Cybersecurity Vulnerability Management Team Lead

About the role

The Triage Team Lead will oversee daily vulnerability triage operations, lead a small team of specialists, and ensure that vulnerability reports are assessed accurately, consistently, and within required timelines. This role blends leadership, hands‑on technical work, process improvement, automation, and stakeholder engagement.

Key responsibilities

• Lead a lean team of triage specialists, ensuring quality, consistency, efficiency, and timely processing of vulnerability reports.
• Manage team performance, workload, resource planning, and operational priorities.
• Perform hands‑on vulnerability triage and validation during peak periods, complex cases, or escalations.
• Act as escalation point for complex validation, categorisation, and severity‑rating decisions.
• Mentor and train specialists on analysis methods, documentation, and reporting standards.
• Own and continuously improve SOPs, workflows, processes, and supporting tools.
• Integrate and maintain platforms used for triage activities.
• Develop scripts and automation using Python and workflow automation platforms to streamline triage, reporting, and system integrations.
• Liaise with government agencies, system owners, security researchers, and other stakeholders to facilitate effective vulnerability management.
• Support programme coordination across internal and external stakeholders.
• Analyse vulnerability trends, prepare reports, presentations, and insights for management.

Required profile

• Degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related technical discipline.
• OSCP certification.
• Strong understanding of web application vulnerabilities, including the OWASP Top 10.
• Experience in vulnerability validation, severity rating, categorisation, root‑cause analysis and remediation recommendations.
• Familiarity with security testing tools such as Burp Suite and Kali Linux.
• Excellent analytical, investigative and problem‑solving abilities.
• Proven experience mentoring or coaching junior team members.
• Effective communication and stakeholder‑management skills.

Required skills

• Python scripting for automation.
• Burp Suite.
• Kali Linux.
• OSCP certification.
• OWASP Top 10 web application vulnerability knowledge.