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This project is the European Union's answer to the pressing challenges of tomorrow to provide secure connectivity services and enhanced communication capacities to the EU and its Member States. In addition, governmental users, private companies and European citizens while benefiting from ensuring high-speed internet broadband to cope with connectivity dead zones.\nSES, together with other consortium partners and core members, was selected by the European Commission to build and operate the IRIS2 multi-orbit satellite constellation.\nAs the IRIS2 team enters the next project phases, there is a strong need of support for all the activities around service provisioning and products that the system can offer in the future.\nROLE DESCRIPTION SUMMARY\nThe Cyber Security Architect, IRIS² will be responsible for shaping and assuring the programme’s cybersecurity architecture, ensuring that security-by-design principles are embedded across the end-to-end system.\nThe successful candidate will work closely with Programme leadership, System Engineering, Space and Ground segment teams, Security workgroups, Services and Operations, consortium partners and external stakeholders to ensure that the IRIS² solution is secure, certifiable, operable and resilient.\nPRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES / KEY RESULT AREAS\nSecurity architecture and design authority\nDefine, maintain and govern cybersecurity architecture across space, ground, network, service, operational and support environments.\nAct as a security design authority for cybersecurity decisions, design reviews and architecture trade-offs across the programme.\nTranslate programme security objectives into architecture requirements, security controls, design patterns, and assurance activities.\nEnsure acquired, developed and integrated systems remain aligned with IRIS² security architecture guidelines and security-by-design principles.\nLead architectural decisions related to cryptography, key management, identity and access management, secure interfaces, segmentation, multi-level security, GNSS resilience, and operational resilience.\nSecurity governance, accreditation and assurance\nDrive cybersecurity governance activities supporting security accreditation, certification, and formal assurance expectations.\nLead the preparation and review of accreditation and certification inputs, evidence packages, architecture justifications, and security governance material.\nSupport compliance audits, penetration tests, security assessments, and assurance reviews from an architecture and risk perspective.\nEnsure security architecture, risk treatment decisions and accreditation evidence remain consistent and traceable.\nContribute to the review and evolution of cybersecurity implementation, accreditation, certification, component security, and end-to-end risk documentation.\nSecurity risk and resilience\nLead or guide security risk assessments, threat modelling and security impact assessments for major programme design decisions.\nDefine risk treatment approaches and mitigation strategies for cybersecurity threats affecting mission critical satellite communications systems.\nProvide expert guidance on security resilience, critical infrastructure protection, and secure mission operations.\nAdvise onISMS-related protection requirements and ensure alignment between security controls, operational needs and governance documentation.\nStakeholder and partner alignment\nCoordinate security architecture activities with Programme teams, System Engineering, Security workgroups, Services and Operations, Core Team subcontractors and managed service partners.\nInfluence multidisciplinary stakeholders by explaining cyber risk, design implications and security trade-offs in a clear and pragmatic way.\nSupport procurement and supplier engagement by reviewing cybersecurity requirements, security product strategies, and architectural dependencies.\nProvide technical leadership in an agile, international, and matrixed programme environment.\nQualifications and experience\nUniversity degree in Cybersecurity, Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science, Information Security or a related technical discipline.\nTypically, 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, security architecture, secure systems engineering, or secure solution design.\nProven experience defining cybersecurity architecture in complex, regulated or mission-critical environments.\nStrong understanding of satellite communications, space and ground systems, telecom networks, datacenters, cloud or hybrid infrastructure, 5G / NTN, OSS / BSS or user terminal environments.\nExperience working with governmental, defense, EU, ESA, NATO or national security-related stakeholders is highly desirable.\nExperience supporting security accreditation, certification, compliance audits, penetration testing programmes or formal assurance activities.\nExperience in Common Criteria (ISI/IEC 15408), NIST Risk Management Framework, NIST Special publication 800-53.\nFluency in written and spoken English; additional European languages are an asset.\nCompetencies\nStrategic thinker able to connect programme objectives, cyber risk and practical architecture decisions.\nStrong stakeholder management skills with the confidence to challenge, advise and align senior technical stakeholders.\nStructured and detail oriented, with the ability to produce high-quality architecture, governance, and assurance documentation.\nCollaborative and pragmatic, able to balance security ambition, delivery constraints and accreditation expectations.\nComfortable operating independently in a fast-moving, complex and matrixed programme environment.\nOTHER KEY REQUIREMENTS / COMMENTS\nEligibility for ESA/EU/NATO SECRET personal security clearances is essential. \nCandidates must be prepared to undergo a security clearance procedure, as this position may require holding such a clearance\nWilling to work 60% onsite from office\nTravel as required for project realization purposes\n\nSES and its Affiliated Companies are committed to providing fair and equal employment opportunities to all. 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