Workplace Security Specialist - 4542

 We are looking for a Workplace Security Specialist to work remotely for one of our clients, DG CNECT, with a strong emphasis on ensuring service components align with defined requirements and industry standards. This role appears to involve critical evaluation, validation, and integration tasks essential for maintaining system functionality and adherence to EOSC Platform specifications. Testing and analysis of outputs seem to be crucial aspects of this position to confirm proper system functionality. This role sounds intricate yet pivotal in ensuring the system's robustness and alignment with industry standards.

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CV Submission until: 24/12/2023

Context:

DG CNECT, unit C.1 in partnership with other Commission services and externally contracted stakeholders, provides high quality corporate solutions/information systems for the core and exchange services of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), enabling the successful implementation of the Commission's Digital Transformation and Open Science policies.

In close collaboration with other Commission services and its customers, DG CNECT, unit C.1 builds and operates solutions for a fully operational enabling infrastructure for EOSC – referred to as the EOSC EU Node – providing access to a rich portfolio of FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data and professional quality interoperable services in all relevant domains from data handling to computing, processing, analysis and storing.

The main tasks for the external contractors are on one hand to support DG CNECT unit C.1 internally managing the service delivery, deployment and operations with special focus on the IT Governance process of the Commission and relevant policy and security compliance tasks, and on the other hand to monitor the third-party contractors directly, verifying and validating the services delivered against KPIs, SLR/SLA requirements (fit for use), as well as users’ needs (fit for purpose).

Job Responsibilities:

• Conducting security risk assessments in Digital Workplace context.
• Diagnose potentially complex security-related and/or identity-related issues,
• Design, implement and support effective solutions for mitigating security risks.
• Integrating different security technologies in a complex environment.
• Integrating end point security solutions but with knowledge of backend server and network infrastructure.
• Provision of security studies associated with information system projects.
• Security assessments of information systems.

Job Requirements:

• Very good knowledge of IT Governance processes.
• Ability to manage and execute service verification and validation tasks efficiently and fast.
• Ability to give business and technical presentations.
• Ability to apply high quality standards.
• Ability to cope with fast changing technologies used in the EOSC EU Node system of systems.
• Very good communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences
• Analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Capability to write clear and structured technical documents.
• Ability to participate in technical meetings and good communication skills.

Due to the nature of a large international organization such as the European Commission, candidates should also have the following non-technical skills:

Capability of integration in an international/multicultural environment, rapid self-starting capability and experience in working in team:

• Ability to participate in multilingual meetings.
• Ability to work in multi-cultural environment, on multiple large projects.
• Excellent Team Player.
• Ability to understand, speak and write in English C1 will be an advantage.
• High degree of discretion and integrity is required.

Specific Expertise:

• There will be a collaborating relationship between the external contractor and the managed service providers of the EOSC EU Node (i.e., EOSC EU Node Contractor(s)), where both sets of Contractor(s) add direct value to the overall service quality.
• The external contractor shall be able to assess the software tools proposed by the EOSC EU Node Contractor(s) to fulfil the functional and service level specifications of the procurement, as well as the cloud-based service delivery model (hosting and operations) requirement, for code quality, licensing, pre-existing IPR, service quality, and deployment, among others.
• The external contractor shall be able to apply state-of-the-art Software Audit Reviews & Software Quality Assessments based on industry standard matur