Vulnerability Management Specialist

About Kinaxis
Are you looking to join an innovative, market-leading company where you can truly elevate your career? At Kinaxis we are serious about culture, we are serious about technology, we are serious about customers, and we are serious about not taking ourselves too seriously. If you are looking to be part of an incredible growth story, then we might just be the place for you!
In 1984, we
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started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, 6 global office and a best-in-class HQ in Ottawa, Canada. As winners of several Top Employer awards globally, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.
Kinaxis is a global leader in modern supply chain orchestration, powering complex global supply chains, and supporting the people who manage them. Our powerful, AI infused platform provides full transparency and visibility across end-to-end supply chains, enabling our customers to make faster, better decisions. We are trusted by renowned global brands to provide the agility and predictability needed to navigate today’s volatility and disruption. With more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries, we are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.
Location
Ottawa and Toronto, CA - Hybrid
Other Canadian locations - Remote
About The Role
The Vulnerability Management Specialist, as a proficient-level professional with well-defined experience, will be primarily responsible for the enterprise Vulnerability Management program, ensuring that vulnerabilities across Kinaxis assets are discovered, prioritized by risk and remediated in a timely manner, as part of a global Security team that is responsible for all security-related handling for Kinaxis Corporate and Kinaxis RapidResponse Software-as-a-Service.
The incumbent will administer and continuously tune the vulnerability management platform, translate threat intelligence and vendor advisories into actionable, risk-based priorities, and drive remediation through strong coordination and clear guidance. This person will interface with cross functional teams within Kinaxis such as Corporate IT, SaaS Operations, Cloud Platform Engineering, Product Development, Business Systems teams, Customer Success, and Technology partners to reduce the organization’s attack surface and maintain company-wide information security.
Vacancy Status
This is an existing job vacancy
What you will do
Vulnerability Management Platform and Scanning
• Administer, configure and continuously tune the enterprise vulnerability management platform (scanners, agents, credentials, scan policies, asset tagging and integrations) to ensure complete and accurate coverage of assets across Kinaxis Corporate and SaaS environments.
• Measure and close asset coverage gaps by reconciling the platform against authoritative asset sources (CMDB, cloud inventories, EDR) and onboarding new environments as they are introduced.
• Automate and maintain scheduled vulnerability scans, and run on-demand scans in response to threat intelligence, zero-day disclosures or vendor security advisories.
• Manage the relationship with the vulnerability management platform vendor, holding regular check-ins, conducting periodic platform health checks, tracking support cases and evaluating new capabilities.
Threat Intelligence and Risk-Based Prioritization
• Review threat intelligence feeds and vendor advisories for applicability, and triage the impact of newly disclosed vulnerabilities on Kinaxis systems and services.
• Apply risk-based vulnerability management to prioritize remediation using exploitability (e.g., CISA KEV, EPSS), CVSS severity, asset criticality, exposure and business context.
Remediation Coordination and Risk Mitigation
• Coordinate vulnerability remediation with remediation teams (Corporate IT, Cloud Services and Produc

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