IT Security Specialist at Tillväxtverket

Do you want to contribute to societal benefit while working with real IT security? At Tillväxtverket, you have the chance to help shape a secure digital infrastructure for all of Sweden.

At Tillväxtverket, we work for competitive companies and sustainable development in all parts of Sweden. We offer knowledge, networks, and investment opportunities. This directly benefits companies and provides conditions for businesses, municipalities, and regions to meet future challenges. Tillväxtverket is a national authority with regional presence in nine locations.

Tillväxtverket has the government's mandate to manage EU support, which includes other forms of support measures handled in the Nyps system, which Tillväxtverket develops and manages. The system includes, among other things, e-services for companies, processing clients, and applications for statistics, monitoring, and reporting. The IT unit where you will work is also responsible for system management, infrastructure, and development. To support our operations going forward, we are now seeking reinforcement in our infrastructure team in the form of an IT security specialist. The team works agilely based on the needs of the business and customers.

About the Position

In the role of IT security specialist, your main task will be to support the business so that systems and infrastructure are designed, developed, implemented, and monitored according to appropriate security standards and procedures. Your work will also include driving training initiatives and supporting the work with our external IT operations provider's SOC service.

As an IT security specialist, you will also support the business in increasing understanding of IT security and contribute to ensuring that Tillväxtverket has an accessible, stable, and secure IT environment, which builds trust with our clients and users. Incident management is an important part of your daily work. The assignment may include security testing and analyzing both local and cloud-based services from a security perspective and, based on these analyses, proposing guidelines, principles, frameworks, processes, and improvements that address threats, vulnerabilities, and incidents.

Your work will also involve developing and ensuring structure, policies, and regulations in the management of identities and access. Tillväxtverket applies the principle of least privilege to perform its work.

You will have access to security tools to support your work, such as SIEM and EDR. You will have great opportunities to influence your work based on your skills, initiative, and experience. The work has both a strategic and operational character and may also include other tasks.

Your workplace will be: Stockholm

We are looking for someone who has:

• Several years of work experience in IT security issues
• Post-secondary education that includes IT security.
• Experience and knowledge to drive security-related changes in at least four of the following areas:
• Infrastructure and System Architecture
• Networks and Data Communication
• Encryption Solutions
• Identities and Access (IAM - Identity Access Management, PAM - Privileged Access Management)
• Certificate Management (PKI)
• Experience working with IT security issues and tools such as SEIM, EDR, or NDR.
• Experience implementing solutions for secure communication
• Good knowledge of Swedish in both spoken and written form

The following are advantageous:

• Experience working with classified security information
• Experience hardening systems, services, etc.
• Knowledge of standards for frameworks and guidelines for information and IT security (SS-ISO/IEC 27000, ISO/IEC 27002, NIS 2, etc.).
• Experience working with outsourced IT operations environments in larger organizations as a customer and/or supplier.
• Experience with security reviews of in-house developed systems.
• Knowledge of load balancing services such as Citrix Netscaler.
• Certifications in IT security that may be relevant to the position
• Experience acting as a technical project manager during major changes in the area

As a person, we are looking for someone who is analytical and has a natural ability to identify problems and quickly find effective solutions. You have good collaboration skills and are skilled at expressing yourself and can convey information clearly and effectively. You are structured in your work and take responsibility and act to drive tasks forward.

We will place great emphasis on personal qualities. We expect you to live up to our employee and manager policy that expresses the expectations we have for all employees.

Employment Type and Application Deadline

The position is a permanent employment. We apply a 6-month probationary period. The application deadline is May 20, 2025.

More Information and Contact

For more information about the tasks, please contact group manager Otto Ramirez, phone 08-681 91 29. Questions about the recruitment process can be answered by HR partner Linda Aalto at [email protected].

Union representatives can be reached at [email protected] and ST Robert Berggren can be reached at phone 08-681 92 37 or [email protected].

We work based on competencies and the recruitment process will include selection questions, possible tests, interviews, and reference checks. To ensure you receive a fair and accurate assessment, it is crucial that you provide the year and month for each employment and a brief description of the tasks in your CV.

If you have protected personal information, please contact the HR partner in this recruitment.

We are located centrally in modern premises where you can choose your workspace based on your tasks. Tillväxtverket strives for a working method where digital and technical solutions facilitate daily work. Here you can read about the employment conditions and benefits we offer.

Tillväxtverket aims to utilize the qualities that a balanced gender distribution and ethnic and cultural diversity bring to the organization. We strive for a work environment where every employee has the opportunity to balance their professional and private life.

Welcome with your application to create your and Sweden's future!

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