Strategic Cyber Threat & Vulnerability Analyst

Pertemps Thames Water; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary up to £65,000

26 days leave + bank holidays

Pension scheme

Job summary

Thames Water is seeking a Cyber Threat & Vulnerability Analyst to strengthen our security posture across IT and OT environments. You’ll identify, assess, and reduce cyber risk, driving timely remediation and clear reporting.

You’ll work with technical and business teams in a hybrid role, balancing hands-on vulnerability work with stakeholder communication and security governance. Join a large infrastructure leader protecting essential services.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting vulnerability management, patching, or cyber risk reduction in a complex environment.
• Understanding of cyber security concepts including vulnerability management and threat assessment approaches.
• Ability to work with technical teams to support remediation of security issues.
• Experience or understanding of security tooling such as vulnerability scanners or similar technologies.
• Ability to communicate technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Awareness of how security risks are managed across different technology environments (cloud, servers, end-user devices, OT).
• Relevant cyber security qualification or industry certification such as CISSP, CISM, or CCSP.

Responsibilities

• Support end-to-end vulnerability management across IT and OT environments.
• Help shape and improve threat and vulnerability management processes, frameworks, and ways of working.
• Work with technical and business teams to prioritise and remediate vulnerabilities based on risk.
• Investigate new vulnerabilities and recommend clear, practical mitigation actions.
• Support integration of vulnerability scanning tools into existing systems and processes.
• Build and maintain dashboards that show cyber risk, trends, and remediation progress in a clear way.
• Contribute to threat assessments and support proactive threat hunting activities.
• Help ensure alignment with standards such as GDPR, PCI DSS, NIS Regulations, and ISO 27001.
• Monitor vulnerability management tools and processes, identifying ways to improve effectiveness and reduce risk.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Cyber risk reduction

Technical liaison

Security communications

Security tooling

Education

CISSP

CISM

CCSP

Tools

Vulnerability scanners

Job description

Thames Water is seeking a Cyber Threat & Vulnerability Analyst to strengthen our security posture across IT and OT environments. You’ll identify, assess, and reduce cyber risk, driving timely remediation and clear reporting.

You’ll work with technical and business teams in a hybrid role, balancing hands-on vulnerability work with stakeholder communication and security governance. Join a large infrastructure leader protecting essential services.