Senior Certification Specialist

Utimaco; Germany (OH); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global information security firm is seeking a Certification Specialist to manage formal product certifications for governmental use. The role involves collaborating with various authorities, improving certification strategies, and ensuring compliance with security requirements. Candidates must hold a degree in Technical Engineering or Computer Science and have experience in leading certification projects and writing technical documents. Proficiency in English and German is essential.

Qualifications

• University degree in Technical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent.
• Track record in leading Common Criteria approval projects.
• Experience in writing Security Targets based on protection profiles.
• Experience writing technical documents, security architecture, and process descriptions; IT product maker role ideal.
• Excellent English and German verbal and written communication.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for formal product certifications for governmental use.
• Maintain and improve data security certification strategy.
• Collaborate with assessors and certification authorities.
• Develop and refine the governmental data security approval strategy.
• Collaborate to certify data security products according to Common Criteria, FIPS, PCI and other schemes.
• Support strategy to enable faster certifications including onsite regional presence.

Skills

Excellent verbal & written communication

Project leadership skills

Technical documentation writing

Security Targets writing

Project lifecycle management

Education

University degree in Technical Engineering or Computer Science

Job description

As a Certification Specialist, you are responsible for formal product certifications and accreditations for government use of Utimacos Information Security (IS) data security products. You are also responsible for maintaining and improving the IS data security certification strategy and adjusting site accreditations for new locations.

• Collaborate with the responsible assessors and certification/zulassung authorities (BSI) as well as with colleagues from software development and product management;
• Identify, pursue and access security requirements for governmental data security approvals such as EU/NATO-Confidential, VS-V, VS-NfD, EU/NATO-Restricted, EU/NATO Secret and Geheim;
• Being responsible for the successful certification and sustainable security architecture of our IS data security product lines;
• Further develop the holistic governmental data security approval strategy;
• Collaborate with the rest of the certification team to further certify data security products according to Common Criteria, FIPS, PCI, and other certification schemes;
• Assist in developing a strategy to enable Utimaco to process more certifications efficiently within an agreed timeframe, utilizing also onsite regional presence;
• Actively support the team to meet all commitments and deadlines;

Requirements

• You have a University degree in Technical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent
• You have a track record of successfully leading Common Criteria, EU/NATO restricted (or higher) approval projects with approval bodies through the full project lifecycle - specification to delivery
• You are experienced in writing Security Targets based on protection profiles.
• You have experience in writing technical documentation, system security architecture documents, functional specifications and process descriptions/workflows; ideally operated in the Information Technology sector at a product manufacturer as a developer or architect
• You have excellent verbal & written communication and presentation skills in English/German