Security Engineer - Vulnerability & Exposure Management
Roche · Petaling Jaya
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The Position
The Global Security Monitoring & Incident Response (MIR) team at Roche is dedicated to protecting our networks, systems, applications, and users from constantly evolving cyber threats. As a Security Engineer within the Vulnerability & Exposure Management team, you will play a critical role in identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and reducing cybersecurity risks across Roche’s global environment.
This role goes beyond reviewing scanner outputs. You will help investigate critical vulnerabilities, assess exploitability, improve security tooling and automation capabilities, and partner with stakeholders globally to strengthen Roche’s security posture.
You will join a collaborative and highly technical cybersecurity team that values innovation, curiosity, continuous learning, and proactive risk reduction.
Your Opportunity
In this role, you will:
Triage, investigate, and respond to critical vulnerabilities impacting Roche systems and applications
Evaluate and prioritize vulnerabilities identified through security tools and external programs, including bug bounty initiatives
Research emerging threats and assess exploitability against Roche’s attack surface
Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, application, and security teams to drive remediation activities
Assess company systems and web applications using automated and manual testing approaches
Engineer and enhance vulnerability scanning, detection, automation, and monitoring capabilities
Contribute to security monitoring and incident response activities within a global environment
Develop scripts, detection logic, templates, and automation workflows to improve operational efficiency
Support continuous improvement initiatives across vulnerability and exposure management processes
Who you are
You bring a strong cybersecurity foundation combined with analytical thinking, technical curiosity, and a proactive approach to solving complex security challenges.
You also bring:
Associate Degree in a relevant field or 5+ years of professional experience in information security, with demonstrated experience triaging, analyzing, and escalating security vulnerabilities
Strong understanding of web application, network, endpoint, and cloud security concepts, including vulnerability management or attack surface management within complex enterprise environments
Hands-on scripting or programming experience using languages such as Python, JavaScript, or Node.js, with familiarity in security tooling, detection logic, automation, or custom scripting
Experience validating vulnerabilities, assessing exploitability, and supporting security monitoring or incident response activities
Ability to communicate technical risks effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, while balancing operational priorities and research initiatives
Passion for cybersecurity, continuous learning, and emerging security trends, with exposure to open-source security projects or modern AI-assisted engineering workflows considered advantageous
Professional fluency in English, with industry certifications related to offensive or application security (e.g., OSCP, GWAPT, OSWE) and enterprise cloud security experience viewed as strong assets
Who we are
A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.
Let’s build a healthier future, together.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.