Consultant, Surface Area Management - Vulnerability Management

enterprise. With limited supervision, this job maintains vulnerability management systems' effectiveness and improves the organization's overall cybersecurity posture through close coordination with stakeholders such as IT, security engineering, and application owners.

Key Accountabilities

Essential Functions:

• Vulnerability Management Systems: Analyzes current security protocols and drafts strategies for designing, implementing, and operating vulnerability management systems.
• External Surface Area: Monitors the organization's external surface area from an outsider's perspective, ensuring that all potential entry points are secure and monitored.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing vulnerability data from tools such as Tenable, Qualys, or Rapid7.
• Prioritizing vulnerabilities based on risk context.
• Tracking remediation process and driving accountability with system owners through ticketing systems like Jira or ServiceNow.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across IT and security teams.
• Generate and present reports on vulnerability trends, SLA compliance, and risk posture.
• Support vulnerability scanning operations and troubleshoot scan coverage issues.
• Collaborate with other cyber security teams like Threat Intelligence to validate and enrich findings.
• Assist in patch validation and change coordination for remediation activities.
• Contribute to the tuning of scanning tools and development of custom dashboards.
• Stay informed on emerging threats, CVEs, zero-days, and best practices in vulnerability management.
• Solid understanding of CVSS, MITRE ATT&CK, and modern threat landscapes.
• Familiarity with remediation strategies on Windows, Linux, networking equipment, and cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP, and/or OCI) - focused specialty in cloud services is a plus.

Qualifications

• Minimum requirement of 3 years of relevant work experience.

• Excellent Communication skills

Compensation Data

The expected salary for this position is $80,000 - $105,000. Compensation varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific location, certifications, education, and level of experience. The disclosed range estimate may be adjusted for any applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. This position is eligible for a discretionary incentive award. The incentive award amount is dependent upon company performance and your personal performance.
At Cargill we put people first. As part of your overall rewards, we offer a comprehensive benefit program including medical and/or other benefits dependent on the position offered and hours worked. Visit: https://https://www.cargill.com/page/my-health/mh-health-and-wellnessto learn more (subject to certain collective bargaining agreements for Union positions).
Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.