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Vulnerability Management Specialist - AI Threat Strategy - Contract outside IR35

Marlin Hawk

Posted on Jul 27, 2026 by Marlin Hawk
London, United Kingdom
IT
Immediate Start
Annual Salary
Contract/Project

The role

This is a strategic, not operational, vulnerability management hire.
The fundamentals - noise reduction, stakeholder relationships, patch cadence - are already in place.
What's needed now is someone to redesign the strategy for an AI-driven threat landscape, where attackers chain together low, medium, high, and critical vulnerabilities into viable attack vectors, fundamentally changing how prioritisation should work.

What you'll do

  • Review current tooling, process, and posture
  • Design a strategy addressing AI-enabled attack chaining, not just CVE severity triage
  • Shape more agile, automated patching approaches - moving beyond monthly cycles toward Real Time patching and auto-remediation
  • Engage senior stakeholders (CIO, COO, Infrastructure, business units) to reset ownership of risk vs. delivery
  • Build the business case and secure budget sign-off
  • Define the programme that takes this from strategy to implementation

About you

  • Strong grounding in vulnerability management, but strategy-minded rather than operationally focused
  • Understands how AI is reshaping attacker methodology
  • Confident engaging and influencing senior stakeholders, with the maturity to land difficult conversations productively
  • Able to build a business case from scratch and get it funded
  • Comfortable working autonomously in an undefined, evolving brief
  • Non-traditional backgrounds welcome - we're more interested in strategic instinct than 20 years of classic vulnerability testing experience

Reference: 3145190366

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Marlin Hawk

Vulnerability Management Specialist - AI Threat Strategy - Contract outside IR35

Marlin Hawk

Posted on Jul 27, 2026 by Marlin Hawk

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London, United Kingdom
IT
Immediate Start
Annual Salary
Contract/Project

The role

This is a strategic, not operational, vulnerability management hire.
The fundamentals - noise reduction, stakeholder relationships, patch cadence - are already in place.
What's needed now is someone to redesign the strategy for an AI-driven threat landscape, where attackers chain together low, medium, high, and critical vulnerabilities into viable attack vectors, fundamentally changing how prioritisation should work.

What you'll do

  • Review current tooling, process, and posture
  • Design a strategy addressing AI-enabled attack chaining, not just CVE severity triage
  • Shape more agile, automated patching approaches - moving beyond monthly cycles toward Real Time patching and auto-remediation
  • Engage senior stakeholders (CIO, COO, Infrastructure, business units) to reset ownership of risk vs. delivery
  • Build the business case and secure budget sign-off
  • Define the programme that takes this from strategy to implementation

About you

  • Strong grounding in vulnerability management, but strategy-minded rather than operationally focused
  • Understands how AI is reshaping attacker methodology
  • Confident engaging and influencing senior stakeholders, with the maturity to land difficult conversations productively
  • Able to build a business case from scratch and get it funded
  • Comfortable working autonomously in an undefined, evolving brief
  • Non-traditional backgrounds welcome - we're more interested in strategic instinct than 20 years of classic vulnerability testing experience
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Reference: 3145190366

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