Vulnerability Assessment Team

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Title: Vulnerability Assessment (VA) Team Lead (CBP) Clearance: Active Top Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility, ability to obtain and maintain a CBP Background Investigation (CBP BI) and EOD, active BI strongly preferred. We can begin processing for candidates who do not hold one. Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship required Location: Reston, VA - Hybrid 3-5 days Salary Range: $155,000-175,000 Signing Bonus: $10,000 for candidates with an active CBP BI. Payable after 90 days; standard terms apply. Required Certification(s): One of the following: Active Certified Information Security Manager or Active Certified Information Security System Professional.  

The Role

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.

What Success Looks Like

Objective 1: Find what actually matters, not just what a scanner flags

• Findings get prioritized by real exploitability and impact to this environment, not just a generic severity score.