Security Manager - IRIS2

Hispasat, as part of the SpaceRISE consortium, is responsible for the technical implementation and ensuring the success of the IRIS² project, leveraging its extensive experience in satellite communications. This collaboration is essential to provide secure and reliable high-performance communication solutions to the European Union and its member states.

To be part of this project, we are looking for a Security Manager whose responsibilities will be as follows:

1. Review of functional and contractual documentation, related to ground architectural diagrams, requirement lists and SoW, etc.
2. Analyze the documentation from cyber-security and information-protection perspective, the relevant requirements and contribute to its finalization as appropriate.
3. Analyze and trade-off on security architecture choices, with focus on technologies for encryption, Key Management Facility and key distribution, anti-jamming, along with their procurement and deployment, by pursuing cost- and time-efficient accreditations.
4. Support the project team from cyber-security and information-protection perspective on the requirement compliance analysis, implications on infrastructure implementation and verification and validation perspectives.
5. Support the project team regarding cybersecurity audits and regular security upgrades required on the system.
6. Together with the project team and external partners, review, analyze and update security documentation.
7. Contribute to the specification and review the relevant plans for implementation of the operational sites from the perspective of cybersecurity and security protection.
8. Along institutional contract milestone plans (ESA, EC), own or contribute as needed to the preparation and closure of reviews.
9. Report to Project Manager.

The minimum requirements for this position include:

1. Bachelor/Master’s Degree in either Telecommunications Engineering, Network Engineering, Cybersecurity Engineering.
2. +5 years’ experience in cybersecurity engineering activities or secure encryption, preferably in the satellite communication domain.
3. Proven experience in working with institutional customers or national governmental institutions, and more specifically with engineering of security risk management, security threats & incidents, security vulnerabilities, malware analysis.
4. Sound knowledge of security technologies, such as encryption technologies, secure Authentication-Authorization-Accounting technologies, Key Management Facility, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Orchestration and Automated Response (SOAR).