Lead Cybersecurity Test Engineer

Acuity Inc.•Conyers, GA

19h•$150,000 - $270,000

About The Position

The Cybersecurity Test Engineer supports product security testing, vulnerability management, compliance coordination, and security validation across software, firmware, cloud, and system components. The role performs or coordinates penetration testing activities, reviews findings from security tools such as Aqua and Snyk, supports vulnerability triage, and serves as a technical liaison between R&D, Legal, Compliance, Product, and Quality. The position ensures security findings are understood, prioritized, tracked, remediated, verified, and reported according to organizational policies, quality expectations, and applicable regulatory or contractual requirements. It contributes to Software Quality / System Quality Engineering by strengthening defect prevention, release readiness, customer trust, and secure product delivery.

Requirements

Experience in cybersecurity, product security, application security, DevSecOps, or security testing.
Familiarity with vulnerability scanners and security testing tools.
Understanding of vulnerability severity, CVEs, CVSS, exploitability, and remediation workflows.
Experience working with development teams to resolve security findings.
Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Snyk, Aqua, or similar security tools.
Experience with penetration testing or ethical hacking.
Knowledge of embedded systems, firmware security, cloud security, or connected device security.
Familiarity with compliance frameworks, secure SDLC, SBOM, or product security programs.
Security certifications such as Security+, CEH, GIAC, CISSP, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

Perform targeted product security testing and vulnerability validation.
Support penetration testing activities for software, firmware, APIs, cloud services, and connected systems.
Review security test results from internal and external assessments.
Validate security fixes and support regression testing.
Identify gaps in security test coverage.
Review findings from Aqua, Snyk, and other security scanning platforms.
Triage vulnerabilities according to severity, exploitability, product impact, and customer risk.
Partner with engineering teams to ensure findings are documented and assigned.
Track vulnerability remediation against defined SLAs and verify remediation and closure evidence.
Serve as a technical liaison between R&D, Legal, Compliance, Product, and Quality on product security matters.
Support compliance evidence collection, security documentation, customer security questionnaires, audit responses, and regulatory inquiries.
Translate legal or compliance expectations into actionable engineering requirements.
Advise engineering teams on secure design and secure coding practices.
Participate in design reviews for security-sensitive features and support threat modeling and risk assessments.
Help define security acceptance criteria and quality gates.
Maintain vulnerability dashboards and security quality metrics.
Support executive reporting on vulnerability backlog, aging, SLA performance, and risk posture.
Ensure alignment between security policies and operational workflows.
Partner with Quality Operations on security SLA reporting.