Cloud Security and Vulnerability Management Consultant

Lumen Technologies • ,

2d • $67,703 - $99,297 • Remote

About The Position

Lumen is seeking a Cloud Security & Vulnerability Management consultant to join a team focused on delivering customer-facing security assessments and vulnerability management engagements. The role primarily involves cloud security posture assessment, evaluating customer environments against compliance frameworks, identifying vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, and assisting customers in understanding their security posture and developing remediation strategies. A secondary focus includes vulnerability management, which entails deploying and managing scanning platforms, configuring and tuning these platforms with customers, developing patching strategies, and guiding remediation prioritization and planning. This is a hands-on consulting position within a small, dynamic team, requiring direct customer interaction, the use of commercial and custom tooling, and contributions to shared platforms and codebases.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS preferred; Azure, M365 also valued).
• Understanding of cloud security posture management (CSPM) concepts and the differences between platform-level tools (e.g., Wiz) and assessment-focused tooling.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as CIS Benchmarks, SOC2, PCI-DSS, or NIST.
• Understanding of vulnerability management concepts: vulnerability types, severity scoring, remediation prioritization.
• Strong communicator able to explain technical findings to both engineers and executives.
• Comfortable writing Python and working in Git.
• Experience with AI-assisted development and automation tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot Studio and agent building, Power Automate, and Claude.
• Willingness to learn new tools and platforms quickly.
• 3–5 years’ experience in cloud security, vulnerability management, security consulting, or a related technical security role.
• Relevant certifications (AWS, Azure, CISSP, or similar), however, demonstrated experience matters more.

Nice To Haves

• Microsoft 365 security experience (Entra ID, Defender, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, Intune).
• Experience with cloud security scanning tools or CSPM platforms.
• Experience with vulnerability management platforms, particularly Qualys (preferred) or Tenable.

Responsibilities

• Deliver cloud security posture assessments across AWS, Azure, and Microsoft 365 environments.
• Evaluate customer environments against CIS Benchmarks, cloud provider security frameworks and best practices, and customer-specific compliance standards.
• Use custom-developed assessment frameworks and cloud-native security tooling to identify misconfigurations and security gaps.
• Perform cloud resource inventory and exposure analysis.
• Prioritize findings by risk and develop clear remediation guidance.
• Deploy and manage vulnerability scanning platforms in customer environments.
• Configure and tune scanning platforms alongside customers, including patching strategy development.
• Analyze scan results, prioritize findings by severity and business impact, and guide remediation planning.
• Understand vulnerability types, severity frameworks (e.g., CVSS, vendor-specific), and how to communicate risk to customers.
• Participate in customer-facing activities: kickoff calls, technical interviews, working sessions, and findings presentations.
• Contribute to assessment reports and remediation roadmaps for technical and executive audiences.
• Communicate technical risk clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Contribute to a custom-built cloud security assessment platform (AWS native services).
• Develop and maintain custom security checks and automated compliance scanning tools.
• Work with AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure components.
• Write and maintain scripts for assessment automation and reporting.

Benefits

• Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing.
• Bonus structure (short-term incentives, long-term incentives and/or sales compensation).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed