Vulnerability Management Specialist

Vulnerability Management Specialist

Fully Remote

£600p/d Umbrella Only

Fantastic new contract opportunity for an experienced Vulnerability Management Specialist with fast growing specialist Fintech business. My client are looking for a 6 month term contractor to come in and support their engineering teams, where your primary responsibility will be assessing open vulnerabilities, prioritising our remediation efforts, driving remediation action plans and closing vulnerability risks.

Main responsibilities:

• Assessing and triaging open vulnerabilities, whilst prioritising remediation efforts based on threat intelligence, risk and business context.
• Collaborating with engineering teams to manage/drive the remediation of vulnerability risks and providing guidance and support on mitigation strategies and compensating controls, where necessary.
• Manipulating data, extracting insights and providing vulnerability management status reports for key stakeholders.
• Reviewing and enhancing vulnerability management processes and technologies.

Skills Required:

• Have proven extensive experience in vulnerability triage/management role.
• Have working knowledge and experience of OWASP, MITRE, CVSS, CWE and other standards/frameworks/scoring systems relevant to vulnerability management.
• Have working knowledge and experience of cloud (AWS) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Have good knowledge and understanding of application security technologies.
• Are proficient and experienced with vulnerability scanning tools.
• Have good understanding and practical experience of Cyber Security Frameworks and standards, e.g. NIST CSF, ISO27001:2022.
• Have strong understanding of information security concepts, technologies and best practices.
• Are an excellent problem-solving, analytical and communication skills.
• Have previous experience of working within a regulated environment, financial services industry (desirable).

For any further queries regarding the role, please contact Danny Palmer at