SOC - Vulnerability Management Specialist in London

Responsible for managing the organisation's vulnerability management capability end-to-end, ensuring vulnerabilities are identified, prioritised, and remediated using a risk-based approach aligned to business and threat context.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage vulnerability scanning and assessment across the environments.
• Validate vulnerability findings and eliminate false positives.
• Prioritise vulnerabilities based on risk, exploitability, and asset criticality.
• Coordinate remediation with platform, infrastructure and client teams.
• Track remediation progress and validate fixes through re-scanning.
• Manage vulnerability exceptions and risk acceptances.
• Provide vulnerability context to SOC investigations and incident response.
• Produce vulnerability risk reports and remediation metrics.
• Support audits, compliance, and assurance activities.
• Continuously improve vulnerability management processes and tooling.

Role Requirements:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Experience: 7-10 years in vulnerability management, SOC or security engineering roles. Experience operating vulnerability management in large or regulated environments.
• Certifications (preferred): Tenable/Qualys/Rapid7 certifications, CRISC or other risk-focused certifications, GCED or equivalent certifications.

The following skills and experience are essential for this role:

• Vulnerability management lifecycle, risk management, risk-based prioritisation/remediation, good understanding of IT infrastructure and security operations, strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

Please Note: Any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory BPSS and the candidate being granted a level of security clearance which typically requires 10 years continuous UK address history, usually including no periods of 30 consecutive days or more spent outside of the UK, and a declaration of being a British passport holder with no dual nationality at the point of application.

Closing Date for Applications: 01/06/2026. Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

Additional Information: Equal Employment Opportunity Statement. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.