GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.

Our diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.

Through continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.

Job Purpose:

The Senior Engineer, Threat Exposure Management  will deliver the team's work and act as a senior hands-on contributor within Threat Exposure Management. This is a hands-on engineering role within the team.

About the team:

Threat Exposure Management maintains a continuous, prioritised view of where GSK is exposed, spanning vulnerabilities, attack surface, configuration drift and control coverage. The team also runs the business operations of the Cyber Defense function, keeping its planning, reporting and delivery rhythm on track.

Key responsibilities:

This role will provide you the opportunity to lead key activities to progress your career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

• Deliver assigned work to agreed quality and timelines.

• Support colleagues with peer review and knowledge sharing.

• Maintain a continuous view of GSK's threat exposure across vulnerabilities, external attack surface, configuration drift and control coverage.

• Prioritise exposure using exploitability, asset criticality and business impact rather than raw severity scores.

• Operate exposure and vulnerability tooling, including coverage assurance and data quality.

• Track remediation against agreed service levels and escalate where it slips.

• Manage the exception and risk acceptance process with documented residual risk.

• Build and maintain the Cyber Defense reporting pack and its underlying data.

Basic Qualifications:

• Degree in a relevant discipline, or related experience.

• Demonstrated experience in vulnerability or exposure management.

• Working knowledge of risk-based prioritisation of technical findings.

• Practical hands-on experience in the relevant cyber security domain.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver work independently to a high standard.

• Strong attention to detail in analysis and documentation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with continuous threat exposure management practice.

• Experience with enterprise vulnerability and attack surface tooling.

• Familiarity with EPSS and the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue.

• Data visualization skill in Power BI.

• Relevant certification such as CISSP, CompTIA Security+, GIAC, CRISC.

• Experience in pharmaceutical, life sciences or another highly regulated industry.
• Typical tools and technologies: Qualys, Tenable, Rapid7, external attack surface management tooling, CSPM, ServiceNow, Power BI.

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Skills

AI for Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, CrowdStrike Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), Cyber Threat Intelligence, Electronic Performance Support Systems (EPSS), Forensic Data Analysis, Incident Management, Infrastructure Security, Intrusion Detection, Intrusion Prevention, LLM Architecture, LLM Evaluation, ML Security, Offensive Cyber Operations, Security Monitoring, Security Operations, Security Planning, Security Protocols, Security Risk, Security Technologies, Workflow Process

 

 

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

Inclusion at GSK:

As an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.

Please contact our Recruitment Team at IN.recruitment-adjustments@gsk.com to discuss your needs.

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