SecOps Engineer

Summary

Join Vattenfall IT as a SecOps Engineer and contribute to a fossil-free future. This role involves enhancing the company's security posture through vulnerability mitigation, key risk indicator monitoring, and automation of security tasks. You will collaborate with various teams to harmonize IT security processes and provide technical guidance. The position requires experience in SecOps or cybersecurity, specifically within data center environments, and a strong understanding of data center infrastructure and security requirements. Vattenfall offers an exciting and challenging job with excellent benefits, including a great work atmosphere, hybrid working, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. The location is flexible, with options in Stockholm (Solna)/Katowice or remotely in Poland, with some travel required.

Requirements

• Experience in SecOps or cybersecurity roles, specifically within data center environments
• Knowledge of data center infrastructure (servers, storage, networking) and its associated security requirements
• Understanding of data center network security, including VPNs, firewalls, and access control mechanisms
• Experience with cloud based or on-prem environments
• Administrative experience of Windows/*NIX operating systems
• Experience with vulnerability management tools and techniques, including patch management and vulnerability scanning
• Excellent problem-solving and very good analytical and conceptual skills
• Strong and effective communication and collaboration skills
• Independent, structured and systematic way of working and enjoy working in a team in an interdisciplinary environment
• Very good written and spoken English
• Willingness to undertake occasional business trips

Responsibilities

• Coordinate security implementations (i.e. vulnerability mitigations) for data center environment
• Monitor globally defined Key Risk Indicators and mitigate them
• Create automation usecases (Automation Zone)
• Isolation of servers with unsupported OS (LCM)  management core infrastructure
• Proactively look for the most critical vulnerabilities and drive mitigation process
• Security reporting analysis in order to mitigate compliancy/security misconfiguration
• Act as a SME for security topics to other Teams
• Follow/analyze Vattenfall Security Standards and internal IT processes to harmonize work among different platforms and environments (*NIX/Windows, on-prem/cloud)
• Stay informed about recent developments on new security technologies and assess their applicability to the organization
• Provide technical guidance and training to other team members
• Develop and maintain SecOps internal and external knowledge base
• Participate in projects, audits and compliance assessments
• Support Data Centre Teams with coordination of security topics
• Support Automation Team with development of automation scripts and use cases
• Cooperate with AppOps Team to work on evergreen update solutions for applications
• Helping to define security baselines and initiate changes
• Support the line organization with execution and broaden IT Security knowledge
• Support SecOps internal Team members in other areas like firewall implementation process for cloud or data security topics (HSM)

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with NSX-T virtualization technology
• Scripting in Python/Ansible

Benefits

• Good remuneration
• Attractive employment conditions
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth
• Great work atmosphere
• Hybrid working
• Excellent work-life balance