Senior Security Architect

Job Title: Senior Security Architect

Location: Brussels

The Role:

This is a business-facing role where the successful applicant will lead in three key areas:

• Build and maintain medium- and long-term professional security and privacy cooperation with key stakeholders such as ENISA (mandatory), NIS-CG, BEREC and Europol at EU level.
• Demonstrate transparency to existing and potential our client's customers by highlighting its approach to security in products and solutions.
• Consult into the organisation on a range of cyber security issues providing feedback and guidance on industry best practice.

• Demonstrate Transparency

• Brief existing and potential customers on our client's approach to security in products and solutions.
• Effectively communicate with individuals and groups within customer organisations at all levels; from security engineer to CTO level.
• Prepare presentations and demonstrations that communicate our client's capability in cyber security including its approach to the secure development lifecycle (SDLC) including secure design, testing and assurance activities.
• Host technical hands-on exchanges with customers in a dedicated test environment. This is likely to include security testing as well as demonstrating the security architecture of products or solutions.
• Study our client's approach to cyber security issues, from design through to testing.
• Provide open and frank feedback to customers about our client's capability in key areas.

• Security Consultancy

• Provide consultancy and best practice advice to its R&D development teams as appropriate.
• Identify potential gaps in our client's approach to secure development, providing remedial suggestions to its HQ as required.
• Gather feedback from customer interactions to provide feedback to R&D teams as well as its HQ on any issues arising from demonstrations.
• Undertake continued professional development, ensuring that skills remain relevant in the fast-paced cyber era.

• The Applicant

The successful applicant must:

• Have ten years or more experience working in cyber security or engineering capacity.
• Be degree educated, preferably in a relevant subject.
• Have a sufficient level of understanding in,
  • Typical threat, threat agent , attack surface and model
  • Security architecture model and framework, such as defense in-depth, zero trust, adaptive security
  • Security echo-system engagement model, such as bug bounty program, capture the flag, cyber ranges, threat information/intelligence sharing etc.
  • Secured AI and AI enabled security
  • Cloud service security
  • IOT security
  • Vulnerability and patch management
  • Operational technology security, such as SOAR etc.
  • Vertical industry security requirements and best practise
  • 4G and fixed broadband telecommunications technologies
• Have excellent communication skills; the ability to be frank and honest while being factual and earnest.
• Have experience in pitching or demonstrating to senior, high-profile customers/stakeholders
• Be prepared to learn and absorb a significant amount of information in a short period (provide internal and external training and certification, including but not limited to provide by ISC2, IAPP and ISACA).
• Be currently eligible to work within the European Union.

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