Vulnerability Manager (Cybersecurity)

Location: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom; flexible hybrid working model.

Company

hirify.global operates the Very digital retail platform and serves millions of customers.

What you will do

• Own and continuously improve the vulnerability management lifecycle across legacy, cloud, containerised, and third-party environments.
• Coordinate the security penetration testing framework, including scope, frequency, execution, retesting, and closure.
• Triage, prioritise, and track vulnerabilities and penetration testing findings through remediation.
• Govern risk acceptance, exceptions, compensating controls, and audit evidence.
• Report on risk posture, trends, coverage, and performance to senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Build, hire, coach, and develop a sustainable vulnerability management team while improving tooling, data quality, asset coverage, and testing scope.

Requirements

• Strong experience coordinating vulnerability management and security penetration testing in complex enterprise environments.
• Technical background in application or infrastructure security, cloud security, vulnerability assessment, and remediation validation.
• Strong understanding of penetration testing methodologies across applications, infrastructure, cloud, and externally exposed services.
• Experience applying risk-based judgement beyond severity scoring, including exploitability, exposure, and business context.
• Experience working with engineering teams where remediation ownership sits outside security, with strong stakeholder management and reporting skills.
• Right to Work checks are required; the role is based in the United Kingdom.

Nice to have

• Experience aligning vulnerability governance with ISO 27001 and/or NIST.
• Hands-on experience configuring and operating vulnerability testing tools.
• Experience with cloud-native and legacy environments.
• Experience mentoring analysts or leading capability uplift.
• Understanding of secure SDLC and modern engineering delivery models.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid working model.
• £1,000 flexible benefits allowance.
• 30 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
• LinkedIn Learning access and performance- and business-related bonus potential.
• Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk and matched pension contributions up to 6%.
• Inclusive culture with reasonable adjustments available throughout the recruitment process.

Hiring process

• Initial Teams call with the hiring team.
• One-hour formal interview with competency and technical questions.
• Take-home task as part of the second stage; credit, CIFAS, Right to Work, and potentially DBS checks may apply.