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Join the System Security Section and Play a Crucial Role in Ensuring the Security of Europe's Space Missions and Projects
Overview
Salary No salary declared 😔
Location Noordwijk, NL
Expires Expires at anytime
Organisation Summary
The System Security Section is a vital division tasked with engineering and enforcing system security within the Agency's missions, projects, and activities throughout space, ground and user segments. The section's responsibility extends across all levels of system security, from research and development to the implementation of security standards, and from the physical to the application layer.
Role Summary
- Defining and implementing associated technology research and development endeavours.
- Conducting vulnerability assessments and proposing mitigation measures.
- Providing functional support to ESA missions in security engineering and cybersecurity.
- Participating in programme reviews and assessing security design to ensure alignment with program security requirements.
Role Requirements
- Eligibility to access information, technology, and hardware subject to European or US export control and sanctions regulations.
- Readiness to obtain security clearance from national security administrations.
- Potential to undergo selection tests during the recruitment process and basic screening by an external background screening service before appointment.
The System Security Section is responsible for the end-to-end system security engineering of the Agency’s missions, projects and activities in the space, ground and user segments, and for the communication links at system, subsystem, element and equipment level. It covers the missions from the study phase to the definition of requirements, design, development, security integration/verification, and security service preparation, across the full stack, from the physical to the application layer.
To serve these functions, the System Security Section defines and implements the associated technology research and development (R&D) and studies, as well as the required security engineering standards. Using security laboratory facilities, the System Security Section performs vulnerability assessments at all levels under its responsibility, proposing detection methods, mitigation and protection measures, using security assessment tools and equipment.
The System Security Section also provides functional support to ESA missions and projects in the areas of security engineering and cyber security. Your tasks and responsibilities will include: participating in programme reviews of projects, assessing the security design, implementation, qualification and validation of the space segment, to ensure development is in line with relevant programme security requirements.
Applicants must be eligible to access information, technology, and hardware which is subject to European or US export control and sanctions regulations & eligible to acquire the security clearance by their national security administrations. During the recruitment process, the Agency may request applicants to undergo selection tests. Additionally, successful candidates will need to undergo basic screening before appointment, which will be conducted by an external background screening service, in compliance with the European Space Agency's security procedures.
