For 75 years, Charles River employees have worked together to assist in the discovery, development and safe manufacture of new drug therapies. When you join our family, you will have a significant impact on the health and well-being of people across the globe. Whether your background is in life sciences, finance, IT, sales or another area, your skills will play an important role in the work we perform. In return, we’ll help you build a career that you can feel passionate about. Job Summary Are you a hands on practitioner of the vulnerability management practice in the cyber security defense? Are you familiar with Tenable/Nessus for Vulnerability Management? Are you ready for the next step in your cyber security career? Charles River Laboratories are excited to offer this fully remote, UK based position for a Senior Analyst to join our global info sec team. Offering huge lateral and upwards career development opportunities and learning whilst working across the Americas, EMEA and APAC you can expect variety within an independent role. This is a technical role, you must possess a solid understanding of information security, applications, operating systems, networking, cloud infrastructure, and basic attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). The senior vulnerability analyst understands that legacy and present-day systems and applications may have weaknesses that can be exploited by external threat actors and potentially lead to a breach. Given that vulnerability management and risk exposure extend across all technical systems enterprise-wide, responsibilities of this position include identifying assets and vulnerabilities, reporting, remediation and continuous assessment. The position must collaborate with others on the team for remediation and additional validation, as well as contribute to other collaborative approaches driven by the security team strategy. What You'll Be Doing Work as part of a team to consistently learn and share advanced skills and foster team excellence. Manage vulnerabilities across applications, endpoints, databases, networking devices, and mobile, cloud and third-party assets. Conduct continuous discovery and vulnerability assessment of enterprise-wide assets. Document, prioritise and formally report asset and vulnerability state, along with remediation recommendations and validation. Communicate vulnerability results in a manner understood by technical and non-technical business units based on risk tolerance and threat to the business and gain support through influential messaging. Leverage vulnerability database sources to understand each weakness, its probability and remediation options, including vendor-supplied fixes and workarounds. Support internal and external auditors in their duties that focus on compliance and risk reduction. Collaborate with security groups such as ‘pentesters’, patching, threat intelligence and 3rd party risk management to form a holistic team dedicated to thwarting attackers and reducing attack surface. Regularly research and learn new TTPs in public and closed forums, and work with colleagues to assess risk and implement/validate controls as necessary. Qualifications & Experience Bachelor’s degree (B.A / B.Sc) or equivalent in computer science, information technology, or related discipline. Proven extensive and related experience in information security operations, vulnerability management. Experience stabilising systems to run minimal application requirements, least privilege and additional host hardening. Understanding of Windows and *nix operating systems, endpoint applications, networking protocols and devices. Must have strong interpersonal, teamwork, self-initiative skills. What We Offer You Charles River offers a competitive benefits package, including a generous company pension scheme, private healthcare, dental coverage, performance bonuses, and access to employee discount programs — plus much more! About Safety Assessment Charles River is committed to helping our partners expedite their preclinical drug development with exceptional safety assessment services, state-of-the-art facilities and expert regulatory guidance. From individual specialty toxicology and IND enabling studies to tailored packages and total laboratory support, our deeply experienced team can design and execute programs that anticipate challenges and avoid roadblocks for a smooth, efficient journey to market. Each year approximately 300 investigational new drug (IND) programs are conducted in our Safety Assessment facilities. About Charles River Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market. With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in over 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world. At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years. At Charles River Laboratories, we recognize and recruit all talent. 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