Cyber Threat & Vulnerability Analyst
Job Ref: 45391 Division: Digital Location: Reading - Clearwater Court, RG1 8DB
Contract type: Permanent Full-time Salary: Competitive up to £65,000 per annum, depending on experience Closing date: 12/06/2026
Responsibilities
- Support end-to-end vulnerability management across IT and operational technology environments
- Help shape and improve threat and vulnerability management processes, frameworks, and ways of working
- Work with technical and business teams to prioritise and remediate vulnerabilities based on risk
- Investigate new vulnerabilities and recommend clear, practical mitigation actions
- Support integration of vulnerability scanning tools into existing systems and processes
- Build and maintain dashboards that show cyber risk, trends and remediation progress in a clear way
- Contribute to threat assessments and support proactive threat hunting activities
- Help ensure alignment with standards such as GDPR, PCI DSS, NIS, and ISO 27001
- Monitor vulnerability management tools and processes, identifying ways to improve effectiveness and reduce risk
Requirements - Essential Criteria
- Experience supporting vulnerability management, patching, or cyber risk reduction in a complex environment
- Understanding of cyber security concepts, including vulnerability management and threat assessment approaches
- Ability to work with technical teams to support remediation of security issues
- Experience or understanding of security tooling such as vulnerability scanners or similar technologies
- Ability to communicate technical issues clearly to both technical and non technical audiences
- Awareness of how security risks are managed across different technology environments such as cloud, servers, end user devices or operational systems
- A relevant cyber security qualification or industry certification such as CISSP, CISM or CCSP
Preferred - Extra Qualities
- Experience working with large enterprise or critical infrastructure environments
- Familiarity with threat intelligence or threat modelling approaches
- Experience supporting or improving security processes and governance
- Exposure to operational technology or legacy infrastructure environments
- Additional cyber security certifications such as CTIA, CVA, OSCP or similar
Benefits
- Competitive salary up to £65,000 per annum depending on experience
- Annual leave: 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 days with length of service (plus bank holidays)
- Performance related pay plan linked directly to company performance measures and targets
- Generous pension scheme through AON
- Access to a wide range of benefits to support health, wellbeing and finances - annual health MOTs, access to physiotherapy and counselling, Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance
Location & Working Pattern
Base location: Reading - Clearwater Court.
Working pattern: 36 hours Monday to Friday, hybrid working.
Must be eligible to obtain Counter Terrorist Check security clearance.