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

About the Position

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

Solna (SE) • Sweden • Permanent

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We are seeking a dedicated IRIS² Security Officer to join SSC Space, safeguarding Europe's space infrastructure with robust cybersecurity and resilience management.

Responsibilities

• Security Management: Analyse, assess, implement, and continuously improve the security and resilience posture across the COMM GW lot.
• Risk Coordination: Coordinate security risk management, including threat identification, mitigation planning, prioritisation, and residual risk reporting.
• Governance Leadership: Lead security governance activities, including analysis, reporting, and decision support.
• Incident Management: Ensure incident and crisis reporting, including notification and escalation.
• Compliance Oversight: Manage, track, and escalate security incidents, vulnerabilities, and non-conformities.
• Integration Coordination: Coordinate integration of security across design, implementation, verification, deployment, and operations.
• Supplier Compliance: Oversee supplier and subcontractor security compliance within the COMM GW lot.
• Audit Support: Support audits, assessments, accreditation activities, and customer security reviews.
• Documentation: Maintain security deliverables, evidence, and traceability required by the programme.

Requirements

• Experience: Minimum 7 years of experience in security and resilience management.
• Knowledge: Strong knowledge of cybersecurity, information security, physical and/or personnel security.
• Skills:
  • 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.

Nice to Have

• 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.

We Offer

• Company: Join SSC Space (formerly Swedish Space Corporation), a leading organization in satellite communications, spacecraft consulting services, and more.
• Network: Become part of one of the world’s largest global networks of ground stations for satellite communications.
• Location: Work in Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, northern Sweden, with future satellite launch plans.
• Values: Share our core values of Customer passion, Care, Collaboration, Curiosity, and Courage.

About the Company

Welcome to SSC Space, the perfect workplace for those passionate about technology and space. With space organizations, research institutes, institutional and commercial actors as customers, we offer specialist expertise in satellite communications, spacecraft consulting services, rocket and balloon systems, and much more.

Are you driven by security, resilience, and protecting mission-critical systems? Are you ready to take a defining role in safeguarding one of Europe’s most ambitious space infrastructure programmes?

If you answer yes, we invite you to make a significant impact as IRIS² Security Officer.