Advisory Engineer, Enterprise Product Security Incident Response Team (E-PSIRT)
Product
Farnborough, UK
Why Work at Lenovo
Description and Requirements
The Product Security Advisory Engineer within Lenovo’s Enterprise Product Security Incident Response Team (E-PSIRT) is the central operational orchestrator for vulnerability management across Lenovo’s global product portfolio. This critical role coordinates product security offices, engineering teams, and suppliers to ensure vulnerabilities are appropriately evaluated, remediated, and disclosed. Additionally, this position plays a pivotal role in supporting Lenovo’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) compliance, vulnerability reporting readiness, and regulatory response activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Vulnerability Assessment & Triage: Evaluate product security vulnerabilities, exploits, and incidents from external researchers, threat intelligence, public disclosures, and internal testing to determine severity, risk, and business impact.
- PSIRT Case Management: Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of vulnerability cases from initial intake through technical investigation, remediation progress tracking, and final closure.
- Central Operational Orchestration: Coordinate cross-functional vulnerability response efforts across internal product security offices (IDG, ISG, SSG, Motorola, CAIO), Legal, and various business groups.
- Supplier & Partner Liaison: Collaborate and negotiate with third-party upstream and downstream suppliers, technology partners, and security researchers to develop remediation plans and coordinate responsible disclosures.
- Security Advisory Development: Author, review, and publish technical security advisories communicating available fixes, workarounds, and mitigation strategies to customers.
- Cross-Functional Communication: Manage internal and customer-facing messaging to ensure accurate, consistent, and timely communication regarding critical vulnerabilities and product security issues.
- Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Compliance: Assist with CRA reporting requirements by identifying actively exploited vulnerabilities or severe incidents, preparing regulatory reports, and participating in readiness exercises.
- Threat Intelligence Monitoring: Monitor global vulnerability databases, threat feeds, and third-party notifications to proactively assess emerging risks impacting Lenovo products.
- Metrics & Continuous Improvement: Develop vulnerability management metrics, drive triage automation initiatives, and contribute to the refinement of team playbooks, SOPs, and governance documentation.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Systems Engineering, Law, or a highly related technical discipline.
- Experience: 8+ years of applied experience in cybersecurity, software engineering, product security, enterprise risk, or regulatory compliance roles in a team-lead capacity.
- Domain Expertise: Proven capability in security operations, incident response, vulnerability analysis, and/or threat intelligence.
- High-Level Communication: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills tailored for technical teams, senior leadership, and external researchers.
- Operational Flexibility: Availability to support critical cycles with occasional off-hours engagement, alongside intermittent travel for regulatory assessments and stakeholder alignment.
Preferred Requirements
- PSIRT Experience: Prior hands-on experience working within an enterprise Product Security Incident Response Team.
- External Ecosystem Engagement: Experience interacting directly with external security researchers, CERTs, regulators, and industry consortiums.
- AI Security Knowledge: Experience handling AI-related vulnerabilities and modern machine learning platform incidents.
What Lenovo Can Offer You:
At Lenovo, we invest in our people and provide a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, development, and work-life balance, including:
- Holiday purchase
- Private medical
- Income protection
- Attractive pension scheme
- Positive work life balance
- Learning and development
- Life insurance
- Lenovo and Motorola products discounts
- Lifestyle discounts
- Cycle to work
- MyGymDiscounts
- Mortgage advice and support
- Referral bonus
- Free onsite parking