Threat & Vulnerability Management Security Engineer II

Reduce enterprise technology risk by owning a Vulnerability Management Program that goes beyond scanning. In this onsite role in Cleveland, OH, you will continuously identify, assess, prioritize, remediate, and manage vulnerabilities across IT environments, while using threat intelligence and risk-based decision making to focus on what matters most.

What you’ll do

• Own and continuously evolve the enterprise Vulnerability Management Program across the IT environment.
• Manage the end-to-end vulnerability lifecycle, including discovery, validation, risk prioritization, remediation tracking, exception management, verification, and reporting.
• Analyze threat actors, campaigns, industry trends, and emerging cyber risks to provide strategic threat intelligence that informs vulnerability prioritization and broader security and business decisions.
• Operate and optimize vulnerability assessment technologies to maintain comprehensive asset coverage, accurate findings, and actionable risk visibility.
• Correlate and prioritize findings across vulnerability management platforms, attack surface management solutions, and threat intelligence sources.
• Apply risk-based prioritization using CVSS, CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), exploitability, asset criticality, exposure, and business impact.
• Partner with asset management and technology teams to improve asset inventory accuracy, security coverage, ownership attribution, and enterprise risk visibility.
• Design, develop, and maintain security automation capabilities that streamline vulnerability management and related security operations while maintaining appropriate governance and oversight.
• Build and enhance integrations, workflows, and tooling across security platforms to automate repetitive tasks and enable scalable, end-to-end security operations.
• Coordinate remediation efforts across infrastructure, application, cloud, network, and other technical teams to align with established service-level objectives and risk severity.
• Lead coordinated response activities for critical vulnerabilities, zero-day threats, and actively exploited CVEs, including rapid assessment, prioritization, remediation, and risk communication.
• Manage vulnerability exceptions, compensating controls, risk acceptance processes, and periodic exception reviews to keep risks documented and governed.
• Develop and maintain vulnerability management policies, standards, procedures, runbooks, and reporting frameworks.
• Develop executive and operational metrics for risk reduction, remediation performance, vulnerability trends, asset coverage, SLA adherence, exception exposure, and mean time to remediate (MTTR).
• Support audits, compliance assessments, and enterprise risk management through accurate documentation, reporting, and evidence collection.
• Monitor emerging vulnerabilities, exploitation trends, threat intelligence, and industry best practices to keep program effectiveness and prioritization current.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• 3+ years managing enterprise vulnerability management programs across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Hands-on experience with vulnerability management platforms such as Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, and Microsoft Defender VM, plus vulnerability assessment, validation, prioritization, and remediation practices.
• Strong understanding of vulnerability and threat intelligence frameworks, including CVE, CVSS, CISA KEV, exploit intelligence, attack surface management, and risk-based decision making.
• Experience securing modern technology environments including Azure, AWS, and GCP, cloud-native workloads, and containerized applications. Relevant certifications are preferred, such as CISSP, CySA+, GCVA, GSEC, GCSA, GCTI, or OSCP.

Tools and technologies

• Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Microsoft Defender VM
• CVE, CVSS, CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)
• Attack surface management
• Azure, AWS, GCP, containerized applications
• CISSP, CySA+, GCVA, GSEC, GCSA, GCTI, OSCP

Benefits

• Medical & Dental Plans
• Life Insurance, including eligible spouses & children
• Health Care Flexible Spending
• Dependent Care
• 401k Savings Plans
• Paid Time Off

How AmTrust supports your growth

AmTrust Financial Services offers a competitive compensation package and excellent career advancement opportunities. The company is focused on building a diverse and inclusive culture where employees’ thoughts and ideas are appreciated and respected. Diversity is treated as a business imperative to attract, retain, and develop the best talent.