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Associate Security Consultant – Vulnerability Management
Location
United States
Posted
45 days ago
Salary
$80K - $110K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Associate Security Consultant – Vulnerability Management
Stratascale
• Conduct day-to-day VMaaS activities, including vulnerability scanning, asset discovery, scan policy configuration, and reporting. • Independently conduct Attack Surface Control (ASC) engagements for a variety of clients. • Monitor automated penetration testing tooling to identify and validate security weaknesses. • Perform validation of vulnerability findings to eliminate false positives and determine actual risk. • Collaborate with the penetration testing team to conduct further deep-dive testing as needed. • Perform assessment and threat modeling against industry best practices to identify control weaknesses. • Perform root cause analysis on identified vulnerabilities and attack surface weaknesses to determine technical solutions to be presented to client along with recommendations for remediations. • Assist in defining, measuring, and quantifying business risk and vulnerability impacts to clients and their stakeholders.
Job Requirements
- Completed Bachelor’s Degree in a related field or relevant work experience
- 1–3 years of hands-on penetration testing or vulnerability management experience
- Ability to travel to SHI, Partner, and client events
- Industry certifications preferred (e.g., CPTS, OSCP, PNPT, Security+, CySA+, or vendor-specific VM certifications.)
- Demonstrated understanding of legal/ethical considerations, testing authorization, and safe handling of client data.
Benefits
- medical
- vision
- dental
- 401K
- flexible spending
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Drive delivery for the implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of Security Operations Center (SOC) Incident Handling & Response and Data Protection practices- Some of What You'll Do Scope of the Role: - Direct Reports: This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports Key Responsibilities - 50% Enforce cybersecurity and data protection efforts - Operate individual and or cross-functional team activities, providing leadership/guidance and consultation to Incident response analyst - Resolve security issues through addressing identified and confirmed security events, successful forensic reviews, remediation tracking, and cross function collaboration. Conduct required efforts against Incident Response ticketing queue and prioritize Critical and High severity efforts. - Provide communication and recommendations for attack surface reduction and counter adversary efforts to improve threat landscape. - Provide continuous efforts to identify and bolster incident response capabilities for the SOC. - 40% Metric and communication delivery - Operationalize core cybersecurity and data protection functions - Establish and Manage SOC Key Performance Indicators for reporting to leadership and executive audience - Establish and Manage Audit reports and evidence for compliance requirements. - Drive scheduled debriefs with Cyber leaders and stakeholders related to SOC current events. - Participate as the SOC SME in cybersecurity tool acquisition conversations and demo’s, to provide thorough collaboration and identification of potential value. - 10% Dedicated Incident commander - Strategic Leadership: Assume overall command of the incident, establishing a safe, centralized command structure. Establish incident objectives, define priorities, and develop the overall strategy. - Resource Management: Authorize the utilization and mobilization of personnel, equipment, and resources. - Communication & Coordination: Evaluate the situation, make critical decisions under pressure, and manage the incident. Serve as the primary point of contact, ensuring effective communication between teams, stakeholders, and external agencies. - Documentation: Ensure all actions are documented, and lead post-incident reviews or after-action reports. 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• Conduct day-to-day VMaaS activities, including vulnerability scanning, asset discovery, scan policy configuration, and reporting. • Independently conduct Attack Surface Control (ASC) engagements for a variety of clients, including the use of automated tools and manual micro-penetration testing. • Monitor automated penetration testing tooling to identify and validate security weaknesses. • Perform validation of vulnerability findings to eliminate false positives and determine actual risk. • Collaborate with the penetration testing team to conduct further deep-dive testing as needed based on vulnerability discoveries.
• Design and develop detection logic and security rules to identify threats, suspicious behaviors, and misconfigurations across SaaS applications • Research SaaS platforms (e.g., Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Slack, etc.) to understand security models, APIs, and potential attack surfaces • Translate real-world attack techniques and SaaS security risks into scalable product capabilities, including detections, posture checks, and risk signals • Contribute to both threat detection and posture management content, ensuring broad coverage across identity, access, integrations, and data exposure risks • Analyze large-scale SaaS telemetry to identify patterns, anomalies, and opportunities for new detections or improvements • Continuously improve detection quality by reducing false positives and ensuring signals are actionable for customers • Collaborate with Engineering to productionize detection logic and ensure reliable execution at scale • Partner with Product to shape how security insights are surfaced, prioritized, and explained to users • Stay current on emerging SaaS attack techniques, identity threats, OAuth risks, and AI-related security considerations • Contribute to internal knowledge sharing and help elevate SaaS security expertise across the organization
• Configure business operating environments securely • Perform penetration testing and threat hunting to identify potential risks • Monitor for and respond to incidents in the Firm's hybrid environment • Keep infrastructure current, make recommendations, and continually improve security technologies • Analyze, design, and develop programs, shell scripts, tests, and infrastructure automation capabilities • Work with analysts and engineers across the organization to continually improve cyber resilience • Provide support to understand and develop system requirements and technical solutions for cybersecurity engineering based on system architectures (CIS Controls, MITRE ATT&CK Framework, and NIST Cyber Security Framework). • Support the maturation of the enterprise architecture to align with the Firm’s information security and risks to the organizational operations, organizational assets, and individuals • Develop alternatives of system designs and/or architecture, which consider trade-offs between security requirements, functional/operational requirements, and cost • Identify and define the requirements of the overall security of the network • Plan, engineer, and monitor overall security implementation of network systems • Support in configuring and implementing network security tools • Test and provide solutions for system weaknesses, threats, security issues • Research and identify latest suitable technologies and processes that will improve the overall security of the system • Regularly audit the existing network configuration and provide improvement recommendations • Other duties as assigned



