Manager Information Security - Cyber Threat Exposure

The Manager of Information Security-Cyber Threat Exposure Management plays a critical role in solving complex challenges and building the infrastructure that powers what's next for our customers and our world.

In this role, you won't just manage vulnerabilities-you'll shape how Lumen identifies, prioritizes, and reduces cyber risk across a rapidly evolving digital landscape. From strengthening asset visibility to advancing risk-based vulnerability management and governance, your work directly enables innovation by ensuring our foundation is secure, resilient, and ready to scale., This role matures vulnerability and asset management programs, improves data quality, advances risk-based remediation, and collaborates across security and technology teams to reduce enterprise exposure.

• Own the strategy, execution, and continuous maturity of the enterprise vulnerability management program, driving measurable reduction of cyber risk.
• Implement and refine risk-based prioritization using threat intelligence, exploitability, asset criticality, exposure, and business impact to focus remediation on the highest-risk vulnerabilities.
• Ensure comprehensive visibility across internal, cloud, and externally exposed assets through effective asset discovery, inventory governance, ownership assignment, and data quality management.
• Oversee vulnerability management and asset discovery platforms, supporting tool optimization, process automation, and consistent operational workflows.
• Drive remediation accountability by partnering with Security, IT, Cloud, Engineering, and business stakeholders to address critical vulnerabilities, visibility gaps, and risk exceptions.
• Define, monitor, and report key program metrics, including vulnerability backlog, mean time to remediate, SLA compliance, exception trends, asset coverage, and external exposure trends.
• Deliver clear executive-level reporting that translates technical findings into business risk, remediation priorities, and measurable program outcomes.
• Support audit, regulatory, and compliance requirements by maintaining evidence, reporting, and processes aligned to applicable security frameworks and control expectations.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team while fostering accountability, collaboration, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

• 5+ years of experience in information security, vulnerability management, security risk assessment, application security, system security, network security, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading, coaching, or managing technical personnel in a security, infrastructure, cloud, or technology operations environment.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Broad technical knowledge of current and emerging technologies used within enterprise infrastructure, cloud environments, applications, and security operations.
• Experience communicating technical security risk to technical and non-technical audiences, including management and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Applicable professional or technical certifications should be in place, or the candidate must be willing to pursue relevant certification., * Professional or technical certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GISEC, Security+, cloud security certifications, or related security credentials.
• Experience with modern vulnerability management, asset discovery, cyber asset attack surface management, cloud security posture management, or external attack surface management platforms.
• Demonstrated understanding of risk-based vulnerability prioritization, remediation governance, exception management, and vulnerability lifecycle management.
• Knowledge of information security frameworks, control standards, and regulatory obligations, including ISO 27001/27002, NIST, SOX, PCI, FISMA, HIPAA, NACHA, and SSAE-16.
• Experience supporting audit readiness, evidence collection, control validation, and security reporting requirements.
• Knowledge of project management practices and experience driving cross-functional initiatives through influence, accountability, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience working in large enterprise environments, including complex data center, network, cloud, and hybrid technology ecosystems.
• Strong ability to translate complex technical findings into clear executive-level communication, business risk context, and actionable recommendations.

This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors.

Location Based Pay Ranges

$105,786 - $141,047 in these states: AL AR AZ FL GA IA ID IN KS KY LA ME MO MS MT ND NE NM OH OK PA SC SD TN UT VT WI WV WY

$111,074 - $148,099 in these states: CO HI MI MN NC NH NV OR RI

$116,364 - $155,152 in these states: AK CA CT DC DE IL MA MD NJ NY TX VA WA

Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing. We're able to answer any additional questions you may have about our bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation) as you move through the selection process.

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Life at Lumen

Life at Lumen is human and connected, even in a fast moving, AI-focused organization. We set clear expectations and trust people to meet them. With real support and shared accountability, teams collaborate better, move faster, and deliver meaningful outcomes.

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Lumen is the trusted network for the AI-powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through our expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. We enable secure, high-performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads for enterprises, governments, and communities. At Lumen, you'll work on infrastructure customers rely on today and build for what's next, where performance, security, and resilience matter. This is a high accountability environment where bold ideas drive real innovation for our customers, partners, and industry. The work is challenging, expectations are clear, and trust is built into how we operate. If you're ready to take ownership, deliver meaningful impact, and help shape the future of AI-ready connectivity, join us today., Please be advised that Lumen does not require any form of payment from job applicants during the recruitment process. All legitimate job openings will be posted on our official website or communicated through official company email addresses. If you encounter any job offers that request payment in exchange for employment at Lumen, they are not for employment with us, but may relate to another company with a similar name.