Director, Vulnerability Management

The Director of Vulnerability Management is the technical leader and owner of Cencora’s vulnerability management program. This role sets the strategy, architecture, and operating model for how the organization discovers, prioritizes, and drives remediation of vulnerabilities across cloud, on‑premise, endpoint, application, container, and third‑party hosted environments. It is a hands‑on technical leadership position that designs vulnerability scanning, reviews detection logic, manages scan data, and defends remediation decisions across engineering teams and executive stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategy and continual development of the end‑to‑end vulnerability management program, including roadmap, operating model, policy, standards, and success metrics.
• Define and maintain risk‑based remediation SLAs by asset criticality, exposure, and severity.
• Mature beyond reactive scanning towards continuous, risk‑based exposure management, including attack‑surface management and validation of remediation effectiveness.
• Establish governance forums to review exposure trends, aging findings, systemic root causes, and escalations.
• Oversee comprehensive and accurate asset coverage by integrating scanning with CMDB, cloud inventories, and other asset‑discovery sources to reduce unscanned and unknown assets.
• Lead refinement of prioritization models to combine CVSS scoring with threat intelligence, exploitability signals, asset criticality, and compensating controls.
• Partner with penetration testing, red‑team, threat‑intelligence, and countermeasures teams to correlate findings and validate control effectiveness.
• Drive measurable reduction in mean time to remediate and aging critical exposures, working with IT operations, infrastructure, application, and cloud engineering teams.
• Lead technical response for zero‑day and emerging critical vulnerabilities, including rapid impact assessments, containment guidance, and executive communication.
• Identify and address systemic root causes such as patch‑tooling gaps, unsupported software, base‑image drift, and legacy platform debt.
• Define and report KPIs and KRIs to executive leadership, translating technical exposure into business and financial risk.
• Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain a team of vulnerability‑management analysts, building technical depth and clear career paths.
• Set technical standards, review the team’s work product, and cultivate a culture of data quality and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, with at least 5 years in vulnerability management, security engineering, offensive security, or infrastructure security.
• Experience leading technical teams with demonstrated success building or substantially maturing a vulnerability or exposure management program at enterprise scale.
• Hands‑on expertise with enterprise vulnerability management tools (e.g., Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Wiz, etc.).
• Strong working knowledge of operating system internals, networking, patch and configuration management, and enterprise identity across Windows, Linux, and macOS.
• Demonstrated experience securing public cloud environments and container technologies, including cloud‑native vulnerability and posture management.
• Fluency in vulnerability scoring and prioritization frameworks (CVSS, EPSS, CISA KEV, SSVC).
• Experience with application and software supply‑chain security concepts, including SAST, DAST, SCA, and SBOM.
• Familiarity with relevant security and risk frameworks (NIST CSF, ISO 27001, MITRE ATT&CK, etc.).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with proven ability to influence engineering teams without direct authority and to brief executive audiences credibly.
• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information technology, computer science, information systems, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience (required).
• Master’s degree in cybersecurity, information technology, computer science, information systems, business administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience (preferred).
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, information security, security operations, IT risk, or a related field (required).
• 5+ years of experience in a managerial capacity (required).
• Certification in cybersecurity, information security, or a related field (required); examples include CISSP, CISM, or equivalent role‑relevant certification.
• Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) (preferred).
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) (preferred).

Preferred Certifications

• GIAC GEVA – Enterprise Vulnerability Assessor
• GIAC GPEN – Penetration Tester
• CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional
• CISM – Certified Information Security Manager

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Wellness resources that address physical, emotional, financial, and social health.