Cyber Security Accreditation Engineer — Documentation, Testing and Remediation for NATO with security clearance

A multinational defence organisation accredits every system it puts into serviceand this role carries that work: assessing the risk assembling the evidence witnessing thetesting and dealing with the security accreditation authorities until a system is cleared tooperate.

What you would be doing

• Providing accreditation input into project proposals statements of work and the wider projectdocumentation early enough to matter.
• Conducting security risk assessments for communication and information systems.
• Identifying planning and managing the documents accreditation needs system descriptions andsecurity architecture accreditation plans risk assessment reports security requirementstatements operating procedures and the test and verification plan.
• Witnessing security testing against that plan and coordinating the remediation that followswith the people who have to do it.
• Building working relationships with accreditation authorities and with the internal unitsinvolved so approval is a process rather than a negotiation.
• Feeding accreditation status into project and portfolio reporting including highlight andexception reports.
• Briefing and presenting on the subject to people who are not specialists in it.

What you would bring

• Several years in cyber security security architecture delivery of security capabilities andservices or security risk management in demanding technical environments.
• Direct experience of accrediting major system acquisition or development projects in a largeorganisation.
• Security risk assessment methodologies and the tools that support them.
• Network knowledge with real deployment experience including modern addressing.
• The independence to run your own work and the judgement to coordinate industry teams.
• A record of delivering systems and capabilities for government military or industrycustomers.
• Fluent professional English.