Cloud Vulnerability Remediation Engineer
Austin, TX – Hybrid – Locals Preferred
One year contract
Looking for the candidates who can work without any visa sponsorship.
A Network Security Analyst I will patch and complete vulnerability remediation as they are essential to protect systems, reduce organizational risk, maintain compliance, and ensure reliable operations. this asset will provide vulnerability management and compliance to the TxDOT cloud environment. The Cloud Vulnerability Remediation Engineer is responsible for identifying, assessing, and remediating security vulnerabilities in cloud environments to reduce enterprise risk and maintain compliance with established security policies. This role focuses on vulnerability remediation activities across cloud infrastructure and platform services, coordinating patching, configuration changes, and compensating controls in alignment with approved vulnerability management and change management processes.
The role works closely with Cloud Operations, Security, Application, and Risk teams to ensure vulnerabilities are remediated within required timelines and that cloud workloads remain secure, stable, and compliant.
Key Responsibilities:
-Review and analyze vulnerability findings affecting cloud hosted resources identified through approved scanning and security tools.
-Assess vulnerability applicability and risk impact for cloud infrastructure, platform services, and supporting components.
-Plan and execute remediation actions, including patching, configuration changes, and security hardening, in accordance with established remediation timelines.
-Validate remediation results and confirm successful closure of assigned vulnerability tasks.
-Perform cloud based patching and update activities for supported workloads using approved processes.
-Implement cloud security configuration changes required to reduce exposure where vendor patches are unavailable.
-Create, update, and maintain remediation tasks and change records in the system of record to support audit and compliance requirements.
-Ensure remediation activities follow established change management, approval, and validation processes.
-Provide remediation status updates and evidence for security reporting, audits, and leadership reviews.
-Support remediation efforts that require temporary mitigations or compensating controls when permanent fixes are not immediately available
-Partner with Security, Cloud Architecture, and Application teams to resolve complex or cross platform vulnerabilities.
-Identify recurring issues, remediation blockers, or process gaps and recommend improvements.
-Support enterprise efforts to reduce technical debt and improve cloud security posture over time.
****TxDOT NOT-TO-EXCEED RATE IS $92.00/HR*****
Term of Service: The initial term of the contract shall commence upon execution of the contract and expires one year from commencement with the option to renew for two, one-year period(s) at TxDOT's sole discretion. TxDOT will provide an intent to renew, in writing, a minimum of 30 days prior to expiration of the current term.
NOTE: The dates, listed below, are estimated and based on the anticipated award date of the contract and will be in accordance with the DIR contract.
1st Renewal Option: One year based on commencement.
2nd Renewal Option: One year based on commencement.
II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
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Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
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Years
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Required/Preferred
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Experience
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3
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Required
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Professional IT experience, with hands on exposure to cloud infrastructure, system administration, or vulnerability remediation.
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3
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Required
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Experience supporting cloud hosted systems in at least one enterprise cloud environment.
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3
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Required
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Understanding of vulnerability remediation concepts, including patching, configuration hardening, and compensating controls.
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3
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Required
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Familiarity with IT service management and change processes.
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3
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Required
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Strong analytical and documentation skills.
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3
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Required
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Ability to follow defined security and remediation procedures.
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3
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Required
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Effective communication and collaboration skills.
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1
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Preferred
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Exposure to enterprise vulnerability management processes and remediation SLAs.
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1
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Preferred
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Knowledge of cloud security posture management, security baselines, or risk reporting.
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1
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Preferred
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Relevant cloud or security certifications.
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