Vulnerability Management Analyst Minerva Cyber Technologies SMARTER CYBER

Minerva Cyber Tech; Columbia (MD); On-site; USD 85,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Minerva Cyber Technologies is seeking a Vulnerability Management Analyst to help organizations understand and reduce technical exposure. You will coordinate authorized vulnerability scanning, validate findings, and prioritize remediation using exploitability, asset criticality, and operational context.

Join a team focused on securing critical infrastructure through hands-on vulnerability assessment, cross-functional collaboration, and guided remediation efforts at client sites.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with vulnerability scanning, analysis, and remediation tracking.
• Understanding of networks, operating systems, applications, and common weaknesses (CVEs and misconfigurations).
• Ability to assess scanner output critically and communicate corrective actions.
• Experience respecting scan authorization, operational limits, and change management processes.
• Ability to travel to client sites as needed.

Responsibilities

• Maintain vulnerability scan scope, asset coverage, schedules, credentials, and data quality checks.
• Validate findings and separate false positives, configuration gaps, and exploitable weaknesses.
• Prioritize remediation using exposure, threat intelligence, compensating controls, and business impact.
• Coordinate fixes, exceptions, retesting, and closure evidence with accountable owners.
• Report aging findings, coverage gaps, remediation progress, and recurring root causes.

Skills

Vulnerability scanning

Vulnerability analysis

Remediation tracking

Network understanding

OWASP/CWE awareness

Change management

Travel to client sites

Tools

Tenable

Qualys

Rapid7

Cloud exposure management tools

Job description

Vulnerability Management Analyst

Minerva Cyber Technologies is seeking a Vulnerability Management Analyst to help organizations understand and reduce technical exposure. You will coordinate authorized vulnerability scanning, validate findings, and prioritize remediation using exploitability, asset criticality, and operational context.

What You Will Do

• Maintain vulnerability scan scope, asset coverage, schedules, credentials, and data quality checks.
• Validate findings and separate false positives, configuration gaps, and exploitable weaknesses.
• Prioritize remediation using exposure, threat intelligence, compensating controls, and business impact.
• Coordinate fixes, exceptions, retesting, and closure evidence with accountable owners.
• Report aging findings, coverage gaps, remediation progress, and recurring root causes.

Required Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with vulnerability scanning, vulnerability analysis, and remediation tracking.
• Understanding of networks, operating systems, applications, and common security weaknesses (CVEs and misconfigurations).
• Ability to assess scanner output critically and communicate practical corrective actions.
• Experience respecting scan authorization, operational limits, and change management processes.
• Ability to travel to client sites as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7, cloud exposure management tools, or equivalent platforms.
• Security assessment, scripting, reporting, or relevant security certification experience.

Why Join Minerva

• Work on meaningful missions tied to critical infrastructure resilience and cybersecurity.
• Join a team with deep hands-on cyber and national security experience.
• Help build and shape Minerva’s growing OT and critical infrastructure practice.
• Contribute to practical, outcomes-driven work rather than checkbox consulting.