Cybersecurity Consultant

Highberg; Zoetermeer; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance pay

Mobility provisions

Pension

Leave

Education and training

Job summary

Highberg zoekt een Cybersecurity consultant die bij klanten op strategisch niveau meedenkt met bestuur en IT-managers in gemeenten, banken en verzekeraars. Je adviseert over ICT-risicobeheer, beveiligingsarchitectuur en cyber-resilience, van risicoanalyse tot implementatie.

Je combineert pragmatisme met uitstekende communicatie, begrijpt data en AI-gedreven analyses en helpt klanten te voldoen aan ISO2700x, BIO en Cobit, terwijl je bijdraagt aan continue verbetering en aandacht voor privacy.

Qualifications

• Kennis van ICT-risicobeheer en cybersecurity.
• Ervaring met bedrijfscontinuiteitsbeheer en cyber resilience.
• Adviesvaardigheden bij implementatie van veiligheidsmaatregelen.
• Goede schriftelijke en mondelinge communicatie in het Nederlands.

Responsibilities

• Advies geven over ICT-risicobeheer en cybersecurity voor klanten.
• Leiden van beoordelingen en ontwerp van beveiligingsmaatregelen.
• Ondersteunen bij implementatie en governance‑verbeteringen.
• Advies op ISO2700x, BIO en Cobit-standaarden.

Skills

ICT risk management

Cybersecurity

Business continuity management

Cyber resilience

Client advisory

Dutch communication

Education

HBO of WO diploma

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.

Your role as Cybersecurity Consultant

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 are you?

• You have a passion for cybersecurity and an interest in new developments such as IoT security, Security Operations, and cyber resilience.
• You are someone who can quickly grasp a problem and articulate it as simply as possible (both verbally and in writing).
• You are a sociable individual who enjoys maintaining contact with clients and identifying commercial opportunities.
• You are AI-literate and know how to leverage data and AI to enhance analyses and improve processes and governance challenges.

What are we asking?

• You have completed HBO (Bachelor’s) or WO (Master’s) degree, and several years of advisory experience.
• You have knowledge of ICT risk management, cybersecurity, and business continuity management.
• You have 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.
• You have excellent verbal and written communication skills in Dutch.

What are we 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.

About Highberg

Highberg is a European transformation consultancy. We support organizations in realizing their strategic ambitions by combining clear direction with execution.

We believe sustainable change happens when deep expertise and human dynamics are in balance. That is why we work closely with our clients, not only as advisors, but as partners in realization.

Our teams combine analytical depth with pragmatism and build solutions that not only work on paper, but above all in practice.

Over Highberg

Highberg is ontstaan uit negen boutique adviesbureaus, elk met expertise in organisatorische, digitale en duurzaamheidstransformaties. We zijn er trots op een B Corp-gecertificeerd bedrijf te zijn, omdat we ernaar streven om zorg te dragen voor onze planeet, de maatschappij en onze medewerkers.

Werken bij Highberg

• In 'Be Committed' streven collega's onvermoeibaar naar een blijvende positieve impact op onze klanten, de maatschappij en het milieu. We kenmerken ons door onze ondernemersgeest en onze gezamenlijke inzet voor het algehele succes van het bedrijf.
• 'Be Better' draait om ons geloof in continu leren en verbeteren, en we bieden je mogelijkheden om te groeien en je te ontwikkelen, zowel persoonlijk als professioneel. We streven naar de hoogste kwaliteits- en professionaliteitsnormen in alles wat we doen.
• En tot slot, maar zeker niet minder belangrijk, gaat, 'Be You' over het aanmoedigen om jezelf volledig te zijn op je werk, plezier te hebben en diversiteit en inclusie te omarmen. Wij streven ernaar om een persoonlijke band op te bouwen met onze klanten en collega's, en zo langdurige, vertrouwensvolle relaties op te bouwen.