Vulnerability Operations Center Lead

The role\nWe're building a Vulnerability Operations Center from the ground up and need a senior practitioner to lead it. You'll own the full vulnerability management lifecycle - from detection through triage to remediation tracking and reporting - across Nebius' cloud infrastructure, product and hardware stack. This is a high-impact role with big ownership: you'll define processes, select tooling, work directly with engineering teams, and set the standard for how Nebius responds to vulnerabilities.\nWhat You'll Do\nImprove and maintain automated vulnerability triaging capabilities and vulnerability data quality through data enrichment (internal and external intelligence feeds), quality metrics, AI-assisted triage, context-aware risk scoring, and vulnerability correlation/chaining.\nHands-on validation and triaging of most critical/zero-days vulnerabilities\nWork closely with vulnerability data consumers and stakeholders across the organization to meet engineering, compliance, and regulatory requirements by delivering high-quality, actionable findings and driving effective remediation.\nContribute to the development of internal platforms, including the Unified Vulnerability Management (UVM) system and the security orchestration platform, to automate core vulnerability management workflows and reduce manual effort.\nIdentify current deficiencies in patch management, drive and oversee improvements across engineering teams and business units to improve remediation efficiency and reduce organizational risk\nOwn vulnerability intake from all sources - scanners, bug bounty, threat intel feeds, and penetration tests\nPrioritize findings using risk-based frameworks (CVSS, EPSS, SSVC, asset criticality, exploitability context, business impact) and reduce false positive noise\nDrive remediation accountability across infrastructure, platform, and product engineering teams\nIdentify, track and report vulnerability management metrics, present KPIs and trends to security leadership\nCoordinate response to critical/zero-day vulnerabilities, acting as the primary point of contact across security, engineering, and operations\nDefine and maintain integration between VOC tooling and the broader security ecosystem.\nWhat We're Looking For\n5–8 years in information security with at least 3 years focused on vulnerability management or security operations\nDeep familiarity with vulnerability scanning tools and their strengths/limitations in cloud-native environments\nStrong grasp of CVE/NVD, CVSS scoring, EPSS, SSVC and how to apply them to real-world prioritization\nExperience managing vulnerabilities across IaaS/cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure, or private cloud) - experience with GPU/HPC environments is a plus\nDeep understanding of vulnerability sources limitations and corner cases for different vulnerability classes\nAble to write and review code (ability or willingness to develop in Golang) - well enough to assess exploitability, validate fixes, and build lightweight automation (e.g., variant-detection scripts, triage tooling, data pipelines for trend analysis)\nStrong grasp of common vulnerability classes at the code and infrastructure level.\nComfortable feeding well-documented vulnerability patterns into AI-assisted code review workflows and critically evaluating the output\nTrack record of working cross-functionally with engineering teams and holding stakeholders accountable to timelines without being a bottleneck\nStrong written and verbal communication - able to translate technical risk into business impact for non-security audiences\nNice to Have\nExperience building vulnerability management program from scratch\nFamiliarity with container and Kubernetes security\nExperience with supply chain security (SBOMs, dependency scanning)\nBug bounty triage experience\nPublic talks or research articles\nWhy this role at Nebius\nBuild a Platform Security Vulnerability program from scratch and get to build and lead your own team while doing it\nThe potential to evolve an in-house AI-powered vulnerability management platform into a cloud security offering for Nebius customers\nWork alongside world-class engineers on infrastructure that powers frontier AI.\nCompetitive compensation with equity upside in a Nasdaq-listed, high-growth company.\nFlexible, remote-first culture