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Threat Exposure Analyst

Role overview

Summary

This role focuses on protecting North's payment processing platform and internal infrastructure by identifying vulnerabilities and monitoring attack surface trends. You will collaborate with engineering and IT teams to advocate for timely remediation and improve security posture through data analysis and automation.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related technical field.
  • 3 years of hands-on experience in vulnerability management, data science, or security analytics.
  • Direct experience operating enterprise scanning platforms, specifically Wiz and/or Tenable.
  • Solid understanding of the vulnerability management lifecycle, CVEs, CVSS scoring, and common attack vectors.
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL, including experience working with REST APIs.

Responsibilities

  • Operate, maintain, and assist in configuring scanning platforms across cloud assets, containers, data centers, network infrastructure, and endpoints.
  • Build and maintain automated pipelines that pull scanner, asset, and threat intelligence data into a unified dataset.
  • Analyze large volumes of vulnerability data and develop data-driven models and scoring logic.
  • Act as a liaison to engineering, IT, and operations teams to contextualize security risks and prioritize response efforts.

Key facts

  • Remote from: United States
  • Full time
  • Mid-level (2-5 years)
  • Application Security Analyst
  • $70K – $110K / year
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Social Skills
  • Verbal Communication Skills

About the company

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PayTrace

  • Fintech & Payments
  • 51–200
The B2B payment experts, PayTrace specializes in payment automation and credit card processing that enables businesses to accept payments anywhere and increase cash flow. Processing over $46 billion in the past year, PayTrace is committed to supporting our merchants with 5-star service while providing comprehensive, easy-to-use payment solutions, all built on the solid foundation of a B2B payment gateway that’s trusted by 40,000 merchant businesses. With 20 years of experience, PayTrace is proud to be advancing payments one relationship at a time. Our partners PayTrace is sold primarily through ISOs, merchant service providers, ISVs and VARs. Our growing developer community integrates with PayTrace to build secure and powerful extensions to their applications. We work with our partners to deliver payment solutions across many industries. Merchants in healthcare, manufacturing, construction, parking, auctions, professional offices and numerous others benefit from our payment gateway. Our dedicated sales team provides comprehensive support and training for our partners. Our culture At PayTrace integrity is behind everything that we do. We are interested in more than just profit, we are passionate about nurturing long standing relationships with our partners, merchants, employees and community. Innovation drives improvements to our systems while our team is committed to serving merchants and partners. Our mission Helping B2B companies become more efficient, successful, and profitable. We strive to be the technology employer of choice. We pursue this by actively recruiting, developing, and retaining top-notch talent who share our passion for delighting merchants, caring about teammates and giving back to our communities.

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Job description

Threat Exposure Analyst

North - Remote


North is seeking a detail-oriented Threat Exposure Analyst to join our Cybersecurity team. In this role, you will help protect our payment processing platform, cloud environments, and internal infrastructure by identifying and analyzing vulnerabilities and monitoring trends in attack surface posture.



Working closely with engineering, cloud infrastructure, and IT teams, you will leverage enterprise security tools (such as Wiz and Tenable) to track risk and diplomatically advocate for timely remediation. You will also apply data science and algorithmic approaches, including statistical analysis, risk modeling, and automation, to identify trends and opportunities for improvement through process and technology changes.




What you'll do:

  • Vulnerability Identification & Scanning: Operate, maintain, and assist in configuring scanning platforms (Wiz, Tenable) across cloud assets, containers, data centers, network infrastructure, and endpoints.
  • Data Engineering & Automation: Build and maintain automated pipelines that pull scanner, asset, and threat intelligence data via APIs into a unified, analysis-ready dataset, and automate reporting, ticketing, and other repeatable workflows.
  • Analysis & Prioritization: Analyze large volumes of vulnerability data and develop data-driven models and scoring logic that go beyond CVSS, incorporating exploit likelihood (e.g., EPSS, CISA KEV), threat intelligence, asset criticality and exposure, business context, and payment industry risk factors. Reduce false positives through rules-based and statistical methods.
  • Remediation Advocacy: Act as a liaison to engineering, IT, and operations teams, using data and clear evidence to contextualize security risks and prioritize response efforts.
  • Tracking & Metrics: Track remediation progress, analyze trends and remediation velocity, communicate risk posture to leadership, and maintain dashboards, reports, and key performance indicators (KPIs).
  • Compliance Support: Support security audit and compliance efforts (such as PCI-DSS) by providing evidence of regular vulnerability scanning and remediation.
  • Continuous Improvement: Identify and create plans to reduce gaps in scanning, visibility, and security posture, and measure the impact of process and technology changes using data.


What we need from you: 


Education and Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
  • 3 years of hands-on experience in vulnerability management, data science, or security analytics.
  • Direct experience operating enterprise scanning platforms, specifically Wiz and/or Tenable.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Vulnerability Management: Solid understanding of the vulnerability management lifecycle, Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), CVSS scoring, and common attack vectors and vulnerability exploitation.
  • AWS Security: Working knowledge of AWS security, including VPC/network, S3, EC2, and container services, and an understanding of common misconfigurations and attack paths in cloud environments.
  • Cloud and Infrastructure Scanning: Exposure to enterprise scanner technologies (Tenable) and cloud security/exposure management tools (Wiz).
  • Data Analytics & Modeling: Ability to analyze large datasets of vulnerability and infrastructure data using statistical methods, identify trends and anomalies, and translate raw data into clear, actionable reporting.
  • Programming & Automation: Proficiency in Python and SQL (including libraries such as pandas) and experience working with REST APIs to collect, transform, and analyze data and to automate routine tasks.
  • Interpersonal & Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to build relationships across technical teams and provide clear executive reporting.

How to stand out (Preferred):

  • 5 years of relevant experience in vulnerability management, cybersecurity, data science, information technology or a similar field.
  • Experience within fintech, payment processing, or another highly-regulated environment.
  • Experience administering and maturing the posture of an enterprise scanning platform, particularly Wiz and/or Tenable.
  • Understanding of core OS concepts (Windows, Linux), cloud security fundamentals (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and/or enterprise networking.
  • Familiarity with payment industry standards and security frameworks (PCI-DSS, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, CIS Benchmarks).
  • Experience applying machine learning or predictive modeling techniques (e.g., scikit-learn) to security or operational data.
  • Experience with data visualization and BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Grafana) and data warehouses or SIEM platforms.
  • Experience using ticketing and project tracking tools such as Jira, including automating ticket creation and updates.
  • Additional scripting experience (PowerShell, Bash) for automation.

Salary range: $70,000-$110,000


Pay within this range varies by work location and on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. We look forward to discussing your salary expectations and our full total rewards offerings throughout the interview process.

Please note: North is a US based company and no sponsorship is available for this position at this time.



Who we are: 

North, and our family of companies, are committed to helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses. As an end-to-end payment solutions company, we provide everything business owners need to get paid, whether they serve customers in a physical storefront, online, or both. We pride ourselves on being large enough to offer customized solutions to our enterprise-level clients while remaining agile enough to take an award-winning, hands-on approach to personal service that our merchants won’t find anywhere else.


Let’s go North, together! Our most important resource is our people. Join our diverse team of innovators and do-ers and make your mark on the future of payments technology. We're proud to offer benefits that help our team members further their overall well-being through unique initiatives that are both personally and professionally fulfilling. 


At North, we celebrate diversity and create an inclusive environment for everyone. We are an equal opportunity employer.


To learn more about North, and our family of companies, visit our website:north.com

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