At Charles River, we are passionate about improving the quality of people’s lives. When you join our global family, you will help create healthier lives for millions of patients and their families.
Charles River employees are innovative thinkers, who are dedicated to continuous learning and improvement. We will empower you with the resources you need to grow and develop in your career.
As a Charles River employee, you will be part of an industry-leading, customer-focused company at the forefront of drug development. Your skills will play a key role in bringing life-saving therapies to market faster through simpler, quicker, and more digitalized processes. Whether you are in lab operations, finance, IT, sales, or another area, when you work at Charles River, you will be the difference every day for patients across the globe.
Job Summary
As an Infosec vulnerability analyst, you will be a hands-on practitioner and representative of the vulnerability management practice in cyber security defence. This is a technical role, and candidates must possess a solid understanding of information security, applications, operating systems, networking, cloud infrastructure, and attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Responsibilities of this position include vulnerability management, reporting, remediation and continuous assessment, penetration testing, and red teaming.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Manage vulnerabilities across applications, endpoints, databases, networking devices, and mobile, cloud, and third-party assets.
• Conduct continuous discovery and vulnerability assessment of enterprise-wide assets.
• Support auditors in their duties that focus on compliance and risk reduction.
• Perform penetration tests against company-owned assets, including internal and cloud-based assets, as well as web applications and APIs.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Education: Bachelor’s degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in computer science, information technology, or related discipline.
• Very strong experience in information security operations, vulnerability management, or related disciplines.
• An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.
• Understanding of OWASP, CVSS, the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and the software development lifecycle.
• Capable of scripting in Python, Bash, Perl, or PowerShell.
• Certification/Licensure: IT security-related certification desired (e.g., Security +, CISSP, CISA, GCED, GPEN, GCIH, or similar professional certification).
• Other:
Must have strong interpersonal, teamwork, and self-initiative skills.
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
• This position has been designated as permanently remote.
Comments:
• May require occasional domestic or international travel.
About Corporate Functions
The Corporate Functions provide operational support across Charles River in areas such as Human Resources, Finance, IT, Legal, Sales, Quality Assurance, Marketing, and Corporate Development. They partner with their colleagues across the company to develop and drive strategies and to set global standards. The functions are essential to providing a bridge between strategic vision and operational readiness, to ensure ongoing functional innovation and capability improvement.
About Charles River
Charles River is an early-stage contract research organization (CRO). We have built upon our foundation of laboratory animal medicine and science to develop a diverse portfolio of discovery and safety assessment services, both Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) and non-GLP, to support clients from target identification through preclinical development. Charles River also provides a suite of products and services to support our clients’ clinical laboratory testing needs and manufacturing activities. Utilizing this broad portfolio of products and services enables our clients to create a more flexible drug development model, which reduces their costs, enhances their productivity and effectiveness to increase speed to market.
With over 20,000 employees within 110 facilities in 20 countries around the globe, we are strategically positioned to coordinate worldwide resources and apply multidisciplinary perspectives in resolving our client’s unique challenges. Our client base includes global pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, government agencies and hospitals and academic institutions around the world.
At Charles River, we are passionate about our role in improving the quality of people’s lives. Our mission, our excellent science and our strong sense of purpose guide us in all that we do, and we approach each day with the knowledge that our work helps to improve the health and well-being of many across the globe. We have proudly worked on 80% of the drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the past five years.
At Charles River Laboratories, we recognize and recruit all talent. We are a company committed to the principle of diversity and inclusion and work daily in this direction.
For more information, please visit www.criver.com.
