Senior Systems Engineer – Vulnerability Assessment (Hybrid- San Diego, CA or Kirkland, WA)

Responsibilities

• Maintains awareness of and responds to vulnerabilities in systems and networks.
• Works with System Engineering and Security teams to ensure timely remediation of identified issues.
• Collaborates with stakeholders to identify and implement strategies to reduce vulnerabilities.
• Develops and deploys Puppet or Ansible playbooks to address vulnerabilities.
• Assesses and resolves vulnerabilities in container images across registries and Kubernetes environments.
• Coordinates vulnerability scanning and patching in containerized workloads.
• Writes and updates knowledge articles as necessary.
• Defines and enforces hardening policies to enhance security.
• Reviews and prepares for planned changes in the ServiceNow environment.
• Supports planning and execution of software code upgrades as required.

Requirements

• Comprehensive understanding and hands-on experience with VMware, Puppet, Ansible, imaging, Artifactory, Git.
• Experience with container platforms (Docker, Podman) and Kubernetes distributions, including familiarity with Helm or similar K8s deployment tools.
• Strong programming skills in Java and Python.
• Excellent coordination and troubleshooting abilities, especially in handling complex security incidents and escalations.
• Proficient in Linux administration.
• Extensive experience with vulnerability management tools and strong technical understanding of assessing and identifying weaknesses in cloud infrastructure services.
• Experience with container vulnerability scanning platforms and the ability to triage, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills, particularly with globally distributed teams.

Qualifications

• US Citizen or Green Card Holder

Benefits

Health benefits and 401K are offered.

Pay

$65/hr - $69.67/hr.