OSCAL Architect (Security Controls as Code) for NATO with security clearance

Wlgroup; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Wlgroup in The Hague, Netherlands, is digitising its security control baseline to measure compliance continuously. You would architect the translation from written standards to structured, machine-readable control data.

You will review baselines, import into machine-readable format, map cloud triggers to control IDs, generate the first full system security plan from automated evidence, and lead stakeholder sessions to validate mappings and evidence sources.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline with three years of related experience.
• Three years across NIST/ISO control frameworks; JSON and YAML; and regulatory mapping.
• Translating compliance requirements into code.
• Documented experience of process analysis and design.

Responsibilities

• Review existing security requirement statements and the NIST or ISO baseline behind them, ready for conversion.
• Import that baseline into a structured, machine-readable control format.
• Identify and document the technical triggers that the cloud environment can raise.
• Map those triggers to specific control identifiers — policy as code.
• Review sampled automated evidence for completeness, accuracy and fitness to support a system security plan.
• Generate the first full system security plan from automated evidence rather than by hand.
• Run stakeholder sessions to validate the assumptions, mappings, evidence sources and the generation logic.
• Tracking issues through to remediation.

Skills

NIST & ISO control frameworks

JSON

YAML

Regulatory mapping

Translating compliance to code

Process analysis & design

Policy as code

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related discipline

Job description

A control catalogue written in prose cannot be checked by a machine. Your job would be to change that.

A multinational defence organisation in The Hague, Netherlands is digitising its security control baseline so that compliance can be measured continuously rather than audited once a year. You would architect the translation — from written standards to structured, machine-readable control data.

What you would be doing

• Reviewing the existing security requirement statements and the NIST or ISO baseline behind them, ready for conversion
• Importing that baseline into a structured, machine-readable control format
• Identifying and documenting the technical triggers that the cloud environment can raise
• Mapping those triggers to specific control identifiers — policy as code
• Reviewing sampled automated evidence for completeness, accuracy and fitness to support a system security plan
• Generating the first full system security plan from automated evidence rather than by hand
• Running stakeholder sessions to validate the assumptions, mappings, evidence sources and the generation logic
• Tracking issues through to remediation

What you would bring

• A bachelor's degree in a related discipline with three years of related experience
• Three years across all of: NIST and ISO control frameworks; confident JSON and YAML; and regulatory mapping
• Translating compliance requirements into code
• Documented experience of process analysis and design

Nice to have

• Real technical knowledge of how allied organisations achieve interoperability
• A working understanding of defence cloud strategy
• ITIL, COBIT or an equivalent

Why this one is worth a look

Very few architects have taken a real control catalogue all the way into code and out again as a generated security plan. This is that piece of work, on a serious estate.