IRIS2 Security Officer – EU Communication Gateway (COMM GW Lot)

SSC - Swedish Space Corporation; Solna kommun; On-site; SEK 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

SSC - Swedish Space Corporation is looking for an IRIS² Security Officer to manage security and resilience for the EU Communication Gateway. This role is vital for identifying and mitigating security risks while ensuring compliance across operations and engineering.

The ideal candidate will have significant experience in security management within complex programs and will be responsible for overseeing security standards, coordinating audits, and ensuring adherence to contractual requirements. The position offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a national space program.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience in security and resilience management.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity, information security, and physical security.
• Proven skills in contractual security requirements and governance.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and improve security and resilience across the COMM GW lot.
• Lead security governance activities including risk management.
• Ensure incident reporting, manage security incidents and vulnerabilities.

Skills

Experience managing security

Understanding of cybersecurity

Stakeholder management

Risk management coordination

Job description

IRIS² Security Officer – EU Communication Gateway (COMM GW Lot)

Description

This role is critical to safeguarding programme delivery, ensuring that security risks are identified, assessed, controlled, and resolved before they impact system integrity, availability, compliance, or operational acceptance. In this role you will act as the security authority for SSC’s COMM GW lot within IRIS², leading and coordinating end‑to‑end security and resilience management across a complex, multi‑partner ground segment environment. You will ensure that security requirements, controls, and risk management activities are consistently implemented across engineering, operations, suppliers, and programme delivery. Operating within established programme governance, you will ensure that security risks, incidents, and compliance gaps are properly escalated and addressed, and that alignment with contractual requirements, regulatory frameworks, and SSC Space internal security and resilience governance is maintained. You will balance delivery objectives with security and compliance requirements in a highly regulated environment, ensuring effective coordination without compromising programme integrity. Working closely with programme leadership, engineering, operations, and customer stakeholders, you will act as the focal point for security‑related coordination and reporting.

Ideal candidates:

• Have experience managing security and resilience in complex technical or infrastructure programmes.
• Comfortable working across cybersecurity, physical security, and information security domains.
• Can coordinate structured risk management, compliance, and assurance activities.
• Confident managing stakeholders and escalating security issues where needed.
• Thrive in regulated environments with strong requirements on evidence and traceability.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of experience in security and resilience management.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity, information security, physical and/or personnel security.
• Experience with contractual security requirements, audits, accreditation, and customer‑facing governance.
• Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams across engineering, operations, and suppliers.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, reporting and escalation skills.
• Structured approach to security management, compliance tracking, and documentation.

Highly valuable

• Experience in satellite communications, ground segment, or secure infrastructure environments.
• Experience working with EU institutional programmes or ESA‑related activities.
• Familiarity with accreditation processes or regulated environments.
• Experience overseeing supplier and subcontractor security compliance.

Responsibilities

• Analyse, assess, implement and continuously improve the security and resilience posture across the COMM GW lot.
• Coordinate security risk management, including threat identification, mitigation planning, prioritisation and residual risk reporting.
• Lead security governance activities, including analysis, reporting and decision support.
• Ensure incident and crisis reporting, including notification and escalation.
• Manage, track and accelerate security incidents, vulnerabilities and non‑conformities.
• Coordinate integration of security across design, implementation, verification, deployment and operations.
• Oversee supplier and subcontractor security compliance within the COMM GW lot.
• Support audits, assessments, accreditation activities and customer security reviews.
• Maintain security deliverables, evidence and traceability required by the programme.

What success looks like

• Security risks clearly identified, tracked, and mitigated across the programme.
• Consistent implementation of security requirements across engineering, operations and suppliers.
• Effective visibility and control over security incidents, vulnerabilities and compliance status.
• Strong coordination across teams, leading to reduced security‑related delivery risks.
• Successful audits, accreditation activities and customer reviews with minimal findings.

Benefits

SSC Space offers a supportive workplace for those passionate about technology and space. You will work with specialized expertise in satellite communications, spacecraft consulting, and rocket systems, and have access to one of the world’s largest ground‑station networks. The role provides an opportunity to contribute to a defining national space infrastructure programme.