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GuidePoint Security

Cybersecurity consulting, software solutions, managed services

Exposure Management Engineer - Mid-Atlantic region, Remote

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Remote in USA
RemoteU.S.-based applicants only; up to 10% travel may be required.
CybersecuritySecurity Engineering & Architecture
No H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 3 years of experience in cybersecurity engineering.
  • Experience with exposure management or risk-based vulnerability management.
  • Hands-on experience with the Axonius Asset Cloud or a comparable cyber asset attack surface management or asset intelligence platform, including configuring adapters, correlation, queries, and enforcement actions.
  • Experience building and maintaining unified asset inventories from disparate security and information technology data sources.
  • Experience configuring asset criticality, ownership, and business context to drive risk-based prioritization.
  • Familiarity with vulnerability management, exposure management, or cloud-native application protection platforms such as Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, Wiz, or Axonius.
  • Scripting experience in Python, PowerShell, or a similar language.
  • Experience working with APIs or automating workflows.
  • Understanding of security fundamentals, including vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, identity and access control, and security monitoring.
  • Ability to work with engineering teams and communicate effectively.
  • Ability to use emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence tools, to solve problems and support business outcomes.
  • Authorization to work for any employer in the United States.
  • Ability to travel up to 10%.
  • Ability to perform sedentary work, use the wrists, hands, and/or fingers substantially for at least 8 hours a day, and maintain close visual acuity for computer-terminal viewing and/or extensive reading for at least 8 hours a day.
Responsibilities
  • Deploy, configure, and maintain the Axonius Asset Cloud across complex hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises client environments.
  • Design and build data connections and adapters to onboard data from security, information technology, identity, cloud, endpoint, and network sources, including endpoint detection and response, vulnerability scanners, mobile device management, identity providers, configuration management databases, cloud providers, next-generation firewalls, and case management tools, via application programming interfaces.
  • Configure and tune the Axonius asset correlation engine so data from disparate sources resolves into unified, de-duplicated asset records.
  • Provide daily operational support, monitoring, and maintenance of Axonius, including adapter health, data freshness, and system performance.
  • Work with third parties and client tool owners to ensure data is correctly onboarded, credentialed, and refreshed on schedule.
  • Operate and maintain security platforms, including vulnerability management, cyber asset attack surface management, and cloud-native application protection platforms.
  • Monitor security findings and support prioritization and remediation workflows.
  • Assist with platform tuning, configuration optimization, and integration with client environments.
  • Support onboarding new assets, applications, and cloud environments into security platforms.
  • Review exposure findings and assist with prioritization and remediation tracking.
  • Help manage remediation workflows with client engineering teams.
  • Generate operational dashboards and reporting for security leadership.
  • Maintain asset inventory coverage and scanning accuracy.
  • Configure risk-based vulnerability management in Axonius to prioritize vulnerabilities based on business impact, exposure, and exploitability rather than relying on Common Vulnerability Scoring System scores alone.
  • Ingest and consolidate vulnerability findings from multiple scanners, including Tenable, Qualys, and Rapid7, into Axonius, and configure de-duplication so each vulnerability reported by different tools is represented once.
  • Build and maintain asset criticality ratings and business-context tags in Axonius so prioritization reflects each asset’s business importance.
  • Enrich findings with threat intelligence and exploitability signals, such as known-exploited and active-in-the-wild status, to surface vulnerabilities attackers are most likely to use.
  • Design saved queries and dynamic asset and vulnerability views to isolate high-risk, exposed, mission-critical findings and filter out low-risk noise and items already within service-level agreements.
  • Configure risk scoring, severity mapping, and prioritization logic that combines Common Vulnerability Scoring System scores, exposure, exploit status, asset criticality, and existing mitigating controls.
  • Build Axonius Enforcement Center actions to automate remediation workflows, including creating and routing tickets to the correct owners in ServiceNow or Jira, notifying teams, and tracking service-level agreement and patch-window adherence.
  • Configure escalation logic and service-level-agreement-based rules for critical and zero-day vulnerabilities requiring faster-than-standard remediation.
  • Build dashboards and reporting on remediation progress, service-level agreement compliance, risk reduction over time, and coverage for operational teams and security leadership.
  • Continuously tune prioritization models and reduce alert fatigue so client teams focus on findings that reduce risk.
  • Configure Axonius data connections across security, information technology, cloud, identity, endpoint, and network sources to build a comprehensive, real-time inventory of devices, users, cloud resources, software-as-a-service, and software.
  • Tune the asset correlation and de-duplication engine so records from disparate sources merge into a single trusted asset model.
  • Configure coverage and gap analysis to surface unmanaged, unknown, or non-compliant assets, such as devices missing endpoint detection and response, endpoints missing an agent, or assets absent from the configuration management database.
  • Build and maintain asset categorization, tagging, and business-context enrichment, including owner, environment, criticality, data sensitivity, and location, for downstream prioritization and ownership.
  • Configure asset ownership assignment so each finding maps to an accountable owner.
  • Establish and maintain data hygiene, including adapter scheduling, credential management, field mapping, and data freshness, to keep inventory accurate and current.
  • Configure enforcement actions that synchronize inventory and other systems, such as pushing corrected or enriched asset data to the configuration management database, opening tickets for coverage gaps, or triggering onboarding of missing agents.
  • Build saved queries, dashboards, and reports that provide clients with ongoing visibility into asset inventory, coverage, and policy gaps.
  • Compile and reconcile asset inventories from disparate data sources using knowledge of network, cloud, and endpoint technologies used in enterprise environments.
  • Partner with security information and event management, automation, and security operations teams to use Axonius asset data for detections, automation, and exposure analysis.
  • Assist with the operation and optimization of cloud-native application protection platforms such as Wiz, Prisma Cloud, and Orca.
  • Support cloud posture monitoring and exposure analysis.
  • Assist with investigating cloud misconfigurations, identity exposures, and attack paths.
  • Work with senior engineers to onboard new cloud environments.
  • Develop scripts and automation to improve security workflows.
  • Build integrations between security tools and ticketing systems.
  • Automate reporting, vulnerability triage, and remediation tracking.
  • Use APIs and automation frameworks to reduce manual operational effort.
  • Use the Axonius Query Language, REST API, and Enforcement Center to automate asset queries, enrichment, ticketing, and remediation actions.
  • Participate in regular operational cadence meetings with clients.
  • Provide updates on platform findings and remediation progress.
  • Assist senior engineers in troubleshooting security platform issues.
  • Contribute to documentation and operational playbooks.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with cloud-native application protection platforms such as Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Orca, or Lacework.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
  • Familiarity with container security and Kubernetes.
  • Experience integrating security tools with ticketing platforms such as Jira or ServiceNow.
  • Direct engineering experience with Axonius adapters, correlation tuning, and the Enforcement Center.
  • Experience with cyber asset management, asset discovery, and network enumeration tools.
  • Experience in Linux environments and retrieving data via APIs from security and infrastructure tools, including endpoint detection and response, identity providers, next-generation firewalls, and cloud providers.
  • Experience using AI-assisted tools such as large language models, copilots, or agent frameworks to accelerate scripting, analysis, and security operations workflows.

