Associate Consultant- Vulnerability Management & AppSec

ABOUT THE ROLE

Are you passionate about technology and looking to kickstart your career in a world-leading insurance company? AXA Group Operations is offering an exciting opportunity for young, agile individuals to join our [Cyber Defense Security Operations – Vulnerability Management & Application Security].

Responsibilities

Vulnerability Assessment and Management:

- Serve as the Subject Matter Expert on vulnerability management in infrastructure & application security domain.
- Identify and prioritize active critical vulnerabilities for remediation based on risk-based approach and/or business risk appetite.
- Coordinate with local Entity Security team, and IT team for identified vulnerabilities, detected through vulnerability management process.
- Analyzing structured and unstructured datasets from various sources to analyses vulnerabilities and produce remediation recommendations.
- Provide technical advisory to IT Production and/or Application Teams to effectively remediate vulnerabilities.
- Recommend compensatory measures when remediation is not possible and ensure that the risk acceptance process is followed accordingly.
- Track, follow up and document the status of all vulnerabilities and updates in the registry.
- Ensure timely follow up for remediation of vulnerabilities and assess the risk impact according to internal risk methodologies and framework.




- Assist in investigation of security issues by reviewing results from relevant alerts and other vulnerability identification method (vulnerability scanning, web apps security testing, etc.)

Hard Skills:

- Strong understanding of vulnerability assessments and infrastructure security reviews for servers, web apps, and network devices.
- Solid technical understanding of threat and vulnerability assessment activities (DAST and SAST), processes, and systems.
- Strong knowledge of patch management, network security, server system administration, and system hardening.
- Knowledge relevant Cyber Security product such as Qualys, Tenable, BurpSuite, Checkmarx, etc
- In depth knowledge of applying security controls to operational technology services.
- Proficient in reporting tool (ie, MS Office, Power BI, etc)

Soft Skills:

- Excellent writing and presentation skills are required in order to communicate findings and status
- Detail oriented, organized, methodical, follow up skills with an analytical thought process
- Innovative and efficiency focused
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Experience:

- Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in IT/Computer Science or relevant courses
- Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Vulnerability Management & Application Security services
- Relevant cybersecurity professional certification is an advantage (ie, CISSP, GWEB, CEH, etc)

📌 Associate Consultant (Bengaluru)
🏢 AXA Global Business Services
📍 Bengaluru