Manager Information Security - Cyber Threat Exposure

The Role

The Manager of Information Security—Cyber Threat Exposure Management plays a critical role in solving complex challenges and building the infrastructure that powers what’s next for our customers and our world.

In this role, you won’t just manage vulnerabilities—you’ll shape how Lumen identifies, prioritizes, and reduces cyber risk across a rapidly evolving digital landscape. From strengthening asset visibility to advancing risk-based vulnerability management and governance, your work directly enables innovation by ensuring our foundation is secure, resilient, and ready to scale.

Location

This is a remote postion open to candidates based anywhere in the US.  

The Main Responsibilities

This role matures vulnerability and asset management programs, improves data quality, advances risk-based remediation, and collaborates across security and technology teams to reduce enterprise exposure.

• Own the strategy, execution, and continuous maturity of the enterprise vulnerability management program, driving measurable reduction of cyber risk.
• Implement and refine risk-based prioritization using threat intelligence, exploitability, asset criticality, exposure, and business impact to focus remediation on the highest-risk vulnerabilities.
• Ensure comprehensive visibility across internal, cloud, and externally exposed assets through effective asset discovery, inventory governance, ownership assignment, and data quality management.
• Oversee vulnerability management and asset discovery platforms, supporting tool optimization, process automation, and consistent operational workflows.
• Drive remediation accountability by partnering with Security, IT, Cloud, Engineering, and business stakeholders to address critical vulnerabilities, visibility gaps, and risk exceptions.
• Define, monitor, and report key program metrics, including vulnerability backlog, mean time to remediate, SLA compliance, exception trends, asset coverage, and external exposure trends.
• Deliver clear executive-level reporting that translates technical findings into business risk, remediation priorities, and measurable program outcomes.
• Support audit, regulatory, and compliance requirements by maintaining evidence, reporting, and processes aligned to applicable security frameworks and control expectations.
• Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team while fostering accountability, collaboration, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.

What We Look For in a Candidate

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in information security, vulnerability management, security risk assessment, application security, system security, network security, or a related discipline.
• Experience leading, coaching, or managing technical personnel in a security, infrastructure, cloud, or technology operations environment.
• Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
• Broad technical knowledge of current and emerging technologies used within enterprise infrastructure, cloud environments, applications, and security operations.
• Experience communicating technical security risk to technical and non-technical audiences, including management and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Applicable professional or technical certifications should be in place, or the candidate must be willing to pursue relevant certification.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional or technical certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GISEC, Security+, cloud security certifications, or related security credentials.
• Experience with modern vulnerability management, asset discovery, cyber asset attack surface management, cloud security posture manage