Remote Senior Vulnerability Engineer

Peraton is seeking a Senior Vulnerability Engineer to lead enterprise vulnerability management, exposure management, compliance auditing, and web application scanning initiatives across AWS cloud and on-prem environments.

This is a highly technical engineering role focused on Tenable One, Nessus, Tenable Web App Scanning (WAS), cloud security, compliance auditing, and enterprise-scale vulnerability operations. The ideal candidate has experience supporting large vulnerability management programs within regulated environments and can help optimize scanning, reporting, remediation, and exposure management processes.

10+ years of cybersecurity, vulnerability management, or security engineering experience

-Strong hands-on experience with:

-Tenable One

-Nessus

-Tenable Web App Scanning (WAS)

-Experience supporting authenticated and non-authenticated web application scanning

-Experience with AWS cloud environments and cloud security concepts

-Strong understanding of:

Vulnerability Management

Exposure Management

Attack Surface Management

Compliance Auditing

Enterprise Security Operations

-Experience integrating security platforms with enterprise technologies

-Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities

-Excellent client-facing communication and project management skills

-Engineer and maintain enterprise vulnerability management platforms using Tenable One, Nessus, and Tenable WAS

-Configure and support authenticated and non-authenticated web application scanning

-Perform vulnerability and compliance assessments across cloud, operating systems, databases, applications, and network infrastructure

-Manage asset discovery, attack surface visibility, and exposure prioritization initiatives

-Troubleshoot complex scanning, authentication, TLS/SSL, networking, and infrastructure issues

-Support compliance auditing efforts aligned to federal frameworks and security standards

Integrate Tenable solutions with CyberArk, Splunk, ServiceNow, AWS, and other enterprise platforms

-Support remediation validation, audit readiness, reporting, and dashboard development

-Drive process improvements, automation initiatives, and vulnerability management strategy -CyberArk integration experience

-Splunk experience

-ServiceNow integration experience

-API development and automation experience

-Python, PowerShell, or Ansible experience

-Federal compliance experience

-Experience supporting large-scale enterprise vulnerability programs