Vulnerability Assessment (VA) Team Lead (CBP)

U.S. Customs and Border Protection runs continuous operations across more than 300 land, air, and sea ports of entry, plus Border Patrol stations and the Air and Marine Operations Center. Every system supporting that mission has weaknesses somewhere, and the job is not to pretend otherwise. It is to find them before someone else does, and to make sure the ones that matter actually get fixed instead of sitting on a list nobody prioritizes. You lead vulnerability assessment for this program. You will run the scanning, assessment, and prioritization work that finds weaknesses across the environment, and you own getting real remediation out of that work rather than a report that lands and goes nowhere. You will coordinate closely with the network, cloud, and security engineering teams who fix what you find, and hand confirmed exploitable findings to the threat hunt and incident response leads when they need that context. One thing is worth knowing before you apply. A vulnerability scan is the easy part. What makes this role hard is getting busy engineering teams to prioritize a fix for something that has not caused a problem yet, and doing that without becoming the person everyone tunes out.

Responsibilities

Lead vulnerability assessment for this program; Run scanning, assessment, and prioritization work that finds weaknesses across the environment; Own getting real remediation out of that work rather than a report that lands and goes nowhere; Coordinate closely with network, cloud, and security engineering teams who fix what you find; Hand confirmed exploitable findings to threat hunt and incident response leads when they need that context; Prioritize findings by real exploitability and impact to this environment; Ensure assessment coverage reaches the systems that matter most; Get real remediation, not just a report; Keep the risk picture current and honest; Build assessment practice that keeps pace with a changing environment

Requirements

Active Top Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility; ability to obtain and maintain a CBP Background Investigation (CBP BI) and EOD; U.S. Citizenship required; One of the following certifications: Active Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) or Active Certified Information Security System Professional (CISSP); Minimum of five (5) years' experience performing vulnerability assessments for an enterprise network, including endpoints, network devices, IOT devices, web applications, databases or wireless access points; Analyzing vulnerabilities and providing assessments and remediation instructions; knowledgeable to maintain a repository of VA application issues and report application issues to USG Government customers; Experience with applying Information Systems Security principles and methods; Experience with Application Security implementation; understanding of Firewall Management and Advanced Threat Protection; familiarity with Access Control, Authorization, Intrusion Prevention and Intrusion Detection; Familiar with FISMA compliance and Risk Management Framework; Bachelor's Degree in computer science, engineering, cybersecurity or STEM.

Nice to have

Active BI strongly preferred; Active CBP BI; Led vulnerability assessment or penetration testing work that produced findings engineering teams actually acted on; Prioritized findings by real exploitability rather than by scanner severity score alone; Worked in a federal or highly regulated environment; Gotten a team to fix something that had not caused a visible problem yet; Active CBP BI, fitness determination at another DHS component, or active DoD clearance; Certifications such as OSCP, GPEN, or equivalent; VAT Analyst certifications: GPEN, GWAPT, GSNA, GAWN, GWEB, GXPN, CEH, OSCP, OSEE, OSCE, OSWP; Leadership experience of a technical team

Benefits

Signing bonus: $10,000 for candidates with an active CBP BI, payable after 90 days; Health Insurance; Life Insurance; Paid Time Off; Holiday Pay; short-term and long-term Disability; Retirement; Learning and Development opportunities; other optional benefit elections