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Senior Cybersecurity Analyst – Vulnerability Management

London – UK (Hybrid)

About the Role

As part of the continued expansion of our cybersecurity program, we are seeking a Senior Analyst, Threat & Vulnerability Management with a primary focus on applications and cloud environments.

In this role, you will support and execute vulnerability management activities across the full lifecycle — from identification through remediation — helping prioritize risks based on business and operational impact across application, cloud, and broader technology environments.

Working closely with Cybersecurity, IT, application, cloud, engineering, and business stakeholders, you will help strengthen the organization's security posture and contribute to the continuous improvement of our Threat & Vulnerability Management program.

Key Responsibilities

Execute vulnerability management activities across the full lifecycle, including discovery, assessment, prioritization, tracking, and remediation validation.
Analyze vulnerability and threat data to identify high-risk exposures, trends, and remediation priorities across application and cloud environments.
Review vulnerabilities affecting web applications, APIs, cloud services, virtual machines, containers, and cloud-native platforms to support risk-based prioritization and response.
Coordinate with application teams, cloud engineering, DevOps, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders to assess impact and drive timely remediation, including validation of fixes and follow-up on outstanding issues.
Develop and maintain dashboards, metrics, and reports, and prepare summaries and briefings for both technical teams and leadership stakeholders.
Support policy and process adherence related to vulnerability management, remediation, exception handling, and risk treatment, and serve as a point of coordination for complex issues.
Participate in incident response or urgent risk mitigation activities when vulnerabilities present elevated operational or security risk.
Contribute to the continuous improvement of Threat & Vulnerability Management processes, workflows, and reporting capabilities, particularly for application and cloud security.

Profile

3–5+ years of experience in threat and vulnerability management, cybersecurity operations, application security, cloud security, security engineering, or related cybersecurity roles.
Experience working with vulnerability management and scanning tools such as Tenable (Nessus), Qualys, Wiz, Cloudflare, or similar, along with endpoint or cloud security platforms where applicable.
Experience assessing, prioritizing, and tracking vulnerabilities through remediation in enterprise application and cloud environments.
Experience working in or supporting application security, cloud security, infrastructure security, or DevSecOps environments is strongly preferred.
Strong understanding of CVSS scoring and the ability to interpret severity ratings in the context of business impact, exploitability, asset criticality, and remediation prioritization.
Familiarity with vulnerabilities affecting web applications, APIs, operating systems, cloud platforms, containers, and misconfigurations in cloud-native environments.
Ability to analyze technical findings and translate them into clear, actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across cybersecurity, IT, application development, cloud, engineering, and business teams.
Demonstrated ability to work independently, support process maturity, and contribute to a proactive, risk-informed security culture.
Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CEH, OSCP, CISM, CCSP, AWS/Azure security certifications, or similar are preferred.

A bit about us

Digital Realty is the leading provider of carrier and cloud neutral data centre services by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 28 countries on 6 continents. We've 3,500+ colleagues around the world who work together, come up with life-changing solutions and create connections that matter every day.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. Join us and you'll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you'll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We'll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. This is an exciting time to join our business so apply now and make your mark on our future.

Notes

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Digital Realty is an equal opportunity employer, EOE/AA/M/F/Vets/Disabled. All applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, or other status protected by law or Company policy.

Digital Realty is a publicly traded company (NYSE: DLR) with investment grade ratings from all three major ratings agencies.

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