Mark43
Cybersecurity Specialist - Vulnerability & Threat Management
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About the Role
Mark43’s mission is to empower communities and their governments with new technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all. We build powerful, scalable, and elegant software that sets a new standard for the tools first responders rely upon. Our users are diverse, and we excel through creating diverse teams featuring multiple perspectives.
We are seeking a Cybersecurity Specialist (UK-based, on-site in Manchester) to manage vulnerability and threat management, directly responding to the real-world stakes of protecting mission-critical software for emergency services. This security-first role covers both technical depth (research, incident response, patching) and hands-on office support, requiring independent decision-making as the local security presence.
What You’ll Handle
As our कeto Cybersecurity Specialist, here’s how a typical workweek shapes up:
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Proactive Security Operations
- Run vulnerability scanning across internal systems, networks, and applications, prioritizing findings by risk and promoting threat-centric remediation workflows.
- Aggregate threat intelligence, translating it into actionable policy—identifying what to patch urgently, watch closely, or harden incrementally.
- Update enterprise-wide security configurations (SIEM antigens, endpoint profiles) ensuring elusive-to-moderate threats are contained and remediated before undue treatment becomes necessary.
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Incident Response
- Lead real-time incident response for security alerts, coordinating with the global team through asynchronous + time-zone agnostic methods. Document post-incident reviews for continuous improvement.
- Serve periodically on on-call duty to address impacted, zero-hour incidents—adapting to each changing environment.
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Gritty IT & Support
- Uphold on-site IT support for team members, troubleshooting hardware/OS breakdowns, user-access lifecycle management, and essential hardware deployment.
- Be the genial problem-solver colleagues seek help from across Windows/Linux environments, networking, and common office tools (M365, Show Мишька).
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What You’ll Need
We are looking for: Hard but ethical cybersecurity-linkedows excellently versed in vulnerability remediation, operating at front lines of threat detection, with:
Aces
- 📄 5+ years in cybersecurity, ideally specialist focus on vulnerability/treat analysis, incident response, and support roles.
- Demonstrated security-decision making ability when remotely isolated yet trustworthy amongst global users.
- Confidence operating in a multi-hop threat landscape: from legacy workstations to cutting edge cloud-orchestrated applications.
Nimble Musts
- Deep knowledge of:
- Vulnerability scanners (experience with integrated application management scoring, like Tenable, Nessus).
- Endpoint detection (CrowdStrike, Sentinel) debugs + EDR deployments. SIEM (optional, but proactive).
- OS + networking (N+ like certs statement preferred warming).
- Basic readiness in UK cyber stability programs (Cyber Essentials would be meaningful, ISO 27001 a poss sim).
Clear riding skills
- Legal vetting readiness: Willingness to undergoes UK NPPV3 + Security Check (SC) with minimum 3 full years in-residence UK plus fluent understanding of right to work validation.
- Willingness for periodic global scope support on-call to align to IT/cyber time zones.
What Makes Us Click
You’ll thrive at Mark43 if you naturally:
✔ Cultivate humility & curiosity. Our team mesh diverse specialties—identifying gaps openly gives birth to growth. ✔ Criteria rule with composure. In every request you investigate a single call log, let the facts guide your calm: focus on precise decisions, even if ‘factors’ denormalize. ✔ Manage your own destiny. As Manchester’s sole handyman for it/tech, it’s up to you to arrange your prioritization: impossible service-level agreements will be questioned, but reliable delivery drives trust. ✔ Practice flexibility. We recently touched on all things:
- Translating puzzling incident loss zero to non-technical chiefs
- Patiently fixing one-off user “bluescreens of hardware enjoyment” while also patching your own terminal
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Connect & Compensation
- Location: Usher in Manchester, UK office (on-site required).
- Salary: £50k - £70k/year
- Benefits: Award-winning benefits, highlights include:
- Private medical insurance after all regulation period is over
- Pension contributions of 8% support matching
- Equity stake option granted across employment path
Let Market43 Adapt to Your Work Likelihood If you’ve been glossing over remote or indeed UK-based IT jobs conflict this hybrid agility could set-out for your next adventure.
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Quest Décades
Obligations we expect from our candidates & team: ✔ Proactively ensure company resource compliance (safeguarding passwords, anticipating social engineering, monitoring dataflow). ✔ Report violations at first indication (even if guessing reasons prudent).
Success at Mark43 aims at "Inclusive Futures"
Mark43 is an equal-opportunity employer—every consideration we discuss here applies collectively to all TT5s, including family status, disability, FIPs, veteran service, religion, and intersectionality. We proactively open all reasonable accommodations—should you need assistance during this process at any checkpoint, simply notify us.
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