Threat & Vulnerability Web and ASM (attack surface management) Analyst Position Opens with the Client Onsite in Manhattan, NY

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I have below exclusive position with one of our client. Please review the requirement criteria below and revert to me with your updated resume so that we can move ahead for further steps.

Job Title: Threat & Vulnerability Web and ASM (attack surface management) Analyst

Location: Onsite in Manhattan, NY

Duration: 12+ Months Contract

What s The Role?

We are seeking an Information Security Professional to help ensure that our Web Infrastructures are built to defend against the latest threats. You will be responsible for analyzing and assessing vulnerabilities across a wide range of technologies. You'll engage with various technology partners to validate and manage identified vulnerabilities through remediation. You will work directly with other cross-department security engineering and incident response teams to set strategic direction for our enterprise Threat and Vulnerability Management program.

We'll Trust You To:

• Perform Web Security assessments and partner with other security or IT professionals to assess potential impact from vulnerabilities and determine appropriate mitigating controls.
• Participate in the introduction of technologies to improve Threat and Vulnerability Management operations.
• Build strong partnerships with technical teams to promote best practices for managing vulnerabilities across traditional infrastructure and in cloud environments.
• Understand business requirements and work with business partners to define appropriate solutions to meet both security mandates and business needs.
• Help standardize work-flows, processes, procedures and reporting.
• Produce metrics and key performance indicators that demonstrate the effectiveness of the team s remediation efforts.
• Improve the design and usefulness of our IT Security management tools and solutions.

Desired Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in Web Security, Operations, Engineering or Systems Management.
• Hands-on expertise working with enterprise network architectures, operating systems, system administration or as a security engineer.
• Knowledge of web application security and system hardening best practices; including but not limited to web frameworks, open source technologies and software development life cycle (SDLC) processes.
• Experience working with scripting languages like Python to ingest and process data.
• Strong understanding of web application security threats, vulnerabilities, countermeasures including the use of Defensive Headers and Transport Layer Security (TLS).
• Strong understanding of domain name services (DNS), including threats related to the misconfiguration of DNS records.
• Experience analyzing vulnerability findings from IT and security tools.
• An understanding of information security standards and best practices such as OWASP, NIST, CVE, CPE and CVSS.
• Ability to interpret complex data sets to make informed risk-based decisions.
• Can effectively manage complex tasks, projects, and initiatives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

We'd love to see:

• Experience with reputational scoring services such as Bitsight, Security Scorecard or Panorays.
• Experience using attack surface management (ASM) and attack surface discovery (ASD) solutions.
• Experience using web application testing tools and commercial scanners (e.g; Burp Suite, Edgescan, InsightAppsec).
• Experience using Application Programming Interfaces.
• Understanding of virtualization and public cloud tech stacks.
• Ability to learn and implement technologies quickly.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or other related fields.
• One of more Information Security oriented professional certifications.