Cyber Threat & Vulnerability Analyst

  • Thames Water Utilities Limited
  • Reading, Berkshire
  • 26/06/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

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.