Cybersecurity Analyst

Position: Vulnerability Management Analyst
Location: Remote
Duration: Contract
Job ID: SYFJP00001328

Job Overview:

The Security Analyst III, specializing in Vulnerability Management, will support enterprise vulnerability operations by validating findings, assessing risks, coordinating remediation, and driving the timely reduction of security exposure across various environments, including infrastructure, cloud, container, application, endpoint, and externally facing systems. This role requires strong analytical judgment, operational follow-through, and the ability to translate large volumes of vulnerability data into actionable guidance for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Validate and triage vulnerability findings from internal and external scans, attack surface management sources, and threat intelligence.
• Assess severity, exploitability, exposure, business impact, compensating controls, and residual risk to support risk-based prioritization across multiple environments.
• Engage technology stakeholders and remediation owners throughout the vulnerability lifecycle, from identification to closure validation and risk-based escalation.
• Support rapid response for vulnerability threat intelligence escalations and critical patching events.
• Work with vulnerability management tools to validate data, investigate discrepancies, confirm asset context, and compress operational response times.
• Identify recurring risk patterns, workflow friction, and data quality issues, and recommend improvements to processes, tooling, automation, and reporting.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of demonstrated experience in vulnerability management in enterprise-class environments.
• Experience with vulnerability management across cloud and container environments and supporting enterprise tools.
• Strong understanding of vulnerability management lifecycle activities, including identification, validation, prioritization, remediation coordination, and closure verification.
• Experience working with large datasets, vulnerability reports, asset information, and operational metrics to identify trends and actionable insights.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate technical findings into clear remediation guidance and risk summaries.
• Working knowledge of common enterprise technology environments, including servers, endpoints, network infrastructure, cloud platforms, and containerized workloads.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in financial services, regulated environments, or organizations with formal technology risk, audit, and compliance requirements (e.g., PCI DSS, FFIEC).
• Scripting, automation, and data analysis experience using tools or languages such as Python, PowerShell, VBA, Power Query, SQL, or R.
• Experience with business intelligence and reporting tools such as Power BI and Excel for validating reports and analyzing trends.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled productivity or analysis tools, coding assistants, and prompt-based workflows.
• Relevant security or technology certifications such as Security+, CySA+, CISSP, or cloud security certifications.

Tools and Environment (Preferred):

• Vulnerability management and scanning platforms such as Qualys, Wiz, or comparable tools.
• External attack surface management tools and exposure monitoring platforms.
• Cloud and container environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and container image lifecycle management.

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Pay Range: $100- $110

The specific compensation for this position will be determined by several factors, including the scope, complexity, and location of the role, as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials, and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment. Our full-time consultants have access to benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and 401K contributions, as well as PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by applicable state or localities where you reside or work.

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