Security Engineer - Vulnerability & Exposure Management

  • Australia
  • Brisbane
  • Contract
  • INC Super

Join a major enterprise transformation program at the forefront of AI innovation, helping secure critical technology platforms through advanced vulnerability and exposure management practices.

We’re seeking an experienced Security Engineer – Vulnerability & Exposure Management to take ownership of identifying, assessing and prioritising vulnerabilities across a complex technology landscape spanning cloud, infrastructure, endpoints and applications.

This is an opportunity to work within a highly skilled security team, driving risk-based remediation and helping shape modern, intelligence-led vulnerability management capabilities.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Identify, assess and prioritise vulnerabilities across enterprise environments
  • Build and enhance exploitability-led vulnerability prioritisation frameworks leveraging EPSS, KEV and threat intelligence, moving beyond traditional CVSS scoring
  • Perform manual risk assessments where required and raise risk-ranked remediation actions to technology owners
  • Lead emergency response activities for critical, exploitable and internet-facing vulnerabilities
  • Coordinate vulnerability-related security incidents across technical and business stakeholders
  • Develop and enhance detection capabilities including threat hunting, IOC sweeps and exposure monitoring
  • Report on organisational exposure posture, remediation progress and SLA performance
  • Contribute to the ongoing maturity of vulnerability and exposure management processes

What You’ll Bring

Essential Experience

  • Strong experience with vulnerability management and exposure assessment platforms
  • Deep understanding of vulnerability prioritisation methodologies including EPSS, CVSS and CISA KEV
  • Proven experience assessing vulnerabilities across:
    • Cloud environments
    • Infrastructure platforms
    • Endpoints and operating systems
  • Strong understanding of attacker techniques and real-world exploitation paths
  • Ability to evaluate compensating controls and contextual risk when determining remediation priorities
  • Experience coordinating responses to critical security vulnerabilities and incidents
  • Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills

Highly Desirable

  • Application Security experience including:
    • SAST
    • DAST
    • Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
  • Python scripting and automation
  • Experience integrating security tooling with platforms such as ServiceNow and Jira
  • API-based workflow automation experience

Why Apply?

  • High-profile AI and cyber security program
  • Long-term contract with strong extension prospects
  • Opportunity to influence enterprise-wide security outcomes
  • Work with modern security tooling, threat intelligence and automation
  • Competitive daily rate of $850 – $935 per day inclusive of super

If you’re passionate about vulnerability management, threat-driven prioritisation and reducing organisational exposure at scale, apply now or reach out to ray.stewart@talentinternational.com

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