Vulnerability Management (Qualys Security Analyst) Job Openings Vulnerability Management (Qualys Security Analyst)
About the job Vulnerability Management (Qualys Security Analyst) Primary Duties and 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 vulnerabilities.
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 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).
Familiarity with Windows and Linux operating systems, and basic administration.
Knowledge of 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 environment.
Experience in setting up scanning profiles, conducting routine scans of our environment, overseeing 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, overseeing remediation efforts, etc.
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