About the Role

You will work closely with the Vulnerability Manager and collaborate with the CTI automation, pen-testing team, and IT security. The Vulnerability Management team identifies and prioritizes all threats and vulnerabilities in our Product environment and provides respective reports to key stakeholders. If you are passionate about Product Security and want to develop solutions that will secure our enterprise across all Harman lines of business, then we want to talk to you. The nature of this position is a technical security function, not a compliance function.

What You Will Do

• Closely collaborate with the Harman global Vulnerability Management (VM) team and ensure smooth operations.

• Drive analysis, rate, and confirm vulnerabilities reported by external researchers, and new technical vulnerabilities according to their business impact, and prioritize remediation activities.

• Develop the VM-related applications/scripts as well as provide Software Quality Assurance

• Drive peripheral application and infrastructure patching tasks on the vulnerability remediation process.

• Drive tasks and root cause analysis for incident response for critical vulnerability

• Mentor less experienced team members in tasks

What You Need

• Bachelor’s relevant technical degree; apprenticeship with minimum or 5 years of practical experience in a cyber security role.

• 3-5 years of working experience in a technical cybersecurity-related field in a corporate, military, or law enforcement environment.

• Experience in IT, embedded systems, HW testing, threat intelligence, or cyber security in general.

• Honest and professional, strong team influencer, able to proactively support team culture that fosters knowledge sharing, excellence, and collaboration.

• Able to work under pressure, participate in technical discussions, and advise on technical matters.

• Experiences in improving a vulnerability management process, incident response process handling, and/or vulnerability-scanning concepts in OT/ICS, embedded or product environment.

• Knowledge of cyber security standards, risks, threats, prevention measures, and best practices.

• Hands-on experience with programming/scripting languages, e.g. Python, bash, ruby.

• Functional understanding of SW and/or HW.

• Proficiency in Cybersecurity controls, frameworks, terminology, and concepts.

What You Need

• Bachelor’s relevant technical degree; apprenticeship with minimum or 5 years of practical experience in a cyber security role

• 3-5 years in a technical cyber security position within corporate, military, or law enforcement.

• Skilled in IT, embedded systems, hardware testing, threat intelligence, or cyber security.

• Demonstrates integrity, a strong influence in teamwork, and promotes a knowledge-sharing and excellence-driven culture.

• Able to work under pressure, participate in technical discussions, and advise on technical matters.

• Experience enhancing vulnerability management and incident response processes, especially in OT/ICS, embedded, or product contexts.

• Familiar with cyber security standards, risks, and preventative strategies.

• Proficient in programming/scripting (Python, bash, ruby), and understands software/hardware.

• Proficiency in Cybersecurity controls, frameworks, terminology, and concepts.

What is Nice to Have

• Cybersecurity experience (preferably from IT/OT or IoT/Automotive)

• Knowledge of cybersecurity standards and organizations (CC, FIPS, NIST)

• Risk management knowledge

• Active participation in conferences, consortiums, and CTFs (capture the flag)

• Publications, blogs or reports of past Cybersecurity work

• Knowledge of CSIRT or PSIRT

What Makes You Eligible

• Be willing to travel up to 5% of the time, domestic and international travel.

• Be willing to work in the Novi, MI office

What We Offer

• Access to employee discounts on world-class Harman and Samsung products (JBL, HARMAN Kardon, AKG, etc.)

• Extensive training opportunities through our own HARMAN University

• Competitive wellness benefits

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Access to HARMAN Campus Fitness Center and Cafeteria

• An inclusive and diverse work environment that fosters and encourages professional and personal development.

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