The posting
GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation’s top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.
General Description
We are looking for a skilled Senior Exposure Management Engineer to support GuidePoint Security's Mid-Atlantic Exposure Management practice. The Senior Exposure Management Engineer will be required to demonstrate strong asset management, integration, and risk-based vulnerability management skills, lead by influence, and strong business/financial acumen to drive the use of progressive exposure management programs that will align the delivery of business objectives and priorities.
About the Mid-Atlantic Exposure Management Practice
The Mid-Atlantic Exposure Management Practice is responsible for helping clients see everything they own and fix what matters most. We build unified, real-time asset inventories and risk-based exposure programs — with the Axonius Asset Cloud at the center — that turn fragmented data from hundreds of security and IT tools into a single, trusted asset model and a prioritized, business-aware remediation backlog.
Our team of exposure management engineers, Axonius platform specialists, and automation developers focuses on cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM), risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM), and exposure prioritization. We partner with client security, IT, infrastructure, and cloud teams to eliminate blind spots, de-duplicate findings across tools, assign asset ownership, and drive measurable risk reduction.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Exposure Management Platform Operations
- Operate and maintain security platforms including vulnerability management, RBVM, CAASM, and CNAPP tools
- Monitor security findings and support prioritization and remediation workflows
- Assist in platform tuning, configuration optimization, and integration with client environments
- Support onboarding of new assets, applications, and cloud environments into security platforms
Exposure Management Operations
- Review exposure findings and assist with prioritization and remediation tracking
- Help manage remediation workflows with client engineering teams
- Generate operational dashboards and reporting for security leadership
- Assist in maintaining asset inventory coverage and scanning accuracy
Traditional Vulnerability Management
- Deploy, configure, and maintain vulnerability scanners (e.g., Tenable Nessus/Tenable.sc, Qualys VMDR, Rapid7 InsightVM) across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
- Design scan sites, asset groups, scan templates, and schedules that deliver complete coverage while minimizing operational impact on production systems.
- Configure and manage authenticated (credentialed) scanning, scan engines, and agent deployments; troubleshoot credential failures and coverage gaps.
- Execute and validate network, host, and web application vulnerability scans; verify findings and reduce false positives.
- Manage the full vulnerability lifecycle — discovery, validation, assignment, remediation, re-scan verification, and closure.
- Coordinate patch and configuration remediation with IT and system owners, and track risk acceptances, exceptions, and compensating controls.
- Perform configuration and compliance scanning against benchmarks such as CIS and DISA STIG.
- Maintain vulnerability management policies, SLAs, and standard operating procedures aligned to frameworks such as NIST, PCI DSS, and CIS Controls.
- Produce recurring vulnerability metrics and reports, including open/aging vulnerabilities, mean time to remediate, and scan coverage.
Risk-Based Vulnerability Management Configuration
- Configure risk-based vulnerability management (RBVM) so that vulnerabilities are prioritized by real-world risk — business impact, exposure, and exploitability — rather than by CVSS score alone.
- Ingest and consolidate vulnerability findings from multiple scanners (e.g., Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7) into RBVM platforms such as Axonius, Nucleus, Brinqa, Armor Code, Cogent, Zafran and configure de-duplication so a single vulnerability reported by different tools is represented once.
- Build and maintain asset criticality ratings and business-context tags so prioritization reflects the importance of each asset to the business.
- Configure enrichment of findings with threat intelligence and exploitability signals (e.g., known-exploited, active-in-the-wild) to surface the vulnerabilities attackers are most likely to use.
- Design saved queries and dynamic asset/vulnerability views that isolate high-risk, exposed, mission-critical findings and filter out low-risk noise and items already within SLA.
- Configure risk scoring, severity mapping, and prioritization logic that combine CVSS, exposure (internet-facing vs. isolated), exploit status, asset criticality, and existing mitigating controls.
- Build automation workflows and dashboards to automate remediation workflows — create and route tickets to the correct owner in ServiceNow/Jira, notify teams, and track SLA and patch-window adherence.
