Remote Vulnerability Risk Analyst (Contract)

PTR Global; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 138,000 - 152,000; Part time

Job summary

PTR Global is seeking a Vulnerability Management Analyst to validate findings, assess risk, coordinate remediation, and reduce exposure across infrastructure, cloud, container, application, and endpoints. The role requires strong analytical judgment and the ability to translate vulnerability data into actionable guidance for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

This contract position emphasizes lifecycle management from identification to closure, collaboration with remediation owners, and

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.

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.

Skills

Vulnerability management

Cloud & container environments

Data-driven insights

Communication skills

Tools

Qualys

Wiz

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Kubernetes

Job description

PTR Global is seeking a Vulnerability Management Analyst to validate findings, assess risk, coordinate remediation, and reduce exposure across infrastructure, cloud, container, application, and endpoints. The role requires strong analytical judgment and the ability to translate vulnerability data into actionable guidance for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

This contract position emphasizes lifecycle management from identification to closure, collaboration with remediation owners, and