Security Qualys Analyst

Role Title: Security Qualys Analyst

Location: Havant/Reading, UK (Hybrid -2 days per week)

Employment Type: Contract

Job Description:

Vulnerability Management

• Maintaining vulnerability scanning platforms to identify and analyse vulnerabilities
• Taking a risk-based approach to prioritise remediation efforts
• Working with support teams to remediate issues
• Building a range of reporting capabilities to inform our stakeholders on the status and progress of VM remediation efforts across engineering and up to leadership teams
• Data correlation and identifying patterns and trends, building MI which can be shared with stakeholders

Security Incident response

• Assist in the management of high priority vulnerability incidents
• Co-ordinate with support teams in order roll out mitigation of vulnerability solutions
• Monitor daily dashboards from security tooling and produce weekly reports to demonstrate progress of remediation by support teams

Qualys Patch Management

• Manage the deployment of patches and updates to end-user systems using Qualys Patch Management
• Monitor patch compliance status across all devices and ensure timely application of critical updates
• Troubleshoot and resolve patching issues, coordinating with stakeholders as necessary
• Schedule patch windows and coordinate with end-users to minimize disruption
• Ability to script and adapt any patching/fixes not within the QPM environment