Overview

Vulnerability Management (Qualys Security Analyst) — Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Responsibilities

- Work with customers to coordinate, conduct, and tune network and system vulnerability scans prior to deployment and when those systems are modified within pre-production and production environments
- Responsible for understanding, reviewing, and interpreting assessment and scanning results, reducing false positive findings, and acting as a trusted security advisor to the client
- Learn and adapt to client’s culture, security strategies, security goals, security objectives, and security capabilities
- Identify client’s organizational position and posture against emerging and zero day threats
- Maintain knowledge of outstanding vulnerability management issues as it pertains to the Client’s Vulnerability Management Service and communicate updates to Client as appropriate
- Present Vulnerability Assessment Scanning and guidance, False Positive Validation, Compliance Scanning and, scan profile and policy creation
- Provide system administrators, system owners, and IT support staff with effective vulnerability mitigation strategies, meaningful vulnerability metrics, security controls and/or corrective actions for mitigating technical and business risk
- Develop and report enterprise-level metrics for vulnerabilities and remediation progress
- Understand, demonstrate,



and educate stakeholders on the real-world impact of threats and vulnerability exploitation in a given environment
- Manage multiple customer requests, assessments, and meet customer expectations within established service levels

Qualifications

- Background in security threat analysis – ability to determine risk level of identified threats and necessary urgency in remediation
- Possess strong technical understanding of common network and system vulnerabilities
- Understanding of networking principles (OSI Model, routing, TCP/IP)
- Windows and Linux operating systems, and basic administration
- Best practices in common security technologies
- Problem solving skills and ability to work under pressure in a rapid paced, customer facing 24/7 production environment
- Experience working with cross-business and cross-functional teams in a geographically distributed setting
- Setting up scanning profiles, conducting routine scans of our environment, oversee remediation efforts, etc.
- Willingness to share on-call responsibilities, work non-standard hours, and travel when required
- Willingness to accept direction, support leadership vision, and to serve as a point of contact directly supporting vulnerability assessments, system owners, and executives
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Must Have Skills

- Minimum 2 years of experience with Qualys
- Experienced in setting up scanning profiles, conducting routine scans of security environment, oversee remediation efforts, etc.

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📌 Vulnerability Management (Qualys Security Analyst) (Australia)
🏢 Pyramid Global Technologies
📍 Australia