About Kinaxis

Are you looking to join an innovative, market-leading company where you can truly elevate your career? At Kinaxis we are serious about culture, we are serious about technology, we are serious about customers, and we are serious about not taking ourselves too seriously. If you are looking to be part of an incredible growth story, then we might just be the place for you

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, 6 global office and a best-in-class HQ in Ottawa, Canada. As winners of several Top Employer awards globally, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

Kinaxis is a global leader in contemporary supply chain orchestration, powering complex global supply chains, and supporting the people who manage them. Our powerful, AI infused platform provides full transparency and visibility across end-to-end supply chains, enabling our customers to make faster, better decisions. We are trusted by renowned global brands to provide the agility and predictability needed to navigate today’s volatility and disruption. With more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries, we are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

Location

Ottawa and Toronto, CA - Hybrid

Other Canadian locations - Remote

About the role

The Vulnerability Management Specialist, as a proficient-level qualified with well-defined experience, will be primarily responsible for the enterprise Vulnerability Management program, ensuring that vulnerabilities across Kinaxis assets are discovered, prioritized by risk and remediated in a timely manner,



as part of a global Security team that is responsible for all security-related handling for Kinaxis Corporate and Kinaxis RapidResponse Software-as-a-Service.

The incumbent will administer and continuously tune the vulnerability management platform, translate threat intelligence and vendor advisories into actionable, risk-based priorities, and drive remediation through strong coordination and transparent guidance. This person will interface with cross functional teams within Kinaxis such as Corporate IT, SaaS Operations, Cloud Platform Engineering, Product Development, Business Systems teams, Customer Success, and Technology partners to reduce the organization’s attack surface and maintain company-wide information security.

Vacancy Status

This is an existing job vacancy

What you will do

Vulnerability Management Platform and Scanning

- Administer, configure and continuously tune the enterprise vulnerability management platform (scanners, agents, credentials, scan policies, asset tagging and integrations) to ensure complete and accurate coverage of assets across Kinaxis Corporate and SaaS environments.
- Measure and close asset coverage gaps by reconciling the platform against authoritative asset sources (CMDB, cloud inventories, EDR) and onboarding new environments as they are introduced.
- Automate and maintain scheduled vulnerability scans,



and run on-demand scans in response to threat intelligence, zero-day disclosures or vendor security advisories.
- Manage the relationship with the vulnerability management platform vendor, holding regular check-ins, conducting periodic platform health checks, tracking support cases and evaluating new capabilities.

Threat Intelligence and Risk-Based Prioritization

- Review threat intelligence feeds and vendor advisories for applicability, and triage the impact of newly disclosed vulnerabilities on Kinaxis systems and services.
- Apply risk-based vulnerability management to prioritize remediation using exploitability (e.g., CISA KEV, EPSS), CVSS severity, asset criticality, exposure and business context.

Remediation Coordination and Risk Mitigation

- Coordinate vulnerability remediation with remediation teams (Corporate IT, Cloud Services and Product teams), tracking tickets through to closure against defined SLAs.
- Provide clear and concise remediation guidance, including patches, configuration changes, compensating controls and other risk mitigation options, tailored to each remediation team.
- Set up and lead regular meetings with remediation teams to review and discuss vulnerability backlogs, overdue items, blockers and risk exceptions.
- Coordinate with other members of the Security team to mitigate risks resulting from vulnerabilities, including the response to critical and actively exploited vulnerabilities.

Reporting, Documentation and Continuous Improvement

- Produce quarterly vulnerability management reports showing key metrics, including asset coverage, prioritized tickets, vulnerability remediation velocity, vul

📌 Vulnerability Management Specialist (Toronto)
🏢 Kinaxis
📍 Toronto