Senior Vulnerability Scanning Specialist

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Location Overview:

Dublin

Our Central Park office in Leopardstown, boasts modern facilities based in Dublin's premium business park. With an onsite gym and staff restaurant, all your daily needs are conveniently catered for. Travel options include the LUAS network and the Central Park shuttle service between Dublin City Centre and Central Park. We also provide tax saver tickets as part of our award-winning benefits package, which means getting to work has never been so easy.

Chester

Find us in the city of Chester, a destination renowned for its culture, history, and beauty. Working at Bank of America Chester offers a far-reaching global career for a world-renowned organisation, whilst being ideally situated against the backdrop of the rolling North Wales hills and the banks of the serene River Dee.

Role Overview

The Vulnerability Scanning Lead Specialist is a key role, within the EMEA region, responsible for ensuring continuity of the global operational coverage, and supporting end-to-end strategic technology enablement for the Vulnerability Identification program.

This role supports continuous improvement in vulnerability detection capabilities (planning, designing, testing, deploying tactical solutions), requiring cross-organization collaboration and external vendor engagement to drive enterprise security solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for global operational coverage (Follow-the-Sun) for vulnerability identification.

• Execute automated and custom scan routines to detect infrastructure vulnerabilities.

• Participate in incident response activities in collaboration with control owners and remediation teams.

• Develop and execute the technology strategy for vulnerability identification.

• Conduct proof-of-concept testing for next-gen scanning technologies.

• Optimize and ensure resiliency of scanning platforms.

• Identify and map vulnerability detection gaps to appropriate technology solutions.

• Maintain strong relationships with vendors and implementation partners.

• Track, resolve, and report on technology-based thematic issues.

Required Skills & Experience

• Advanced hands-on experience with industry leading vulnerability identification scanning Solutions (Qualys and Tenable), including custom query development.

• Proven ability to drive and or support scanning tools integration with workflow platforms (ServiceNow).

• Strong understanding of vulnerability management concepts and terminology.

• Excellent prioritization, communication, and mentoring skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• BS/MS in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field.

• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, cloud-based scanning, and compliance frameworks (NIST, FFIEC).

• Experience with vulnerability rating methodologies.

• Background in Windows and UNIX administration.

• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, PowerShell, Bash).

**Benefits of working at Bank of America:

Ireland**

• At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise employees' health and wellbeing - it's what makes us a Great Place to Work.

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner.

• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons.

• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.

• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle to work, TaxSaver tickets etc.

• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters.

• Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan.

• Ability to donate to charities of your choice and the bank will match your contribution.

• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of Ireland's most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.

• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

UK

• At Bank of America, we strive to prioritise employees' health and wellbeing - it's what makes us a Great Place to Work.

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner.

• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons.

• We offer 26-weeks paid maternity leave, 16-weeks paid paternity leave and inclusive family leave arrangements for working parents and carers including 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.

• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum.

• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness, cycle to work etc. Access to free counselling through the Employee Assistance Program and virtual GP services through our private health care plan.

• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters.

• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution.

• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK's most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.

• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It's important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.