Senior Qualys Engineer, Cyber Defense Centre

Job Description:

Want to drive digital change in automotive?

At our client we are making bold digital visions come true. We aim to lead the automotive world by creating a digital ecosystem built around making our customers' lives easier. We are looking for curious, creative people who want to change the world with an innovative mindset and forward-thinking.

What’s in it for you? 
Would you like to be part of a growing organization and support the advancement of cybersecurity in the auto industry? Do you want to be a part of our transformation and our mission to enable the organisation to act correctly around cyber risks?

The Corporate Cybersecurity team’s responsibility is to guide, advise and protect auto clients' and their customers by designing and embedding security in everything we do. Our security teams consist of experts in all areas of cybersecurity – cyber security defense center 24/7 operation and cyber defense products.

You will reside within the product organization of the Cyber Defense Center (CDC). The product organization is made up of Product Engineering and Product Management. Both functions work closely together with the end goal of protecting the DXC Client by maintaining, improving and developing cyber defense products.

What you’ll do

You will work in a global software engineering team that takes full end to end responsibility of the solutions under your responsibility. Together you, develop, deploy and maintain products related to Endpoint Vulnerability Management.

The team is using Qualys as the primary technology for building products.

You will be working in an agile context meaning planning and delivery is done in iterations and all team members are expected to contribute to the full life cycle of the products.

Together with the team you will ensure that our solutions meet our company’s needs and stakeholders’ expectation.

Who you are.

You are a passionate about vulnerability management and have extensive knowledge/experience of how Qualys works, operates and is maintained in an enterprise context. We expect you to be supportive of your team members, share knowledge and contribute to a positive team dynamic.

Typical everyday tasks:

• Attend team meetings.

• Support more junior colleagues.

• Independently work on improving services / products.

• Collaborate with Product Management function and stakeholders on potential new products and/or development of existing products.

• Support backlog refinements and planning.

We believe you have a profile that maps to the following behaviors/skills:

• Has extensive knowledge/experience of how Qualys works, operates, is maintained and how to fully utilize Qualys in an enterprise organisation like our client have.

• Understand how Qualys operates in a modern digital eco-system with the ability to utilize the tool fully in a network environment consisting of a segmented on-prem network and multiple cloud environments.

• Understand what dependencies that are relevant to consider when implementing and operating Qualys. For example – you have experience and understand how to make the most of Asset Management Data in an End-Point Vulnerability context.

• Represents the technical expertise available to Product Management. Where Product Management points out the needs of the organization and the Engineering community supports on how to reach that goal.

• You know how to work closely with Product Management and actively support with development of new/updated product concepts. This includes but is not limited to:

  • The ability to see how we can leverage existing and new features in Qualys in a way that maximizes value for our client.

  • Build POCs and help evaluate feasibility of product concepts.

  • The ability to understand and manage dependency and risks related to product concepts.

  • The ability to understand how we use technology to meet customer needs and expectations.

  • In collaboration with product management, engage with stakeholders and capture/understand needs.

• Represent a technical leader in the team and can guide and support more junior profiles. In expanding the services as well related to best practices for operations/maintenance.

  • Will also act as technical leadership in dialogue with stakeholders

• Can support the teams with Agile events such as dailies, planning events, retrospectives etc.

• Participates in dialogue with Qualys as a supplier to impact roadmap and stay up to date with coming changes to which our clients can leverage.

• Participates in dialogue with representatives from teams flagged as dependencies.

• Can support the team with defining and managing relevant delivery related metrics and make use of the information to support the continuous improvement and learning of the team.

• Support stakeholders in how to utilize endpoint services

• Build stakeholder relationships and engagements

Non-critical but commendable skills:

• Patch Management

• Vulnerability remediation support

If you are passionate about cybersecurity, want to have fun at work and have a track record of success in endpoint vulnerability management, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity!

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