Cybersecurity Consultant

Highberg B.V.; Zoetermeer; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance pay

Pension provisions

Personal development coaching

Flexible working environment

Social activities

Job summary

A cybersecurity consulting company in the Netherlands is seeking a Cybersecurity Consultant to manage ICT risk for clients, mainly municipalities and banks. Your role includes advising on ICT security, enhancing business processes, and ensuring compliance with security guidelines. Ideal candidates hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree and possess strong knowledge in cybersecurity standards. Enjoy a competitive salary and excellent personal development opportunities in a supportive, team-oriented environment.

Qualifications

• Several years of advisory experience in ICT risk management and cybersecurity.
• Current knowledge of business continuity management.
• Experience implementing standards and security measures.

Responsibilities

• Identify risks within business processes.
• Secure ICT architecture and enhance reliability.
• Increase employee awareness regarding cybersecurity.
• Establish security processes and basic management processes.
• Implement cyber resilience.
• Ensure compliance with security guidelines and privacy regulations.
• Assist in achieving external certifications such as ISO2700x or NEN7510.

Skills

Cybersecurity expertise

Advisory skills

Risk management

Communication

Collaboration

Cobit knowledge

Education

HBO (Bachelor’s) or WO (Master’s) degree

Tools

ISO2700x

NEN7510

BIO

Cobit

Job description

About the role

As a Cybersecurity consultant at Highberg, you play a crucial role in shaping cybersecurity and ICT risk management for our clients. Typically, you engage at a strategic level with executives from large municipalities, banks, and insurers, discussing the setup of IT security within their organizations.

You easily collaborate with managers and ICT specialists at a tactical level. Your focus includes aspects such as securing business processes, raising employee awareness, managing ICT infrastructure and operations, application security, and identity management, from assessment to design. Additionally, you address OT security, both technically and in management terms. As a consultant, you provide advice, oversee implementation, or assess the quality of security setups.

Information security, business continuity management, enterprise risk management, and cyber resilience are part of your daily expertise. You adeptly identify risks in business processes and recommend necessary measures to intervene effectively.

Why Highberg

At Highberg, we turn vision into movement and ambition into reality. We know that real transformation demands more than ideas: it demands people who make them happen. We believe in doing, not just designing. In partnerships built on trust and shared purpose. Our people work as one, combining humanity, strategy, and deep expertise. Because when people and purpose move together, we create change that endures.

We design – then we deliver

We are both the architects and the builders of transformation, making sure plans become reality

Hands‑on collaboration

We work side by side with you. Committed and invested, taking ownership from start to finish

Cross European, locally rooted

We combine international scale with strong local presence in The Netherlands and DACH

Culture as a catalyst

Our culture and way of collaborating are unique, creating immediate impact and driving sustainable results

Your main tasks at #Highberg

Our clients value your practical and strong advisory skills. Through project‑oriented and results‑driven approaches, you help them secure and enhance business processes and ICT reliability by:

• identifying risks within processes
• securing security in ICT architecture
• increasing employee awareness
• establishing security processes and basic management processes
• implementing cyber resilience
• ensuring compliance with security guidelines and privacy regulations
• assisting in achieving external certifications such as ISO2700x or NEN7510

Who you are

• You have a passion for cybersecurity and an interest in new developments such as IoT security, Security Operations, and cyber resilience
• Someone who can quickly grasp a problem and articulate it as simply as possible (both verbally and in writing)
• A sociable individual who enjoys maintaining contact with clients and identifying commercial opportunities

What we are asking

• A completed HBO (Bachelor’s) or WO (Master’s) degree, and several years of advisory experience
• Current knowledge of ICT risk management, cybersecurity, and business continuity management
• Experience in advising on the implementation of standards such as ISO2700x, BIO, Cobit, and the implementation of specific measures such as Identity & Access Management, data encryption, security in management processes, etc.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch

What we are offering

• A competitive salary and excellent benefits including performance pay, provisions for mobility, pension and leave
• Sincere attention to personal development including coaching by colleagues, access to and wide range of education and training and a personal development plan with matching investments
• A place within a challenging and growing organization where taking personal responsibility is valued, you have the autonomy and freedom to perform your work flexibly with short lines of communication with colleagues
• A pleasant working environment with a pleasant and easily accessible office, focus on performance as a team and not on the individual and numerous social activities such as get‑togethers, sports activities and team meetings