Technical Security Officer

As TSO (Technical Security Officer), you'll be SIDN's specialist on technical security matters. Providing advice and performing security assessments and tests will be key elements of your role, as will monitoring the infrastructure for security risks.

You'll work closely with various teams to assure technical security and manage incidents. The support you provide will also involve developing policy, overseeing security projects, providing security status reports, and giving advice on new technologies and facilities, both on request and on your own initiative. You'll maintain contacts with various stakeholders within SIDN, and you'll work with 2 Security Engineers, our Security Compliance Officer and our CISO.

Our core values of customer focus, trustworthiness, innovation, independence and professionalism strike a chord with you. You want to keep learning and developing, and you've got a stubborn streak. If that sounds like you, you'll fit right in! Because we allow people to be themselves.

You'll also have:

• Higher vocational or graduate-level working and reasoning ability

• A bachelor's degree or comparable qualification in a relevant subject

• A recognised technical security qualification in a subject such as ethical hacking or network, system and cloud security is desirable

• Knowledge of information security standards, such as the National Information Security Baseline (BIO), ISO 27001/2 and the NIS2 Directive

• Technical expertise in information security (networks, systems, cloud)

• At least 3 years' experience working in an information security role

• Experience in a role involving the direction and coordination of internal and external security providers

• Experience of security assessments and security testing

• Ability to advise on security policy and technical security measures

• Ability to supervise security implementations and draw up annual security plans

• Knowledge of incident management and risk assessment in security incidents

• Ability to provide the CISO with information security status reports

• Strong communication skills for informing and advising stakeholders

• Analytical ability needed to inventory security reports and evaluate technical processes

• Ability to collaborate with teams on the development and implementation of security architecture

For us, it's all about balance. Balance between hard work and relaxation, between performance and reward, between your ambitions and ours, between an inspiring office environment and the convenience of working from home, and of course between professional and private life. We utilise the latest technologies for easy collaboration, remotely, physically and in hybrid forms. We also make sure that our people have well-equipped home workstations, plus access to an office space with everything they need to get together, collaborate and inspire each another. If you want to go running or visit granny during office hours, we're okay with that. As long as you live up to your professional responsibilities, we'll work out between us exactly how and when you do your work. And we're not fans of formal appraisal. What really matters is year-round personal development. Where you take the lead. Helping us to consolidate our status as a major, unique player in the internet technology sector.

Pay and other benefits

What's in it for you? First, ample opportunity for growth and skills development. After all, you'll be helping us take our IT set-up in a whole new direction. On-the-job growth will go hand-in-hand with training-based personal development -- for which we have a generous budget! There's an attractive benefits package as well:

• Gross monthly salary of up to €5,500, depending on professional experience

• Holiday pay of 8 per cent, plus a thirteenth salary payment

• A variable collective bonus of up to 4 per cent

• An attractive extra bonus if you introduce us to a new colleague

• A basic holiday allowance of 25 days, plus scope for building up to 13 days' occasional leave entitlement, if you work full time

• A pension with ABP, with an 80 per cent contribution from SIDN

• A business rail card if you come to work by public transport

• A travel allowance if you come to work using your own transport

• A PluralSight licence and the opportunity to acquire other certificates

• A daily home working allowance for every day that you work from home

• A complete, healthy home workstation

• €55 a month (net) for your home broadband

• €25 a month (gross) contribution to your health insurance

• Additional paternity leave on full pay

• An optional cycle lease scheme, where SIDN covers 50 per cent of the lease cost, up to a maximum of €60 (gross) per month

• €500 a year to donate to a good cause of your choice

• Your own .nl domain name and hosting package

• Professional coaching and budget coaching

• A relocation allowance if taking the job means moving house

Everything above is for a full-time role.

The selection procedure includes screening, which involves obtaining a Certificate of Good Behaviour (similar to a criminal record check), and performing reference and integrity checks.