About the company

GuidePoint Security helps organizations assess and reduce cybersecurity risk through a mix of security technologies, consulting, and managed security services for enterprise and government clients. It works by assessing a client’s security posture, recommending and deploying appropriate tools and controls, and continuously monitoring and managing security operations to detect and respond to threats. The company differentiates itself with deep industry knowledge and hands-on practitioner experience from the DoD, Intelligence Communities, and Fortune 500, enabling tailored solutions for complex, mission-critical needs instead of generic products. Its goal is to help clients make informed security decisions, lower risk exposure, and defend against evolving cyber threats using a combination of technology, expertise, and managed services.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Reston, Virginia

Founded

2011

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What believers are saying

  • September 29, 2026 Optery partnership expands employee and executive data-removal demand.
  • August 24, 2026 SOCRadar collaboration strengthens external threat intelligence for GuidePoint customers.
  • September 15, 2026 IAM services align with rising AI-agent and machine-identity security budgets.

What critics are saying

  • Audax-backed growth capital pressures GuidePoint to expand faster and sustain margins by 2027.
  • Reseller partnerships with SOCRadar, Optery, JumpCloud, and Astelia leave vendors controlling product differentiation.
  • Okta, SailPoint, and Microsoft Entra compress IAM services; GuidePoint needs repeatable proprietary outcomes.

What makes GuidePoint Security unique

  • GuidePoint bundles advisory, integration, and resale across enterprise and public-sector security.
  • September 15, 2026 IAM launch targets agentic AI, IDV, and non-human identities.
  • September 2, 2026 Astelia partnership adds reachability-first exposure management on existing scanners.

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Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Paid Holidays
  • Unlimited Paid Time Off
  • Remote Work Options
  • Phone/Internet Stipend
  • 401(k) Retirement Plan
  • Pet Insurance

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Headcount

6 month growth

18%

1 year growth

18%

2 year growth

18%
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