Vulnerability Exposure Analyst

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What you'll be doing...

The Exposure Analysis & Response team's mission involves researching, assessing, prioritizing, and mitigating security vulnerabilities throughout the Verizon Enterprise. The role requires experience in vulnerability management, risk assessment, exposure analysis, and remediation strategies. Analysts in this role work closely with IT and security teams to implement effective solutions.

Responsibilities include:

• Evaluating the exploitability and impact of identified vulnerabilities, prioritizing them for remediation.

• Identifying practical solutions to remediate vulnerabilities, including patching, configuration changes, and security controls.

• Effectively communicating with a variety of teams at all levels of the business.

• Developing action plans and communicating concise recommendations to owners of vulnerable assets.

• Working on a fast-paced, energetic team that frequently conducts urgent response missions.

• Staying informed about emerging security threats and vulnerabilities to proactively identify and address potential risks.

• Maintaining reports, documentation, and metrics to demonstrate our effectiveness.

• Tracking and managing multiple remediation efforts simultaneously.

• Analyzing our external attack surface to identify vulnerabilities and attack vectors.

You're a great teammate who enjoys collaborating with various partners to achieve winning outcomes. You understand the importance of keeping the lines of communication across all levels to earn trust. You listen carefully with an intent to understand. You like digging into the details and coming up with recommendations that will have a huge impact.

You'll need to have:

• Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.

• Four or more years of relevant work experience.

• Experience with operating systems, networking concepts, cloud environments, and application security.

• Experience with various remediation methods, including patching, configuration changes, and security controls.

• Experience with vulnerability management and risk assessments, working with large data sets.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Cyber Security.

• CISA and/or CISSP certification.

• Hands-on experience with Tenable Nessus, Qualys, or Rapid7 platforms.

• Expertise in Cloud security, Open Source security, application security, etc.

• Attack surface management.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.

Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, stock incentive programs, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we've got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.