This role is designed for a lead cybersecurity engineer with approximately 8+ years of experience in vulnerability management, exposure management, offensive security, application security, and security automation. The position serves as a technical lead and subject-matter expert for the vulnerability management function, helping shape the roadmap and owning delivery of maturity initiatives from approach through measurable outcomes. The Lead Security Engineer will partner with cybersecurity, infrastructure, application, and platform teams to evolve vulnerability management into a proactive, risk-based program. The role brings depth in areas such as risk-based prioritization, automation and AI-assisted triage, application security, vulnerability disclosure, and offensive security, and mentors engineers to scale proven practices.

Duties & Responsibilities · Serve as technical lead and subject-matter expert for vulnerability management, advising on program direction, tooling, and prioritization across Staples environments.



· Own end-to-end delivery of vulnerability management maturity projects, from defining the approach and success measures through implementation, adoption, and reporting. · Design and build automation and AI-assisted workflows for triage, enrichment, ticketing, and reporting that reduce manual effort and improve time to remediation. · Build and mature offensive security capabilities, including internal penetration testing, segmentation testing, purple-team exercises, and vulnerability disclosure and bug bounty programs. · Evaluate and onboard current security capabilities, running proofs of concept and recommending adopt, extend, or retire decisions. · Define runbooks, quality standards, and handoff practices for operational work, and coach engineers as proven processes are scaled across teams. · Support PCI DSS, SOC 2, customer audit requests, and other compliance activities by providing accurate vulnerability evidence and remediation status. · Report p

📌 Lead Security Engineer – Vulnerability Management (Chennai)
🏢 Staples India
📍 Chennai