- Configure escalation (“fire alarm”) logic and SLA-based rules for critical and zero-day vulnerabilities that require faster-than-standard remediation.
- Build dashboards and reporting that show remediation progress, SLA compliance, risk reduction over time, and coverage — tailored for both operational teams and security leadership.
- Continuously tune prioritization models and reduce alert fatigue so client teams focus effort on the findings that actually reduce risk.
CNAPP & Cloud Security Support
- Assist with the operation and optimization of CNAPP platforms (e.g., Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Orca)
- Support cloud posture monitoring and exposure analysis
- Assist with investigation of cloud misconfigurations, identity exposures, and attack paths
- Work with senior engineers to onboard new cloud environments
Automation & Integrations
- Develop scripts and automation to improve security workflows
- Build integrations between security tools and ticketing systems
- Automate reporting, vulnerability triage, and remediation tracking
- Use APIs and automation frameworks to reduce manual operational effort
- Use the Axonius Query Language, REST API, and Enforcement Center to automate asset queries, enrichment, ticketing, and remediation actions.
Client Engagement
- Participate in regular operational cadence meetings with clients
- Provide updates on platform findings and remediation progress
- Assist senior engineers in troubleshooting security platform issues
- Contribute to documentation and operational playbooks
Required Experience:
- 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity engineering
- Exposure management or risk-based vulnerability management experience
- Experience building and maintaining unified asset inventories from disparate security and IT data sources.
- Experience configuring asset criticality, ownership, and business context to drive risk-based prioritization.
- Familiarity with vulnerability management, exposure management, or CNAPP platforms such as Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Wiz, Axonius, or similar tools
- Hands-on experience running enterprise vulnerability scanning programs, including authenticated scanning, scan scheduling, false-positive validation, and remediation tracking.
- Scripting experience (Python, PowerShell, or similar)
- Experience working with APIs or automating workflows
- Understanding of security fundamentals: vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, identity and access control, security monitoring
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with engineering teams
- Embraces emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter, solve problems, and drive better business outcomes.
Preferred Experience:
- Experience with CNAPP platforms such as: Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Orca, Lacework
- Experience with cloud platforms: AWS, Azure, GCP
- Familiarity with container security and Kubernetes
- Experience integrating security tools with ticketing platforms (Jira, ServiceNow)
- Direct engineering experience with RBVM integrations, correlation tuning, and the Enforcement Center.
- Experience with cyber asset management (CAASM), asset discovery, and network enumeration tooling.
- Experience in Linux environments and API-based data retrieval from security/infrastructure tools (EDR, IdP, NGFW, cloud providers).
- Experience using AI-assisted tools (LLMs, copilots, or agent frameworks) to accelerate scripting, analysis, and security operations workflows
Travel Requirements:
- Up to 10% travel
Physical Requirements:
- Sedentary work
- Substantial movement of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers for a minimum of 8 hours a day
- Required to have close visual acuity to view computer terminal and/or extensive reading for a minimum of 8 hours a day
Note: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role.
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Why GuidePoint?
GuidePoint Security is a rapidly growing, profitable, privately-held value added reseller that focuses exclusively on Information Security. Since its inception in 2011, GuidePoint has grown to over 1,300 employees, established strategic partnerships with leading security vendors, and serves as a trusted advisor to more than 6,200 customers.
Firmly-defined core values drive all aspects of the business, which have been paramount to the company’s success and establishment of an enjoyable workplace atmosphere. At GuidePoint, your colleagues are knowledgeable, skilled, and experienced and will seek to collaborate and provide mentorship and guidance at every opportunity.
This is a unique and rare opportunity to grow your career along with one of the fastest growing companies in the nation.
Some added perks….
- Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions)
- Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family). If you choose the High Deductible / HSA plan, GPS will contribute in 4 equal quarterly installments: ($850 per EE annually / $1750 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options)
- Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans
- 12 corporate holidays and a Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
- Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
- Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
- Pet Benefit Option
