities:

• Managing the vulnerability assessment platform (Tenable)

• Automating repetitive manual tasks and other ideas from team members

• Maintaining the infrastructure of the platform

• Managing continuous evaluation and improvement of vulnerability identification program

• Supporting functional organizations with vulnerability assessment

• Coordinating with internal and vendor teams to support internal customers technical issues

• Driving enterprise visibility of vulnerabilities across all Verizon assets; ensures consistent management and reporting

• Evaluating reported "bugs"/vulnerabilities to ensure appropriate triage; this includes facilitating work efforts related to vulnerability scanning deployment and operations.

• Driving awareness and escalations where applicable

• Supporting in creating reports, dashboards, metrics for EVM operations

You’ll need to have:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience. 

• Four or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience in Vulnerability Management program

• Knowledge of one or more scripting languages

• Working knowledge of Data Formats like YAML/XML/JSON

• Knowledge of security fundamentals and common vulnerabilities

• Experience in cyber-security and/or Security Operations

Even Better if you have:

• Knowledge with common security frameworks (SOX, NIST, FISMA, etc.)

• Comprehensive understanding of vulnerability management and information technologies associated security models - including server/OS, database, hardware, network devices, user compute, application/SDLC, cloud, etc

• Multi-departmental project/program management experience.

• Experience working with cyber security and vulnerability management at a large company.

• Strong analytical problem solving skills, detail oriented and organized approach, excellent communication skills, and strong interpersonal skills

• Ability to translate client and program needs into achievable requirements

• Experience working with a non-IT business segment.

• Experience within the telecommunications industry

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you'll be working
 

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and assigned office days set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, gender, disability or any other legally protected characteristics.