[Hiring] Cybersecurity Vulnerability Management Team Lead @Cherokee Federal

Role Description

Cherokee Federal Systems is seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Vulnerability Management Team Lead to support the NSF Cybersecurity Program. This highly visible role will help transform vulnerability management from a traditional scan-and-report function into a proactive, threat-informed Exposure Management capability.

The Team Lead will serve as the technical authority for vulnerability management. They will lead analysts, work closely with Security Operations, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, Compliance, and Development teams, and introduce detection, validation, and prioritization capabilities that measurably reduce cyber risk.

This role calls for a leader who evaluates emerging technologies and challenges traditional approaches—not someone whose experience is limited to running scans, distributing reports, or supporting annual compliance activities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of cybersecurity experience.
• 4+ years of direct vulnerability management experience in a federal or large enterprise environment.
• 3+ years leading vulnerability analysts, remediation programs, or enterprise vulnerability management initiatives.
• Deep hands-on expertise with Tenable.sc, Tenable.io, and Nessus.
• Experience implementing or significantly improving a Vulnerability Management or Exposure Management capability.
• Experience with ServiceNow Vulnerability Response and CMDB integrations.
• Experience using CISA KEV, EPSS, threat intelligence, asset criticality, and attack path analysis to prioritize vulnerabilities.
• Experience supporting AWS, Azure, or hybrid cloud environments.
• Experience working with Security Operations and Incident Response teams to identify and rapidly remediate actively exploited vulnerabilities.
• Experience briefing technical teams, executives, and federal stakeholders.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer; may occasionally require standing or moving about the office for extended periods.
• Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal.

Requirements

• Lead and mature NSF’s vulnerability management capability across enterprise, cloud, containerized, application, and hybrid environments.
• Provide technical leadership to vulnerability analysts and foster accountability, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain a vulnerability management roadmap aligned with evolving threats and organizational priorities.
• Apply CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), EPSS, threat intelligence, asset criticality, internet-facing asset identification, attack path analysis, and MITRE ATT&CK mapping to prioritize exposures.
• Evaluate emerging technologies that improve vulnerability validation, attack surface visibility, and exposure management.
• Advance capabilities in exposure reduction, detection engineering, continuous validation, cloud-native security, and automation.
• Own discovery, validation, prioritization, remediation coordination, exception handling, verification, and executive reporting.
• Operate and optimize Tenable.sc, Tenable.io, and Nessus.
• Improve scan coverage, credential management, accuracy, and false-positive reduction.
• Integrate findings from AWS Inspector, Security Hub, GuardDuty, Wiz, Prisma Cloud, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
• Partner with Application Security and DevSecOps teams on AppScan, DAST, SAST, CI/CD integrations, and container image scanning.
• Mature ServiceNow Vulnerability Response through CMDB enrichment, automated ticket creation, SLA tracking, ownership assignment, and escalation workflows.
• Identify and develop automation opportunities using APIs, Python, PowerShell, and orchestration capabilities.
• Build executive dashboards covering mean time to remediate (MTTR), SLA adherence, vulnerability aging, exposure trends, scan coverage, and remediation effectiveness.
• Brief cybersecurity leadership on emerging risks, remediation progress, and program maturity.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Starting Salary Range: $165,000 – $170,000
• Up to a 6% 401(k) company match to help you build long-term financial security.
• Paid time off as part of our comprehensive benefits package.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus prescription drug coverage.
• Basic life and AD&D insurance, with supplemental life options.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Paid holidays.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options.
• Professional development, training, and certification support.
• Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, and identity theft protection.