Our client is one of the leading technology hubs in Bucharest, where tech pros across various disciplines (security, infrastructure, cloud or development) are delivering and owning services and processes for the group's subsidiaries.

The employer is a worldwide leading services and payments organization, supporting employee benefits administration, fleet&mobility solutions and Corporate payment services across 40+ countries. The Group brings together a unique network of 47 million employee users, 830.000 corporate clients and 1.7 million partner merchants.

In order to protect and further develop the business, the company is implementing a worldwide Security strategy meant to strenghten its portfolio of products and applications and to drive a culture of increased security awareness of ownership.

The Security Expert role  is responsible for IT Security and IT Resilience projects and processes for one of the company's top operation in Belgium supporting the roadmap through actions across the key pillars: identify, protect&comply, detect, respond, recover and train.  

This will give you plenty of opportunities to practice a wide range of activities and to work with many stakeholders across the business and the technical verticals.

Your main responsibilities will revolve around the following:

Projects: 

• Identify the IT Security and continuity needs;

• Risk analysis matrix;

• 3rd party assessment and vendor validation;

• Perform or organize pentests and reach compliant results, etc.

Compliance:

• Support the strategy and roadmap implementation in the Business unit;

• Support quality of IT Security and Resilience actions and deliverables;

• Collect and ensure continuous follow-up and improvement of Security KPIs;

• Comply with standards and regulations needed for the business (GDPR, ISO, etc).

Support:

• Define, implement and maintain the IT Security procedures in the country;

• Handle IT security alerts, tickets and incidents with the SOC;

• Follow and manage vulnerabilities remediation;

• Advise, follow and help on internal or third party audit recommendations, etc.

Awareness: 

• Animate the local cyer security awareness;

• Promote cybersecurity in the Business unit, being the security point of contact.

IAM - deploy IAM process and tools from infrastructure level to application/user level;

Resilience - support the local teams with BIA definition and IT Disaster Recovery planning and exercices.

The role will work in a matrix organization, with straight reporting to the Regional Security Leader (North Europe) and dotted line to the Head of IT in Belgium.

This role is for you if you:

• Are an information security professional passionate by functional and technical matters, along with experience in implementing security policies and procedures, in conjunction with IT and business leaders;

• Have a can-do attitude, are self reliant and confident to work with and persuade others in the organization;

• Good knowledge and experience is expected in at least four of the following domains: IT Security governance, Operations Security, Application security, IT Security projects, Access management, IT Compliance, IT Resilience;

• Strong knowledge of the below items is a great asset: 

• IT risk assessment methodologies, threat modelling or analysis;

• IT Security design, architecture, standards and best practices;

• Web application security and secure coding, etc. 

• Excellent communication skills, stakeholder management and teamwork across cultures;

• Experience working in large and complex international organizations where security is a critical capability;

• Fluent in English.

Why you should consider this role?

• You'll have autonomy to address end-to-end all security matters in  one of the company's biggest operations, working with colleagues in business and IT from multiple disciplines and geographies;

• Competitive salary | Meal vouchers | Holiday vouchers | Benefit budget | Medical subscription | Life insurance | Extra days off

• Budget for learning and certifications.

If you feel you still need to fill some gaps for this position don't give up, let's talk first.

If interested: send your resume to recruitment@itworx.roand we'll reach out to you shortly.

Else: you can refer an interested friend or acquaintance.