Senior Cyber Threat and Vulnerability Analyst

🚨 **For full job description and salary please follow the "Apply" link.** https://tinyurl.com/7z5yat5x 🚨

The role of Vulnerability Management is to triage vulnerabilities by relevance and criticality to the organisation. Vulnerability Management then identify mitigations for those vulnerabilities and advise on implementing them.

Your main day to day responsibilities will include supporting the creation and implementation of vulnerability assessments of enterprise assets to a predefined scope and schedule using predetermined templates and test scripts, including but not limited to:

• Application vulnerability assessments
• Infrastructure vulnerability assessments
• Triage and prioritise vulnerabilities, implement mitigating measures, and support in the life cycle of vulnerability management, providing standardised advice on ways to
• Improve control mechanisms and mitigate risk.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to manage vulnerabilities and advise on remediation activities.
• Communicate common mitigation strategies such as patching and basic configuration change (system hardening)
• Utilise new and existing sources of cyber threat intelligence to contextualise the potential risk posed by vulnerability exposure across the organisation.

🚨 What you'll bring... 🚨

As Senior Cyber Threat and Vulnerability Analyst, you’ll have:

• Experience in a related information security, cyber security, or information assurance discipline, with experience in information and/or cyber security threat and risk analysis.
• Understanding of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms and targeted cyber-attack analysis
• Knowledge of common cyber security threats, vulnerabilities, and exploitation tactics.
• Familiarity with key threat intelligence feeds and sources (e.g., NCSC, CiSP etc.) and possesses a good level. 
• Ability to analyse, assess and articulate the potential business impact associated with a specific cyber security threat, vulnerability, and exploitation tactics; and possesses knowledge or experience of applying the necessary controls required to mitigate the relevant risk.
• Functional knowledge of some / all of the following: TCP/IP protocol suite, LAN/WAN technologies, switching, routing, VoIP and Telephony technologies, firewalls and VPN, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), vulnerability assessment and patch management tools.
• Functional knowledge of some / all of the following technologies: UNIX, Linux, Apple, and Windows.
• … & more

For more detailed Job description please visit: https://tinyurl.com/7z5yat5x

🚨 Closing Date: Wednesday 15th October 2023 🚨

NB: Please note this role is based in the office two days a week in Manchester 

🚀 What we offer 🚀

Salary: National: £41,600 min - £44,512 max. This post is eligible for an additional skill allowance up to £8,300 per annum

Alongside your salary of £41,600, Home Office contributes £11,232 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. - https://tinyurl.com/t4khauds

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 26.6% and 30.3%, depending upon salary

🚨 Please find more information here - Benefits - Home Office Careers - https://careers.homeoffice.gov.uk/benefits

🚨 Video - Employee Benefits - https://tinyurl.com/ypzjre3t

📢 Please note for this role you will require a SC clearance. To meet national security vetting requirements, you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 5 years and have the right to live and work in the UK without the need for sponsorship. ⚠

💜 Some of the benefits our employees love 💜

• A Civil Service pension with employer contribution rates of between 26.6% and 30.3%, depending upon salary.
• Season ticket loans and rental deposit loans
• Cycle to work and payroll giving
• Employee discounts - including a huge number of retailers (via the Edenred platform), Microsoft Home Use programme and gym membership
• A variety of staff recognition schemes including thank you vouchers
• Health and wellbeing initiatives including monthly mindfulness sessions
• Staff support networks
• Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid
• Maternity and adoption support leave (paternity leave) of 2 weeks full pay
• Up to 5 days paid leave for volunteering
• Study leave and support for studying for a qualification or other accredited development relevant to your role

**For full job description and salary please follow the "Apply" link.** https://tinyurl.com/7z5yat5x

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