IT Security Specialist at the State Pension Authority (SPV) in Sundsvall

The State Pension Authority (SPV) is one of Sweden's largest providers of pension services. We manage occupational pensions and insurance for employers in the public sector and have over 1,100,000 customers, including current and former state employees as well as pensioners. Our office is located in Sundsvall.

Join us in creating public value. We are a government agency dedicated to making occupational pensions simple for everyone who is or has been employed in the public sector. Our focus is on our customers, agility, and innovation. We believe that working together across the entire organization is a key factor in delivering high-quality work.

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RESPONSIBILITIES

As an IT Security Specialist, you will become part of a team of competent colleagues within the security field. Together, you will work to strengthen the agency's IT security and contribute to secure and sustainable digital development.

In this role, you will work broadly with technical IT security and be involved from the early stages of development processes. You will identify risks, analyze needs, and prioritize measures that form the basis for the development of plans, processes, and routines within the IT security area.

You are responsible for translating security requirements into practical and feasible solutions, documenting your work, and following up to ensure that decided measures are implemented and achieve the intended effect.

The role also includes leading activities within infrastructure and technology to improve IT security, which means you will prioritize, execute interventions, and follow up on the work.

The work is carried out in close collaboration with our suppliers, business areas, and agile teams within system and technology development. You contribute specialist competence and ensure that IT security is integrated into development and maintenance.

An important part of the assignment is also to strengthen the agency's security culture. Through close cooperation with the operations, you provide ongoing support and guidance in IT security matters and contribute to increasing knowledge and awareness of IT security throughout the organization.

QUALIFICATIONS

We are looking for you who have several years of professional experience and good expertise in the field of IT security. You have experience in technical work with IT security, preferably in larger organizations with complex technical environments and high demands on information security.

You also have good technical understanding of relevant areas within IT security (such as networks, communication, operating systems, and system development). Furthermore, you have experience with risk-based and systematic security work.

We consider the following to be meritorious:

• Current experience working with container environments
• Current experience with DAST, SAST, and vulnerability scanning of IT infrastructure
• Current experience working with DevSecOps tools
• Experience or knowledge of IT forensics and security testing (e.g., penetration testing)
• Current experience working with security logging (e.g., SIEM)
• Current experience working according to ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002, the Cyber Security Act, and other relevant standards and frameworks within the IT security field
• Relevant education and/or certification within IT security

To succeed in this assignment, your personal qualities are very important, and we will place great emphasis on them in this recruitment.

As a person:

• You are self-motivated. You take significant responsibility for your tasks. You structure your own approach and drive your processes forward.
• You have good collaboration skills. You work well with others and relate to them in a listening and flexible manner. You listen, communicate, and resolve any conflicts constructively.
• You have problem-solving and analytical skills. You work well with complex issues. You have the ability to analyze and break down problems into their components and solve complicated problems.
• You are structured. You plan, organize, and prioritize work efficiently. You set and adhere to timeframes.
• You have pedagogical insight. You have a good understanding of how people absorb knowledge and their different prerequisites. You adapt your way of conveying your message to the recipient.

As part of the recruitment process, work tests may be included.

You are warmly welcome to contact us if you have any questions or thoughts. During vacation periods, it may be more difficult to reach our contact persons. Try calling the contact person you wish to speak with first; if you do not get a response, you can email them, and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

Employment type: Permanent position.
Duration: Start date: By agreement.
We apply a 6-month probation period.

You are warmly welcomed here. Here, 250 engaged people work, and we think it is important that you enjoy working with us. We are open to new ideas, our surroundings, and each other. And we like to try new things and have a strong drive forward. We see recruitment as a long-term investment and believe it is important that you, as an employee, feel good, have balance in life, and are given the opportunity to develop your talents.

We work at a flexible workplace, both in lovely premises and there are some possibilities for remote work. In the SPV building, we recommend a coffee break in our winter garden or why not a while in our fresh gym. Additionally, we have various health promotion activities you can participate in, as there is something for everyone. We strive for diversity and an inclusive perspective at all levels of the organization.

Our operations are based on the common public sector values. This is a fundamental starting point for us, regardless of what we work on. Democracy is the overriding principle in the values, and the citizens are our ultimate client. Other principles in the public sector values are legality, objectivity, freedom of opinion formation, respect, as well as efficiency and service.

SPV has individual and differentiated salary setting applied in accordance with the central wage agreements RALS/RALS-T. More information about us as an employer and the employment benefits you are offered can be found under "About working at SPV" on SPV.se.

The position involves placement in a security class. More information about what a security clearance entails can be found here: https://sakerhetspolisen.se/sakerhetsskydd/registerkontroll.html (https://sakerhetspolisen.se/sakerhetsskydd/registerkontroll.html)

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