Vulnerability Management Analyst

JOB PURPOSE

To support our business strategy and digital transformation, AXA is setting up a new information security practice to ensure a coordinated response to the increasing threat of cybersecurity, enabling consistent decision-making across the organization.

Our vision of information security is to protect our stakeholders by securing our information resources, managing our cyber risks and enabling effective and efficient business strategies that are fully sponsored by executives and supported by all AXA employees.

MISSION

The main mission of the Security Engineer Vulnerability and threat Managementis to perform scans and reports using the Qualys Guard tool.

You’ll be responsible of performing and scheduling compliance and vulnerability scans on AXA network activity and infrastructure and generating reports to different teams (such as server admins, network administrators in order to mitigate scanned vulnerabilities).

 The role consists also of integrating and managing different assets in the Qualys Guard modules.

Security Management:

• Conduct vulnerability scanning and assessment functions related to various clients, environments, technologies, systems and appliances
• Coordinate effectively with representatives of different Business Units and technology specialists
• Integrate and manage assets in Qualys
• Effectively communicate security vulnerabilities and risks to issue owners and assist in remediation efforts
• Govern and enforce cybersecurity policies and vulnerability remediation deadlines

Develop and maintain executive dashboards and/or regular reports to communicate department-specific cybersecurity risks and threats.

Reporting Service:  

        • Provide a monthly/Weekly analysis of common vulnerabilities and compliance issues

        • Produce a periodic dashboard demonstrating remediation progress and cases’ status

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• Minimum Bac+5 in Networks and Security.

Certification

• An information Security Certification is highly desired (CCNA R&S, CCNA Security, NSE4, PCCSA, MCSA, CEHv9/v10…or/and equivalent)

Work Ethics

• Due to the sensitive nature of the task, the role holder must have a demonstrated high level of work ethics, secrecy and discretion. A background check will be performed.

Overall work experience in the field:

• Global technical vision of the main security tools / environments:

PKI, SIEM, SOC, authentication, IPSEC, AD security, operating system security, Windows account security

• Experience managing data security programs like Password Vaulting, Privileged Access Management (Cyber Ark)
• Experience with Identity Management concepts and processes including authorization, authentication, segregation of duties
• Knowledge of best practices around data security
• Experience using an ITSM tool such as ServiceNow
• Strong fundamentals in networking protocols and troubleshooting
• Knowledge of hacking techniques, cyber threats and security trends
• At least 2 years’ experience in the cybersecurity industry

SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Experience with vulnerability management tools (e.g. Kenna, Nexpose, Tenable, Qualys, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with Qualys, a certification is a plus
• Work on maturing vulnerability management & Compliance program services and processes
• Develop and improve KPIs, metrics, and trend analysis for vulnerability management functions
• Take part of the implementation and operational best practices while taking ownership of tasks and/or project workstreams
• PowerShell and Python scripting skills
• Coding skills, such as HTML, CSS, Power Query and other languages
• Analytical thinking, time management and coordination skills
• Fluent English (Very important)