Role Description The Manager of Information Security—Cyber Threat Exposure Management plays a critical role in solving complex challenges and building the infrastructure that powers what’s next for our customers and our world. In this role, you won’t just manage vulnerabilities—you’ll shape how Lumen identifies, prioritizes, and reduces cyber risk across a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Your work directly enables innovation by ensuring our foundation is secure, resilient, and ready to scale. Main Responsibilities - Mature vulnerability and asset management programs, improve data quality, advance risk-based remediation, and collaborate across security and technology teams to reduce enterprise exposure. - Own the strategy, execution, and continuous maturity of the enterprise vulnerability management program, driving measurable reduction of cyber risk. - Implement and refine risk-based prioritization using threat intelligence, exploitability, asset criticality, exposure, and business impact to focus remediation on the highest-risk vulnerabilities. - Ensure comprehensive visibility across internal, cloud, and externally exposed assets through effective asset discovery, inventory governance, ownership assignment, and data quality management. - Oversee vulnerability management and asset discovery platforms, supporting tool optimization, process automation, and consistent operational workflows. - Drive remediation accountability by partnering with Security, IT, Cloud, Engineering, and business stakeholders to address critical vulnerabilities, visibility gaps, and risk exceptions. - Define, monitor, and report key program metrics, including vulnerability backlog, mean time to remediate, SLA compliance, exception trends, asset coverage, and external exposure trends. - Deliver clear executive-level reporting that translates technical findings into business risk, remediation priorities, and measurable program outcomes. - Support audit, regulatory, and compliance requirements by maintaining evidence, reporting, and processes aligned to applicable security frameworks and control expectations. - Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing team while fostering accountability, collaboration, operational excellence, and continuous improvement. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in information security, vulnerability management, security risk assessment, application security, system security, network security, or a related discipline. - Experience leading, coaching, or managing technical personnel in a security, infrastructure, cloud, or technology operations environment. - Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience. - Broad technical knowledge of current and emerging technologies used within enterprise infrastructure, cloud environments, applications, and security operations. - Experience communicating technical security risk to technical and non-technical audiences, including management and cross-functional stakeholders. - Applicable professional or technical certifications should be in place, or the candidate must be willing to pursue relevant certification. Preferred Qualifications - Professional or technical certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GISEC, Security+, cloud security certifications, or related security credentials. - Experience with modern vulnerability management, asset discovery, cyber asset attack surface management, cloud security posture management, or external attack surface management platforms. - Demonstrated understanding of risk-based vulnerability prioritization, remediation governance, exception management, and vulnerability lifecycle management. - Knowledge of information security frameworks, control standards, and regulatory obligations, including ISO 27001/27002, NIST, SOX, PCI, FISMA, HIPAA, NACHA, and SSAE-16. - Experience supporting audit readiness, evidence collection, control validation, and security reporting requirements. - Knowledge of project management practices and experience driving cross-functional initiatives through influence, accountability, and measurable outcomes. - Experience working in large enterprise environments, including complex data center, network, cloud, and hybrid technology ecosystems. - Strong ability to translate complex technical findings into clear executive-level communication, business risk context, and actionable recommendations. Compensation This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors. - $105,786 - $141,047 in these states: AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, WI, WV, WY - $111,074 - $148,099 in these states: CO, HI, MI, MN, NC, NH, NV, OR, RI - $116,364 - $155,152 in these states: AK, CA, CT, DC, DE, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, TX, VA, WA Benefits - Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing.