Overview
The role involves supporting the protection of NATO’s web applications, systems, and services through security implementation, monitoring, risk management, and technical assurance.
Key Responsibilities
- Configure, deploy and administer SaaS-based security solutions for websites, applications and APIs.
- Implement, tune and maintain Web Application Firewall rules, signatures and security configurations.
- Monitor CDN, DDoS protection, bot management and website performance settings.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments, business impact analysis and security risk activities.
- Support incident investigation, security breach analysis, first-line incident management and corrective action implementation.
- Manage technical activities related to public certificates, website registries, site revalidation and technical decommissioning.
- Provide technical guidance to website owners and translate functional requirements into secure configurations.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 2 years role-related experience.
- Exceptionally, at least 6 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the function of the role.
- Comprehensive knowledge of computer and communication security principles, networking, modern operating systems, applications and common vulnerabilities.
- Extensive experience implementing and integrating CIS security protective measures in enterprise environments.
- Knowledge and experience of network and security technologies, including firewall and IDS/IPS configurations, SIEM systems, log correlation and alert triaging.
- Experience conducting vulnerability assessments, supporting incident response activities and applying containment, remediation and basic forensic approaches.
- Strong knowledge of CIS Critical Security Controls, threat hunting, insider threat capabilities, cloud security practices, and governance, risk and compliance frameworks.
- Experience writing or enforcing security policies and procedures, supporting compliance audits and reporting security events.
Qualifications
• A minimum requirement of a Bachelor’s degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline.
