Digital Risk & Vulnerability Management Specialist (m/f/d)

102933 | IT & Tech Engineering | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Services | Full-Time | Permanent

130 years of trust, time to shape what's next. Allianz Group is one of the world's leading insurers and asset managers - built on over a century of stability, expertise, and financial strength. Allianz Services is where that legacy meets the future. 8,200+ people. Eight countries. Three continents. We deliver specialized services to clients within Allianz Group, powered by AI, advanced analytics, and a mindset that refuses to stand still. From core insurance operations to engineering and consulting services, we reimagine how insurance works. What truly sets us apart are our people and the trusted partnerships we build, anchored in our values of expertise, integrity, and empowerment. We don't support the business. We shape it.

Role overview

Allianz is seeking a hands-on and detail-oriented Attack Surface Management (ASM) Expert to support the continuous discovery, monitoring, and reduction of Allianz’s risk exposure. In this role, you will be responsible for identifying assets, detecting vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, and ensuring risks are addressed before they can be exploited. You will work closely with IT, security operations, and architecture teams to maintain visibility across the global environment and proactively reduce Allianz’s attack surface. This role is essential in strengthening our preventive cyber defense and enabling secure business innovation.

What you do:

Allianz is seeking a hands-on and detail-oriented Attack Surface Management (ASM) Expert to support the continuous discovery, monitoring, and reduction of Allianz’s risk exposure. In this role, you will be responsible for identifying assets, detecting vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, and ensuring risks are addressed before they can be exploited. You will work closely with IT, security operations, and architecture teams to maintain visibility across the global environment and proactively reduce Allianz’s attack surface. This role is essential in strengthening our preventive cyber defense and enabling secure business innovation.

What you bring:

• Higher education degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Attack Surface Management Expertise: Proven hands-on experience in identifying, classifying, and managing external digital assets. Skilled in using ASM platforms (e.g., CyCognito, Palo Alto Cortex Xpanse, Rapid7, or similar) to detect unknown assets, misconfigurations, and exposure risks.
• Technical and Analytical Skills: Solid understanding of internet protocols, DNS, SSL/TLS, cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) and web application technologies. Strong ability to analyse external exposure data, correlate with threat intelligence, and recommend practical remediation actions.
• Collaboration and Communication: Ability to collaborate with IT operations, DevOps, vulnerability management, and SOC teams to support risk reduction. Effective communicator with the ability to document findings, articulate risk impact, and support mitigation efforts in a clear, actionable manner
• We highly welcome candidates with a genuine interest and affinity for Information Technology (IT) and Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), as these attributes are considered valuable assets to our team.

What we offer:

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location)
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.

About Allianz 

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges is what makes us a unique employer.
We are united by a shared commitment: to put our customers first and at the center of everything we do. Their needs inspire our thinking and guide our actions.
Together, we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and confident to explore, grow and shape a better future – for our customers and for the world around us. At Allianz, we stand for unity: we believe that a united world is a more prosperous world, and we are dedicated to consistently advocating for equal opportunities for all. The foundation for this is our inclusive workplace, where people and performance both matter, and where integrity, fairness, inclusion and trust are at the heart of our culture.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural Internal background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability or sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

Join us. Let's care for tomorrow.