Technical Product Manager - Tenable Nessus
First seen by Alion on Nov 3, 2026.
Role summary:
The role sits in CSAT Engineering, which manages third-party and in-house application security and scanning tools. The Technical Product Manager supports the IT Service Owner as delegate and manages the infrastructure side of the service. The role covers roadmap and strategy, evergreening and vulnerability management with the SRE team, and compliance with bank controls (change/release management, logging, monitoring, scanning). It also covers developer experience and documentation, and ownership of all Nessus agent packaging and installs across the estate.
Mandatory requirements:
Candidates must have worked on design, development, migration and integration of Tenable Nessus. Please state clearly in the resume where they did each.
- Tenable Nessus: Strong, expert-level knowledge, both SaaS and on-prem, in solution design and operations.
- Tenable.sc (Security Center).
- Tenable.io / Tenable Vulnerability Management.
- Vulnerability Assessment lifecycle.
- Nessus architecture.
- Nessus deployment: scanners and Nessus Manager.
- Nessus Agent lifecycle management: packaging, testing, deployment, upgrades, compatibility, provisioning and troubleshooting offline agents. Agent deployment tools such as SCCM/MECM, Intune, Tanium, BigFix or Ansible are a plus.
- Plugin lifecycle management: updates, testing and rollout.
- Security Operations (SecOps) tools: Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, QRadar or Elastic.
- Infrastructure security: RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, sudo, SSH, Linux hardening.
Good to have:
- Risk-based vulnerability prioritisation, CVSS, false-positive analysis, remediation tracking, patch management.
- Windows security: Active Directory, Group Policy.
- Cloud security basics (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- ITIL (incident, problem, change and release management), service ownership.
- Compliance and audit exposure (ISO 27001, NIST CSF, CIS Controls).
- DevSecOps awareness (SAST, DAST, SCA, CI/CD).
- Experience in a heavily regulated industry (BFSI preferred) and in remote or hybrid global teams.
Screening points: Please confirm for each candidate:
- Total and relevant (Nessus) experience, with project details.
- Their role in Nessus design, development, migration and integration.
- Largest agent estate managed (number of endpoints).
- Current CTC, expected CTC, notice period and whether it is negotiable.
- Current and preferred location.
Skills
Vulnerability Assessment, Linux, Splunk, Security Operations Center, Nessus