Senior Manager, Vulnerability Assessment

🕒 September 10

🌐 Mexico, United States – Remote

🇲🇽 Mexico – Remote 🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $103k - $191.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Nielsen

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1923

📱 Media

📣 Marketing

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-02

Media • Data Analytics • Marketing

Nielsen is a global measurement and data analytics company that provides audience measurement and media metrics solutions across various platforms. They offer cross-media measurement services spanning TV, digital, streaming, and audio for more precise media planning and marketing optimization. Nielsen's flagship product, Nielsen ONE, integrates these services to deliver a comprehensive view of audience habits and preferences. Additionally, they offer insights and tools for understanding consumer behavior and optimizing marketing strategies, backed by a robust data infrastructure including big data and panel methodologies. Nielsen also champions diversity and inclusion, emphasizing a culture supported by a diverse workforce and numerous business resource groups.

📋 Description

• Lead and mentor a high-performing Application Security engineering team • Align team priorities with organizational goals and operational challenges • Drive Application and Pipeline Security strategy toward an autonomous, AI-driven DevSecOps model • Pioneer agentic security workflows for automated remediation • Establish architectural guardrails and validation standards for secure AI-assisted development • Partner with Platform Engineering to define cloud security baselines and Policy-as-Code guardrails • Oversee application penetration testing, triage findings, integrate them into pipeline guardrails, and ensure SLA-based remediation • Establish observability and regulatory standards across the development lifecycle • Implement supply chain safeguards, including SBOM, automated CI/CD security gates, and risk-approval protocols • Prioritize and resolve security vulnerabilities across application environments and cloud infrastructures • Refine SAST, DAST, SCA, and IaC scanning telemetry to minimize false positives • Design automated AWS response triggers for rapid isolation and runtime threat containment • Embed security into IDEs and CI/CD pipelines • Architect and report performance indicators such as MTTR and Auto-Fix Acceptance Rates • Define policies and ensure compliance across development teams • Adapt departmental plans and priorities to address resource and operational challenges • Provide subject matter guidance to employees, colleagues, and customers

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in specialized roles across Application Security or Cloud Engineering • At least 3 years in a management or leadership capacity • Proficiency in designing AWS security governance and deploying automated incident mitigation within large-scale cloud ecosystems • Mastery of CI/CD orchestration, containerization safeguards, and SAST/DAST/SCA integration • Advanced automation capabilities and ability to architect security tooling • Familiarity with AI-enhanced security technologies, including LLM-driven remediation tools and automated code-fixing platforms • Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Computer Science or Cybersecurity, or equivalent professional background • Substantial professional history as a Staff or Principal Software Engineer, or DevOps Specialist, before moving into security management • Track record of partnerships with software engineering and platform teams • AWS Certified Security – Specialty or AWS Solutions Architect – Professional certifications • 5-8 years with overseeing background • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness plans • 401(k) with a Nielsen company match • Generous paid time off policy • Company-provided vehicle depending on the role • Discretionary incentive/bonus eligibility depending on the role • Potential eligibility for bonuses, equity, or other incentives