Vulnerability Management Technical Lead

Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago provides superior pediatric care in a setting that offers the latest benefits and innovations in medical technology, research and family-friendly design. As the largest pediatric provider in the region with a 140-year legacy of excellence, kids and their families are at the center of all we do. Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago is ranked in all 10 specialties by the U.S. News & World Report.

The Technical Lead, Vulnerability Management serves as a senior technical lead within the Vulnerbility Management team, responsible for driving remediation, security modernization, and technical execution across the enterprise. This role leads cross-functional cybersecurity initiatives, ensuring vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and other security findings are resolved efficiently and in alignment with organizational risk tolerance. Beyond vulnerability management, the Technical Lead provides technical expertise and coordination for broader cybersecurity projects, secure configuration efforts, infrastructure and cloud hardening, and on-going engineering strategies. The position reports to the Dir Epic Core Services and Integration and plays a critical role in strengthening the organization’s overall security posture through disciplined, repeatable, and collaborative execution.

Essential Job Functions:

The Technical Lead, Vulnerability Management will demonstrate competencies across the following areas.

• Oversee technical execution of cybersecurity support and maintenance activities, including vulnerability remediation, penetration test and red team findings, vendor-reported issues, and configuration hardening efforts.
• Lead additional technical cybersecurity initiatives outside of vulnerability management, such as infrastructure and cloud security modernization, access hardening, endpoint security improvements, and secure configuration projects. 
• Serve as the primary liaison between the CTO team and the Cybersecurity organization.
• Coordinate remediation and security modernization efforts across infrastructure, applications, cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments.
• Partner with IT, Engineering, and Business stakeholders to define remediation plans, timelines, technical solutions, and success criteria.
• Ensure remediation tasks are completed within SLA, escalating blockers, and driving cross-functional accountability.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting that track remediation progress, SLA adherence, and aging findings.
• Provide regular updates to CTO and Cybersecurity leadership.
• Identify operational weaknesses and lead long-term hardening initiatives that strengthen enterprise security posture.
• Audit systems to identity security gaps as outlined on Lurie’s security policy.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field.
• 5–8 years of industry experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, vulnerability management, or IT operations.
• Experience in the healthcare industry is highly desired.
• Experience with infrastructure and cloud hardening, vulnerability management, patching, configuration management, and cloud security.
• Strong understanding of vulnerability scanning tools, CVSS scoring, and common remediation workflows.
• Ability to lead technical discussions and drive outcomes across cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with NIST CSF, CIS Controls, HIPAA, and PCI.
• Experience coordinating remediation for red team and pen test findings.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud security.
• Experience with ServiceNow, or similar ticketing systems.
• Preferred certifications include CISM, CCSP, or relevant GIAC certifications are preferred.
• Broad understanding of IT infrastructure, including networks, applications, databases, operating systems, backup, storage, and disaster recovery.
• Familiarity with information management practices, system development life cycle management, IT services management, agile and lean methodologies, infrastructure and operations, and EA and ITIL frameworks.
• Strong leadership skills with exceptional soft and interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation.
• Highly collaborative and supportive of business and of its ideals and strategies.
• Highly innovative with aptitude for foresight, systems thinking and design thinking.
• Excellent analytical, planning and organizational skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Knowledge of PowerShell and Internal Query Language scripting is required, Kusto Query Language is a plus.
• Knowledge of and Microsoft Defender management is required; knowledge of Microsoft Sentinel is a plus.

Education

Pay Range

At Lurie Children’s, we are committed to competitive and fair compensation aligned with market rates and internal equity, reflecting individual contributions, experience, and expertise. The pay range for this job indicates minimum and maximum targets for the position. Ranges are regularly reviewed to stay aligned with market conditions. In addition to base salary, Lurie Children’s offer a comprehensive rewards package that may include differentials for some hourly employees, leadership incentives for select roles, health and retirement benefits, and wellbeing programs. For more details on other compensation, consult your recruiter or click the following link to learn more about our benefits.

Benefit Statement

For full time and part time employees who work 20 or more hours per week we offer a generous benefits package that includes:

Medical, dental and vision insurance

Employer paid group term life and disability

Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Accounts

Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays and Paid Parental Leave

403(b) with a 5% employer match

Various voluntary benefits:

• Supplemental Life, AD&D and Disability

• Critical Illness, Accident and Hospital Indemnity coverage

• Tuition assistance

• Student loan servicing and support

• Adoption benefits

• Backup Childcare and Eldercare

• Employee Assistance Program, and other specialized behavioral health services and resources for employees and family members

• Discount on services at Lurie Children’s facilities

• Discount purchasing program

There’s a Place for You with Us

At Lurie Children’s, we embrace and celebrate building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills, and viewpoints — recognizing that different life experiences strengthen our workplace and the care we provide to the Chicago community and beyond. We treat everyone fairly, appreciate differences, and make meaningful connections that foster belonging. This is a place where you can be your best, so we can give our best to the patients and families who trust us with their care.  

Lurie Children’s and its affiliates are equal employment opportunity employers.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, order of protection status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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