Lead Cyber Security Analyst - Vulnerability Management

Location: Glasgow, United Kingdom; Hybrid

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Cyber Security Lead – Vulnerability Management to join the Digital Risk & Security branch within Digital Delivery & Change. This role is responsible for leading the delivery and continuous improvement of Vulnerability Management services, helping to protect Social Security Scotland’s digital services, systems, and sensitive information from emerging cyber threats.

As a technical lead within the Security Operations function, you will lead a small team of specialist security professionals and provide leadership and expertise across the organisation’s vulnerability and exposure management capabilities. Working closely with infrastructure, application, cloud, and security teams, you will drive the identification, assessment, prioritisation, and remediation of vulnerabilities, ensuring that cyber risks are effectively managed and reduced across a complex, cloud-first technology estate.

You will lead the operational delivery and development of key Vulnerability Management services, including:

• Vulnerability and Exposure Discovery
• Vulnerability Triage, Risk Assessment and Reporting
• Risk-Based Vulnerability Prioritisation
• Security Configuration and Hardening Assurance
• Patch and Remediation Governance
• Asset Discovery and Attack Surface Management
• Cloud Security and Vulnerability Monitoring
• Vulnerability Metrics, Reporting, and Continuous Improvement
• Threat-Informed Risk Assessment and Remediation Planning

The role requires strong technical knowledge of vulnerability management practices, threat and risk management, and security technologies, combined with the ability to engage effectively with technical and business stakeholders. You will provide expert advice, support the development of team capability, and drive improvements to processes and tooling to ensure vulnerabilities are identified and remediated in a timely and risk-based manner.

If you are passionate about reducing cyber risk, improving security resilience, and helping protect critical public services, we would welcome your application.

The Vulnerability Management Lead is responsible for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and information systems used by government and Partners Across Government.

• Performs security risk, vulnerability assessments, and business impact analysis for complex information systems or risk-based projects.
• Investigates security breaches in accordance with established procedures and recommends required actions and supports / follows up to ensure these are implemented.
• Specifies requirements for environment, data, resources and tools. Interprets, executes and documents complex test scripts using agreed methods and standards.
• Contributes to the development of cyber security policy, standards and guidelines appropriate to business, technology and legal requirements and in accordance with best professional and industry practice.
• Understands “voice of the customer” and develops mechanisms to proactively sense adoption and usage patterns of consumer technologies by end users so that policy can align with need.

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Cyber Security Lead – Vulnerability Management to join the Digital Risk & Security branch within Digital Delivery & Change. This role is responsible for leading the delivery and continuous improvement of Vulnerability Management services, helping to protect Social Security Scotland’s digital services, systems, and sensitive information from emerging cyber threats.