Role: Qualys Administrator

Location : Kolkata/ Mumbai

Experience: 5-8 Years

Skillset:

- Qualys VMDR Administration

- Qualys Cloud Agents

- Vulnerability Management &
- Risk Prioritization

- Security Configuration Assessment (SCA)

- Vulnerability Scanning (Authenticated &

- Agent-Based)

- Asset Discovery &

- Inventory Management

- Compliance &

- Hardening Standards

- SIEM Integration (Sumo Logic / Google SecOps)

- Reporting &

- Dashboard Management

- Security Audit &

- Compliance Support

- PowerShell / Python Scripting (Preferred)

- ServiceNow / ITSM Integration

Responsibilities:

- Administer, maintain, and support the Qualys VMDR platform across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

- Manage Qualys Cloud Agent deployment, activation, health monitoring, and lifecycle management across enterprise assets.

- Perform authenticated and agent-based vulnerability assessments for servers, databases, network devices, cloud workloads, and applications.

- Schedule, execute, and monitor internal and external vulnerability scans in line with organizational security policies.

- Conduct asset discovery, inventory validation, and reconciliation between Qualys and CMDB records.

- Analyze vulnerability findings, prioritize remediation activities based on CVSS scores, exploitability, and business risk.

- Generate and distribute vulnerability, compliance, zero-day exposure,



and executive security reports to stakeholders.

- Monitor and track remediation SLAs for critical, high, medium, and low-risk vulnerabilities.

- Configure and manage vulnerability exceptions, QID exclusions, and approved risk acceptance requests.

- Perform Security Configuration Assessment (SCA) and compliance scans against organizational hardening standards.

- Validate security posture of newly provisioned servers, cloud assets, and network devices before production onboarding.

- Monitor Qualys scanners, appliances, and platform health; perform troubleshooting and operational maintenance.

- Investigate emerging threats, zero-day vulnerabilities, and security advisories to assess enterprise exposure.

- Collaborate with Infrastructure, Cloud, Network, Application, SOC, and IAM teams to drive vulnerability remediation and security improvements.

- Support security audits, compliance assessments, risk reviews, and regulatory reporting requirements.

- Develop and maintain Qualys operational runbooks, standards, dashboards, and technical documentation.

- Provide L2/L3 support for Qualys-related incidents, service requests, onboarding activities, and change implementations.

Preferred Certifications

- Qualys Certified Specialist VMDR

- Qualys Certified Vulnerability Management

- Qualys Certified Policy Compliance

- CompTIA Security+

- CEH

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