Principal - Vulnerability Remediation

Charlotte, NC

Full time

R2601144

Ally and Your Career

Ally Financial only succeeds when its people do - and that’s more than some cliché people put on job postings. We love this stuff! We see our people as, well, people - with interests, families, friends, dreams, and causes that are all important to them. Our focus is on the health and safety of our teammates as well as work-life balance and diversity and inclusion. From generous benefits to a variety of employee resource groups, we strive to build paths that encourage employees to stretch themselves professionally. We want to help you grow, develop, and learn new things. You’re constantly evolving, so shouldn’t your opportunities be, too?

Work Schedule : Ally designates roles as (1) fully on-site, (2) hybrid, or (3) fully remote. Hybrid roles are generally expected to be in the office a certain number of days per week as indicated by your manager. Your hiring manager will discuss this role's specific work requirements with you during the hiring process. All work requirements are subject to change at any time based on leader discretion and/or business need.

The Opportunity

The Principal of Cyber Security position at Ally is responsible for analyzing and reporting on security vulnerabilities across the enterprise, coordinating remediation activities with application and infrastructure teams, assessing the threat profile and business risk of identified findings, and providing clear reporting to senior management. This role serves as a key individual contributor to the organization’s Vulnerability Management program by transforming large volumes of technical data into actionable insights that improve security posture and support timely risk reduction. The position reports to the Director of Vulnerability Management and requires strong collaboration across cybersecurity, technology, and operations team.

At this time, Ally will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

The Work Itself

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze vulnerability scan results and related security data to identify trends, prioritize findings, and support risk-based remediation decisions.

• Coordinate with application, infrastructure, cloud, and platform teams to ensure vulnerabilities are remediated within established service level expectations.

• Assess the threat profile, exploitability, and potential business impact of identified vulnerabilities to help guide remediation prioritization.

• Perform and document asset, application, and vulnerability criticality assessments in response to requests from the Cyber Threat Intelligence team, incorporating threat context, business impact, exposure, and operational relevance into prioritization recommendations.

• Prepare and deliver recurring and ad hoc reporting for senior management, including vulnerability metrics, remediation performance, and emerging risk themes.

• Validate and track remediation activities, exceptions, and aging findings to ensure accurate status reporting and accountability.

• Partner with stakeholders across cybersecurity, engineering, and operations to improve vulnerability management processes, data quality, and reporting effectiveness.

• Support vulnerability governance activities by maintaining documentation, reporting standards, and operational procedures.

• Leverage vulnerability management and workflow platforms to monitor findings, assign actions, and measure remediation progress.

The Qualifications We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of relevant experience in vulnerability management, cybersecurity operations, security analytics, or a related information security discipline.

• 3+ years experience working with vulnerability management and workflow tools such as Qualys, ServiceNow, and cloud security or scanning technologies in environments including AWS.

• Experience supporting criticality assessments for assets, applications, or vulnerabilities using threat intelligence inputs, business context, exposure factors, and risk-based prioritization methods.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to work with large data sets, interpret technical findings, and translate them into clear business and risk insights.

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively across technical and non-technical teams to drive remediation outcomes.

• Working knowledge of vulnerability scoring, remediation prioritization, patching concepts, and common infrastructure, application, and cloud security risks.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present findings and trends to senior leadership.

Highly Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of threat intelligence, exploitability analysis, and risk-based vulnerability management practices.

• Experience in highly regulated or complex enterprise environments.

Core Tools and Environment

This role works extensively with Qualys, ServiceNow, AWS-related scanning and cloud security technologies, and other enterprise vulnerability and remediation tracking tools used to identify, prioritize, and manage security findings.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related technology-focused field or equivalent

How We'll Have Your Back

Ally's compensation program offers market-competitive base pay and pay-for-performance incentives (bonuses) based on achieving personal and company goals. Our Total Rewards program includes industry-leading compensation and benefits plus additional incentives that are designed to meet your needs and those of your family so you can get the most out of your career and your life, including:

Time Away: Program starts at 20 paid time off days in addition to 11 paid holidays and 8 hours of volunteer time off yearly (time off days are prorated based on start date and program varies based on full or part-time status and management level).

Planning for the Future: plan for the near and long term with an industry-leading 401K retirement savings plan with matching and company contributions, student loan pay downs and 529 educational save up assistance programs, tuition reimbursement, employee stock purchase plan, and financial learning center and financial coach access.

Supporting your Health & Well-being: flexible health and insurance options including medical, dental and vision, employee, spouse and child life insurance, short- and long-term disability, pre-tax Health Savings Account with employer contributions, Healthcare FSA, critical illness, accident & hospital indemnity insurance, and a total well-being program that helps you and your family stay on track physically, socially, emotionally, and financially.

Building a Family: adoption, surrogacy and fertility assistance as well as paid parental and caregiver leave, Dependent Day Care FSA back-up child and adult/elder care days and childcare discounts.

Work-Life Integration: other benefits including Mentally Fit Employee Assistance Program, subsidized and discounted Weight Watchers® program and other employee discount programs.

Other Compensations: depending on the role for which you are considered, you may be eligible for travel allowances, relocation assistance, a signing bonus and/or equity.

To view more detailed information about Ally’s Total Rewards, please visit this link: https://www.ally.com/content/dam/pdf/corporate/ally-total-rewards-snapshot.pdf

Who We Are :

Ally Financial is a customer-centric, leading digital financial services company with passionate customer service and innovative financial solutions. We are relentlessly focused on "Doing it Right" and being a trusted financial-services provider to our consumer, commercial, and corporate customers. For more information, visit www.ally.com .

Ally is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy status, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic disposition or any other reason protected by law.

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if after review of the position expectations, you believe that you may need a medical accommodation to fulfill the duties of this role, please email [email protected] with details of your accommodation request.

Base Pay Range

$110,000.00 - $180,000.00

An individual's position in the range is determined by the specific role, the scope and responsibilities of the role, work experience, education, certification(s), training, and additional qualifications. We review internal pay, the competitive market, and business environment prior to extending an offer.

Incentive Compensation:

This position is eligible to participate in our annual incentive plan.

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