Job Title: Vulnerability Management Engineer
Job Description
We are seeking a hands-on Software Supply Chain Security Engineer specializing in vulnerability management to identify, investigate, prioritize, and remediate security issues across software products and the development environment. In this role, you go beyond generating security scan reports by deeply analyzing findings from security scanning and AI-assisted tools, determining whether vulnerabilities represent legitimate risks or false positives, and partnering with engineering and security teams to drive practical remediation strategies. You will work directly with scanning tools, source code, software dependencies, and development teams, independently investigating complex findings, tuning tool configurations, and ensuring vulnerabilities are resolved effectively. This position offers the opportunity to help secure software behind advanced AI, cloud, and networking technologies while growing your expertise in DevSecOps and software supply chain security.
Responsibilities
- Review and analyze vulnerabilities identified by software composition analysis, static analysis, dependency scanning, and other security tools.
- Investigate findings beyond the initial scan output to determine exploitability, severity, business impact, and remediation priority.
- Distinguish legitimate vulnerabilities from false positives, duplicate findings, and issues that are not applicable to the product environment.
- Identify the source and technical cause of vulnerabilities within application code, open-source components, dependencies, or build configurations.
- Partner with software development, security, DevOps, and product teams to develop and implement effective remediation plans.
- Participate directly in vulnerability remediation, including updating dependencies, modifying configurations, recommending code changes, or identifying compensating controls.
- Interpret detailed security reports and translate technical findings into clear, actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Configure and tune security scanning tools to improve detection quality, reduce false positives, and align with the organizations security requirements.
- Track and manage a high volume of vulnerabilities through investigation, prioritization, remediation, validation, and closure.
- Help integrate security scanning and vulnerability management practices into development and CI/CD workflows.
- Evaluate findings generated by AI-assisted security tools and validate their accuracy and relevance.
- Document technical findings, remediation decisions, risk assessments, and accepted exceptions in a clear and organized manner.
- Collaborate across security, software development, DevOps, and product teams while maintaining the ability to work independently on complex issues.
Essential Skills
- 5+ years of experience in DevSecOps or software security, with a focus on vulnerability analysis and remediation.
- Hands-on experience with security scanning and analysis tools, including Black Duck or similar software composition analysis tools.
- Strong programming experience with at least one of Python, C, C++, or Go for investigating and remediating vulnerabilities in code and dependencies.
- Practical experience with software supply chain security, including open-source dependencies, SBOMs, SPDX, or CycloneDX.
- Familiarity with CVE, CWE, CVSS, exploitability analysis, and risk-based vulnerability prioritization.
- Experience integrating security scanning into CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
- Ability to configure and tune security tools, troubleshoot scan results, and systematically reduce false positives.
- Knowledge of Linux environments, build systems, package managers, and dependency management in modern software development.
- Experience upgrading, replacing, or patching vulnerable software components in complex software ecosystems.
- Strong organization, documentation, and communication skills to clearly articulate findings and remediation plans.
- Ability to work independently while effectively collaborating with security, software development, DevOps, and product teams.
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Experience with software supply chain security practices and tools, including SBOM generation and management using standards such as SPDX or CycloneDX.
- Exposure to AI-assisted security scanning, code analysis, or vulnerability remediation tools and workflows.
- Familiarity with embedded software, firmware, C/C++, or systems-level development is an asset.
- Understanding of software build systems and CI/CD pipelines, including configuration, automation, and integration of security checks.
- Knowledge of common vulnerability databases and frameworks, including CVE, CWE, and CVSS, and the ability to apply them in risk assessments.
- Experience in DevSecOps practices, including integrating security into development and operations processes.
- Experience working with software composition analysis, static analysis, and dependency scanning tools to manage open-source and third-party risk.
- Ability to interpret complex technical security reports and translate them into clear, actionable recommendations.
- Comfort working with modern cloud, networking, and AI-related technologies from a security and vulnerability management perspective.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Ottawa, ON.
Pay And Benefits
The pay range for this position is $60.00 - $80.00/hr.
Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
Job Type & Location
This is a Contract position based out of Ottawa, ON.
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Ottawa,ON.
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