Vulnerability Management Specialist

at  KRIS INFOTECH PTE LTD

JOB DESCRIPTION:

• Preparing the Vulnerability Management Plan and the executes plan through all the phases of Vulnerability Management Lifecycle.
• Ensures that the Vulnerability scans are scheduled, configured in tool and are executed as per the schedule. Any failure of scans is to be investigated and schedule to re-run;
• Conducts periodical discovery of IT Assets and ensures that identified assets are highlighted to CMDB owner for appropriate Asset tagging and also onboards the new asset in Vulnerability Management tool;
• Assess the identified vulnerabilities and study & understand the risk profile, impact as per environmental context;
• Participate and coordinate the discussions with Infrastructure and Application teams and advise them the relevance of vulnerability and help them understand the impact;
• Understand the false positives reported and the technical limitations of the environment and facilitate the process of Risk Acceptance.
• Person will be responsible to liaise with various stakeholders for proposing and maintaining the approvals for such cases;
• Collaborate with Infrastructure teams- Windows, Unix, Networks etc. for the remediation of the identified vulnerabilities.
• Maintain the Vulnerability Dashboard for the scope and submits reports both of Technical teams and Management Reporting;
• Organize work in order to achieve compliance to established KPIs for Vulnerability Management and proactively work towards achieving the same.
• Maintain periodical reporting on the progress;
• Escalate- discuss and consult- as required to next levels and Management in timely manner;
• Provide Specialist level for the Vulnerability Management service;Lead the Penetration testing remediation planning with cross functional teams;
• Conduct new threat exposure scanning across the asset scope and advise the applicability and lead remediation exercises with cross functional teams;
• Participate in meetings with various stake holders as per the schedules;
• Liaise with different teams in different geographical zones;
• Propose, plan and execute Service improvements initiatives;
• Adhere to different policies set out by the organization;
• Prepare and provide different reports (weekly/monthly/ad-hoc) to the Manager as necessary;
• Maintain appropriate knowledge required for successful and efficient delivery of the responsibilities;
• Keeping abreast of new threats and vulnerabilities and provide analysis as per applicability;
• Comply with all applicable legal, regulatory and internal Compliance requirements, including, but not limited to, the Singapore Compliance manual and Compliance policies and procedures as issued from time to time;
• Financial Security requirements, including, but not limited to, the prevention of Financial Crime and Fraud including reporting obligations to the Money Laundering Reporting Officer.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Working & hands-on experience in managing Vulnerability Management process;
• Strong technical understanding and experience assessing vulnerabilities and identifying weaknesses in multiple operating system platforms, networks, database, and application servers.
• Ability to assess vulnerabilities and prioritize remediation planning;
• Experience in working collaboratively with cross-functional/transverse IT teams in Production setup (Operations) mode;
• Ability to apply Risk based approach while working on assigned responsibilities;
• Must have working experience in administrating and operating Tenable (Nessus) Security Center vulnerability management tool for a Large enterprise level environment;
• Good understanding of Reporting needs at various levels of organization and ability to design, create and present the same;
• Hands-on experience of creating reports using various tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, Word in graphical formats, trending;
• Experience in working with any BI tools like Power BI etc. to prepare the dashboard;
• Knowledge of different domains of Information Security;
• Working experience in financial organization is highly preferred;
• Excellent in analytical, communication and documentation skills;
• Ability to organize work and be able to priories work as per the Operation’s needs;
• Must have strong understanding of ITIL processes and comfortable working in process-oriented environment;
• Ability to work independently and as well as a part of team and is able to work under minimal supervision;
• Should have time management skills and able to manage work in fast moving environment;

Must Have:

• Experience of running Vulnerability Management Service
• Hands-on knowledge of Tenable Security Center or any other vulnerability management tool
• Conducting Vulnerability Assessments
• Reporting and Documentation skills

Good to Have:

• Fundamental understanding of Operating Systems fundamentals- Windows, Linux
• PowerShell, bash based scripting knowledge
• Threat Assessments
• Required to work on Paris and/or New York and/or Asia time zone*, i.e. 2pm to 11pm/4pm to 1am (summer season) or 3pm to 12am/ 5pm to 2am (winter season), or in accordance to the planned time schedule as required. If necessary, you may also be required to start work earlier or to extend working hours. May be required to be available for on-call support during non-business hours and/or on weekends. Allowance is claimable for such hours.
• Education Requirements At least a Bachelor’s degree in any of these faculties: Computer Science Information Technology Programming & Systems Analysis Science (Computer Studies)

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