Senior Vulnerability Management Analyst

Description

• Lead BAU vulnerability management operations, including vulnerability scanning/discovery, findings triage, remediation SLA tracking, closure follow-up and periodic reporting.


• Oversee asset coverage and inventory alignment to ensure vulnerability management activities are applied consistently across relevant technology assets.


• Drive maturity of the DAST testing programme, including onboarding of applications, scan configuration, troubleshooting, authenticated scanning, testing cadence and control improvements.


• Manage bug bounty and controlled external testing activities, including report review, severity validation, remediation coordination and lessons-learnt analysis.


• Coordinate annual and ad-hoc penetration testing engagements with internal stakeholders and external vendors, ensuring scope, timelines, deliverables, remediation tracking and closure are managed effectively.


• Oversee configuration compliance activities, including secure configuration reviews, compliance tracking, exception handling and follow-up with relevant stakeholders.


• Perform vulnerability risk assessments by considering CVSS, VPR, Asset Exposure Score, DOD/BOD, exploitability, asset criticality, internet exposure, threat intelligence, business impact and existing mitigating controls.


• Develop and apply risk prioritisation and severity re-classification approaches to ensure remediation efforts focus on the most exploitable and business-critical exposures.


• Produce vulnerability statistics and high-level analysis, including vulnerability-per-host trends, remediation progress, past-due findings, accepted risks, control gate metrics and programme-level dashboards for management reporting.


• Escalate overdue, material or high-risk vulnerabilities to relevant technology, business, risk and management stakeholders where remediation progress is not aligned with expected timelines.


• Support audit and regulatory compliance expectations, including MAS TRM and Cyber Hygiene requirements, by maintaining evidence of regular vulnerability assessment, remediation tracking and risk treatment decisions.


• Collaborate with threat intelligence and other security teams to act on relevant threat intelligence and emerging vulnerability trends affecting the technology environment.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in IT, Information Security, Vulnerability Management, Application Security or related cyber assurance functions, with experience leading BAU vulnerability management activities.


• Diploma/Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security Management or related discipline.


• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, OSCP, GPEN, GWAPT, GWEB, CEH or cloud security certifications will be an advantage.

Skills & Experience

• Strong working knowledge of vulnerability management lifecycle, including discovery, assessment, prioritisation, remediation tracking, validation and reporting.


• Experience using vulnerability management, application security testing or exposure management platforms to support enterprise security operations.


• Good understanding of risk-based prioritisation using factors such as severity, exploitability, asset exposure, business impact and compensating controls.


• Able to interpret vulnerability data, perform high-level analysis and present clear insights to both technical and management stakeholders.


• Familiar with common infrastructure, cloud, web application, API and mobile security risks, including secure configuration and application security testing concepts.


• Effective stakeholder management skills, with the ability to coordinate remediation across technology, business, vendor, risk and management teams.


• Able to guide, mentor and provide technical direction to junior team members or peers in vulnerability management activities.


• Scripting, data handling, dashboarding or automation experience will be an advantage.