Vulnerability & Attack Surface Specialist

This role is crucial to identify, prioritize and communicate vulnerabilities and weaknesses in our digital infrastructure and ensure timely remediation of findings according to identified risk. This role is part of our Global Cyber Defense Center.

What you'll do

• Ensure comprehensive coverage of all assets through appropriate vulnerability scans
• Identify, analyze and prioritize vulnerabilities based on the risk these possess to our operations.
• Report vulnerabilities for remediation.
• Track effectiveness of remediation efforts using dashboards and reports, to ensure timely actions from teams and escalating issues as needed.
• Provide regular updates on the vulnerability management program status through comprehensive status reports and metrics.
• Knauf's attack surface, evaluating newly discovered assets with weaknesses or vulnerabilities, to identify risks and develop remediation plans.
• Recommend improvements to the vulnerability management program, including scan frequency, remediation timelines, and scanning technology, by staying informed of industry trends and participating in professional communities, events, and conferences.

Who you are

• You possess knowledge and understanding of complex IT systems architecture, including network technologies, software, hardware, middleware, and cloud infrastructure.
• You have experience with vulnerability scanning tools, attack surface management tools/services, and understand administration of IT components.
• You are knowledgeable about various security vulnerabilities and weaknesses and can translate technical problems into business risks.
• You understand secure software development, testing principles, and IT service management processes.
• You have 3+ years' experience in vulnerability management, security operations, or security engineering in an international, large-scale organization.
• You hold a bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Security, or Systems Engineering, or equivalent of 3+ years of experience in Information Security.
• You excel at team collaboration and working in a diverse, multicultural environment with English as the primary language.

WE.YOU.TOGETHER.

We all shape our lives in our own way. As an employer, we are an important part that indirectly supports this with a wide range of offers, as well as providing security and reliability for all employees. This includes, among other things:

• S ecurity: Permanent employment contract in a stable, successful family-owned business
• Flexibility: A wide time window for flexible working and weekly home office days
• Fitness and health: Discounts on various sports and leisure activities, active health promotion, private health care, occupational safety, and more
• Feel Welcome: Welcome days and individual onboarding, company and team events
• Personal career and career development: Individual support for extra-occupational studies, further education and training courses
• Inspiring work environment: Our nicely designed office offers you an environment that fosters creativity and productivity. We love coming together as a team here!

Knauf as an employer

Knauf is an international market leader in the building materials' industry. About 42.500 employees at over 300 locations worldwide generate a turnover of over 15,6 billion euros. The foundation of our success as family business are our corporate values of humanity, partnership, commitment and entrepreneurial spirit. As a subsidiary, Knauf IT has the mandate to drive commercial excellence through digitalization for all companies of the Knauf Group globally. Our mission is to rethink what it means to provide value to our customers and thereby drive growth for our businesses around the world.

The Knauf Group is a proud equal opportunities employer. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive working environment and therefore base all our employment selection decisions, within all aspects of our business, on experience, skill, and integrity. We strongly encourage applicants from all walks of life to apply for our positions, irrespective of age, sex, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, origin, religion, etc.