Role Overview
We are looking for a Vulnerability Management professional to own and coordinate the end-to-end remediation lifecycle for workstation environments. The role will focus on assessing vulnerability risk, prioritising remediation activities, coordinating resolution across the team, validating fixes, and providing clear reporting on remediation progress and system health.
Key Responsibilities
Vulnerability Management Lifecycle
- Own the remediation of vulnerabilities identified across workstation environments, including laptops, desktops, VDI, ThinPC, and Moonshots.
- Perform risk assessments using CVSS scores and prioritise vulnerabilities and remediation activities accordingly.
- Assign vulnerabilities and remediation activities to appropriate team members and ensure clear, timely communication through to resolution.
- Track remediation activities to ensure vulnerabilities are addressed within agreed timelines.
Monitoring, Validation & Reporting
- Monitor vulnerability remediation progress using Brinqa dashboards and Smartsheets.
- Coordinate and conduct re-scanning after remediation to validate that identified vulnerabilities have been successfully resolved, with results typically reflected within two weeks.
- Provide regular reporting and metrics on remediation progress, team performance, outstanding vulnerabilities, and overall system health.
- Highlight overdue or higher-risk remediation items to support timely resolution and effective risk management.
Key Skills & Experience
- Experience in vulnerability management, remediation coordination, or a related security/endpoint management function.
- Understanding of vulnerability risk assessment and CVSS scoring.
- Experience working with workstation or endpoint environments such as laptops, desktops, VDI, and thin-client platforms.
- Ability to monitor remediation activity using dashboards, trackers, or similar reporting tools.
- Strong coordination, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to produce clear operational metrics and status reporting.
- Experience with Brinqa and Smartsheets is beneficial.
Things to know before you apply
- Work authorization: Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
- Accommodations: If you have a disability that requires reasonable accommodation to search for a job opening or submit an application, please email [email protected] with your request and contact information.
- AI in hiring: We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help us screen and assess applications more efficiently. Our team performs additional human review and ultimately decides who moves forward in our hiring process.
- Open position: Unless otherwise stated, this job posting is for an open position on our team.
- Language proficiency: We ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
- Inclusion: Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
