Vulnerability Analyst

Ap Task was Founded in 2010 and headquartered in New Jersey, ApTask is a leading staffing and recruitment company which provides hiring solutions faster than anyone in the industry. We deliver quality results for all types of positions including technology, finance, engineering, sales, executive, marketing, accounting, scientific, legal and operational positions across all industries nationwide. At ApTask, our clients come first and their complete satisfaction is our utmost priority.

• Responsible for configuring vulnerability assessment tools, performing scans, researching and analyzing vulnerabilities, identifying relevant threats, providing corrective action recommendations, summarizing and reporting results.
• Automation of scanning schedules and agent installations.
• Design and build orchestration, automation solutions in VM stack and/or container stacks i.e., public cloud services (Azure & AWS) incorporating security and achieve continuous security scanning objective.
• Facilitate lessons learned for vulnerability incidents and root cause analysis for operational deficiencies with security infrastructure (e.g. missing patches, config mismatch, etc.).
• Develop recommendations to baseline scanning tool security configurations for operating systems, applications, and networking equipment.
• Manage tracking and remediation of vulnerabilities by leveraging agreed-upon action plans and timelines with responsible technology partners and support teams.
• Design and deliver actionable dashboards and scorecards.
• Review and coordinate changes to patching policies, procedures, standards, and audit work programs in a continuous improvement model.

• Vulnerability management using Tenable.io or similar.
• Scripting or programming experience in Python, Shell/BASH or other scripting languages.
• Understanding of Azure or AWS cloud native security solutions.
• Experience in security risk assessment.
• Troubleshooting skills

• Designing and implementing cloud-based and host-based security tools/solutions.
• Designing and implementing AWS/Azure security best practices and governance policies.