Senior Vulnerability Manager

UK Home Office; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Civil Service Pension

Reward Scheme

25 Days Leave

Public Holidays + Privilege Day

60% Office Time

Job summary

The UK Home Office in Sheffield/Salford is seeking a Vulnerability Management specialist to identify and triage vulnerabilities across complex IT systems. You will work within Cyber Security to drive remediation and risk reduction.

This hybrid role requires coordinating with cross-functional teams, reporting to stakeholders, and maintaining continuous monitoring to safeguard critical government digital infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Lead vulnerability identification across systems, apps and networks.
• Assess severity of findings and prioritise remediation.
• Define remediation plans with cross-functional teams.
• Produce detailed vulnerability reports for stakeholders.
• Coordinate incident management with security resolver groups.

Responsibilities

• Vulnerability Identification – Lead the process of identifying and classifying vulnerabilities.
• Risk Assessment – Evaluate scan results and classify risk.
• Remediation Planning – Propose remediation plans with stakeholders.
• Reporting – Present vulnerability assessments and remediation progress.
• Incident Management – Triage and coordinate response with security teams.
• Tool management – Manage tooling and continuous monitoring.
• Vulnerability Management Service – Onboard assets to tooling per service policies.

Skills

Vulnerability Identification

Risk Assessment

Remediation Planning

Reporting

Incident Management

Tooling

Vulnerability Management Tooling

Tools

Vulnerability Scanning Tools

Job description

Location: Sheffield | Salford (hybrid with 60% office attendance)

Salary: £49,850 plus skills allowance of up to £7,550 pending assessment

Advert close: 28th September 2026

Job summary

Cyber Security at the Home Office is at the front end of protecting one of the largest government departments and safeguarding the critical digital infrastructure. Vulnerability Management is a critical service within this operation, delivering a managed approach to proactively identifying vulnerabilities and developing effective remediation strategies.

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.

You’ll join an expert team of cyber professionals, committed to fighting cyber-attack across a complex network of systems. You’ll be aided by a supportive organisational culture, and a commitment to further your continuous development.

Main Responsibilities

Your main day to day responsibilities will be:

• Vulnerability Identification – Lead the process of identifying and classifying technical vulnerabilities in systems, applications and networks to identify security weaknesses and potential risks. Utilise vulnerability management tools/technologies to identify, assess and report on vulnerabilities.
• Risk Assessment – Analyse and evaluate the results of vulnerability scans to determine the severity and potential impact of identified vulnerabilities, categorising them based on risk to assets and operations.
• Remediation Planning – Collaborate with multiple departments, technical teams and senior stakeholders to recommend remediation plans and complex configuration changes in support of vulnerability remediation.
• Reporting – Create and present detailed reports on vulnerability assessments, remediation efforts, and overall vulnerability management performance for stakeholders, management and technical teams.
• Incident Management – Work closely with other security teams and technical resolver groups to ensure comprehensive approach to managing prioritised vulnerabilities.
• Tool management - Knowledge and understanding of approaches and tooling used to perform vulnerability assessments against large and complex infrastructure. Implementing continuous monitoring processes to identify new vulnerabilities and assess the effectiveness of remediation efforts over time.
• Vulnerability Management Service - Onboard assets into the appropriate vulnerability management tooling in line with the Threat and Vulnerability Management Service. Ensure that all vulnerability management activities align with service polices, standards and procedures.

You’ll have a demonstrable passion for Vulnerability Management, with the following skills or strong experience in:

• Driving improvements in vulnerability management processes and practices, working with security and technology teams to deliver technical and operational change.
• Conducting vulnerability assessments using recognised frameworks, understanding severity and contextualising risk within an organisational environment to support effective prioritisation.
• Implementing and operating technical vulnerability management tooling, ensuring effective deployment, maintenance and use of data to identify, analyse and communicate security risk.
• Managing security risk, working collaboratively with stakeholders to drive remediation and achieving good security outcomes aligned to organisational prioritises and risk appetite.
• Communicating complex technical vulnerability risk clearly and effectively, producing high quality written and verbal reports tailored to technical specialists and non-technical senior stakeholders.
• Coordinating effective incident response activities in fast-paced environments, engaging with cross-functional teams to triage, contain and remediate security incidents.

Why work for us...

Find out more information at: Benefits - Home Office Careers, but some of the primary ones are:

• A Civil Service Pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%.
• In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
• 8 days of public holidays, plus 1 additional privilege day.
• Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.