Senior Vulnerability Manager - Home Office Cyber Security

Job summary

Cyber Security at the Home Office is at the front end of protecting one of the largest government departments and safeguarding the critical digital infrastructure. Vulnerability Management is a critical service within this operation, delivering a managed approach to proactively identifying vulnerabilities and developing effective remediation strategies.

Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. Where this is the case, employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in the office . Applicants can raise any queries to the email address at the bottom of the advert.

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Job description

The role of Vulnerability Management is to triage vulnerabilities by relevance and criticality to the organisation. Vulnerability Management then identify mitigations for those vulnerabilities and advise on implementing them.

You’ll join an expert team of cyber professionals, committed to fighting cyber-attack across a complex network of systems. You’ll be aided by a supportive organisational culture, and a commitment to further your continuous development.

Person specification

As a Senior Vulnerability Manager , your main day to day responsibilities will be:

• Vulnerability Identification – Lead the process of identifying and classifying technical vulnerabilities in systems, applications and networks to identify security weaknesses and potential risks. Utilise vulnerability management tools/technologies to identify, assess and report on vulnerabilities.
• Risk Assessment – Analyse and evaluate the results of vulnerability scans to determine the severity and potential impact of identified vulnerabilities, categorising them based on risk to assets and operations.
• Remediation Planning – Collaborate with multiple departments, technical teams and senior stakeholders to recommend remediation plans and complex configuration changes in support of vulnerability remediation.
• Reporting – Create and present detailed reports on vulnerability assessments, remediation efforts, and overall vulnerability management performance for stakeholders, management and technical teams.
• Incident Management – Work closely with other security teams and technical resolver groups to ensure comprehensive approach to managing prioritised vulnerabilities.
• Tool management - Knowledge and understanding of approaches and tooling used to perform vulnerability assessments against large and complex infrastructure. Implementing continuous monitoring processes to identify new vulnerabilities and assess the effectiveness of remediation efforts over time.
• Vulnerability Management Service - Onboard assets into the appropriate vulnerability management tooling in line with the Threat and Vulnerability Management Service. Ensure that all vulnerability management activities align with service polices, standards and procedures.

Working Pattern

Due to the business requirements of this role, it is only available on a full-time basis. However, compressed hours are available.

Essential Skills

You’ll have a demonstrable passion for Vulnerability Management , with the following skills or strong experience in:

• Driving improvements in vulnerability management processes and practices, working with security and technology teams to deliver technical and operational change.
• Conducting vulnerability assessments using recognised frameworks, understanding severity and contextualising risk within an organisational environment to support effective prioritisation.
• Implementing and operating technical vulnerability management tooling, ensuring effective deployment, maintenance and use of data to identify, analyse and communicate security risk.
• Managing security risk, working collaboratively with stakeholders to drive remediation and achieving good security outcomes aligned to organisational prioritises and risk appetite.
• Communicating complex technical vulnerability risk clearly and effectively, producing high quality written and verbal reports tailored to technical specialists and non-technical senior stakeholders.
• Coordinating effective incident response activities in fast-paced environments, engaging with cross-functional teams to triage, contain and remediate security incidents.

SFIA capability framework

Skills for the Information Age (SFIA) version 8 is the technical framework that sets the standard capability and development of all levels in the Home Office. This is a link to the capability framework: All skills A - Z English (sfia-online.org) .

We use set SFIA technical skills to form our interview questions and we will assess you against these technical skills during the selection process.

The essential skills listed above are reflective of the Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession Career Framework (based on the industry standard SFIA framework). Use the SFIA Levels of responsibility to understand what would be expected for each technical skills listed below.

Strategy and Architecture

• Security and Privacy • Threat Intelligence (THIN) – Level 3
• Governance, risk and compliance • Risk management (BURM) – Level 3

Delivery and Operation

• Service Management • Incident Management (USUP) – Level 3
• Security Operations (SCAD) – Level 3
• Security services • Vulnerability Assessment (VUAS) – Level 3
• Relationships and engagement
• Stakeholder management • Stakeholder relationship management (RLMT) – Level 3 ( Generic Level 3 descriptor)

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Making Effective Decisions
• Changing and Improving
• Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Threat Intelligence (THIN) – Level 3
• Risk management (BURM) – Level 3
• Incident Management (USUP) – Level 3
• Security Operations (SCAD) – Level 3
• Vulnerability Assessment (VUAS) – Level 3
• Stakeholder relationship management (RLMT) – Level 3 (Generic Level 3 descriptor)

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £49,850, Home Office contributes

£14,441 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

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Why work for us...

Find out more information at : Benefits - Home Office Careers, but some of the primary ones are:

• A Civil Service Pension with employer contribution rates of at least 28.97%.
• In-year reward scheme for one-off or sustained exceptional personal or team achievements.
• 25 days annual leave on appointment, rising with service.
• 8 days of public holidays, plus 1 additional privilege day.
• Where business needs allow, some roles may be suitable for a combination of office and home-based working. This is a non-contractual arrangement where all employees will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of their working time in an office.

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Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window) , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to complete a CV and 1000 word personal statement:

• CV – include a brief employment history outlining for each role, the organisation, job title, dates in post, and key responsibilities and achievements. Any recent employment gaps should be explained. A second section should set out the skills and experience most relevant to this role, drawing on your career, training, and other relevant activities without repeating the employment history. Focus on the evidence that best demonstrates your capability to meet the role requirements.
• Personal statement - this should present a clear and coherent narrative explaining why you are applying, what you would bring to the role, and how your experience meets the essential criteria. Use well ‑ chosen examples to illustrate your impact, drawing on STAR ‑ style thinking where helpful, but ensure the statement reads as a single, flowing document rather than a set of isolated responses.

To ensure you are assessed on merit alone, we ask you to anonymise your application. This means removing personal identifiers such as your name, age, and place of education. You do not need to remove your employment history, job titles, or any information about your work.

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Problems during the application process

If you experience problems accessing this advert, or you think you’ve made a mistake on an initial application, please contact hocandidates.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk, including the vacancy reference, at least two working days before the vacancy closes. Further information can be found on our website .

Do not create or attempt to submit another application, online test or use a different Civil Service Jobs account to proceed as this would be in violation of the candidate declaration.

Sift Stage

The sift will be held on the CV and Personal Statement . Please read the essential skills for this position carefully. We will only consider those who meet the listed requirements.

In the event of a high number of applications received, the sift will be held on the Personal Statement only.

Interview Stage

Candidates reaching the required standard will then be invited to attend an interview. The interview will assess your Technical Skills (SFIA Framework) and Behaviours using technical and behaviour-based questions.

As part of the interview process, you will be required to deliver a presentation at the start of your interview. The presentation topic will be shared with you in your interview invitation, no later than 48 hours before the scheduled interview time.

If you are invited to an interview, you will be required to bring a range of documentation for the purposes of establishing identity and to aid any pre-employment checks. Please see the attached list of Home Office acceptable ID documents.

Sift and Interview dates

The sift will commence from 29 September 2026.

Interviews are expected to take place from 12 October 2026. (Subject to the Panel’s operational requirements/priorities).

Interviews will be conducted remotely via MS Teams.

We will try to meet the dates set out in the advert. There may be occasions when these dates will change. You will be provided with sufficient notice of the confirmed dates.

Further information

If you have previously made an unsuccessful application for a role with the same essential skills and are not able to demonstrate how you have developed these skills since your last application, please reconsider applying as your application is unlikely to be successful.

In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service on your behalf. However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms directly. If you are do