Consultant, Surface Area Management - Vulnerability Management

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Job Title: Consultant, Surface Area Management - Vulnerability Management
Location: Atlanta, GA, South United States, USA

Company: Cargill, Inc
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Cargill's size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials - from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Vulnerability Management Consultant safeguards the organization's digital assets by identifying, assessing, and helping remediate vulnerabilities across the global enterprise. With limited supervision, this job maintains vulnerability management systems' effectiveness and improves the organization's overall cybersecurity posture through close coordination with stakeholders such as IT, security engineering, and application owners.

Key Accountabilities

Essential Functions:

• Vulnerability Management Systems: Analyzes current security protocols and drafts strategies for designing, implementing, and operating vulnerability management systems.
• External Surface Area: Monitors the organization's external surface area from an outsider's perspective, ensuring that all potential entry points are secure and monitored.

Responsibilities:

• Analyzing vulnerability data from tools such as Tenable, Qualys, or Rapid7.
• Prioritizing vulnerabilities based on risk context.
• Tracking remediation process and driving accountability with system owners through ticketing systems like Jira or ServiceNow.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across IT and security teams.
• Generate and present reports on vulnerability trends, SLA compliance, and risk posture.
• Support vulnerability scanning operations and troubleshoot scan coverage issues.
• Collaborate with other cyber security teams like Threat Intelligence to validate and enrich findings.
• Assist in patch validation and change coordination for remediation activities.
• Contribute to the tuning of scanning tools and development of custom dashboards.
• Stay informed on emerging threats, CVEs, zero-days, and best practices in vulnerability management.
• Solid understanding of CVSS, MITRE ATT&CK, and modern threat landscapes.
• Familiarity with remediation strategies on Windows, Linux, networking equipment, and cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP, and/or OCI) - focused specialty in cloud services is a plus.

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