Lead Cyber Security Analyst - Vulnerability Management

Scottish Government; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Social Security Scotland is seeking an experienced Cyber Security Lead – Vulnerability Management to headline the delivery and continuous improvement of vulnerability management services within the Digital Risk & Security function. You will lead a small security team and work across infrastructure, cloud, and applications to manage vulnerabilities and risk.

You will drive discovery, triage, prioritisation, remediation governance, and reporting, ensuring timely risk-based actions and strong

Qualifications

• Experience leading vulnerability management programs.
• Strong knowledge of threat and risk management practices.
• Ability to engage technical and business stakeholders to drive remediation.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery and continuous improvement of Vulnerability Management services.
• Drive identification, assessment, prioritisation, and remediation of vulnerabilities across a cloud-first estate.
• Develop and implement vulnerability metrics, reporting and governance.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Threat & risk management

Security technologies

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Cyber Security Lead – Vulnerability Management to join the Digital Risk & Security branch within Digital Delivery & Change. This role is responsible for leading the delivery and continuous improvement of Vulnerability Management services, helping to protect Social Security Scotland’s digital services, systems, and sensitive information from emerging cyber threats.

As a technical lead within the Security Operations function, you will lead a small team of specialist security professionals and provide leadership and expertise across the organisation’s vulnerability and exposure management capabilities. Working closely with infrastructure, application, cloud, and security teams, you will drive the identification, assessment, prioritisation, and remediation of vulnerabilities, ensuring that cyber risks are effectively managed and reduced across a complex, cloud-first technology estate.

You will lead the operational delivery and development of key Vulnerability Management services, including:

• Vulnerability and Exposure Discovery
• Vulnerability Triage, Risk Assessment and Reporting
• Risk-Based Vulnerability Prioritisation
• Security Configuration and Hardening Assurance
• Patch and Remediation Governance
• Asset Discovery and Attack Surface Management
• Cloud Security and Vulnerability Monitoring
• Vulnerability Metrics, Reporting, and Continuous Improvement
• Threat-Informed Risk Assessment and Remediation Planning

The role requires strong technical knowledge of vulnerability management practices, threat and risk management, and security technologies, combined with the ability to engage effectively with technical and business stakeholders. You will provide expert advice, support the development of team capability, and drive improvements to processes and tooling to ensure vulnerabilities are identified and remediated in a timely and risk-based manner.

The Vulnerability Management Lead is responsible for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and information systems used by government and Partners Across Government.

• Performs security risk, vulnerability assessments, and business impact analysis for complex information systems or risk-based projects.
• Investigates security breaches in accordance with established procedures and recommends required actions and supports / follows up to ensure these are implemented.
• Specifies requirements for environment, data, resources and tools. Interprets, executes and documents complex test scripts using agreed methods and standards.
• Contributes to the development of cyber security policy, standards and guidelines appropriate to business, technology and legal requirements and in accordance with best professional and industry practice.
• Understands “voice of the customer” and develops mechanisms to proactively sense adoption and usage patterns of consumer technologies by end users so that policy can align with need.