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.

You will operate within established programme governance, ensuring that security risks, incidents, and compliance gaps are properly escalated and addressed. You will also ensure alignment with contractual requirements, regulatory frameworks, and SSC Space internal security and resilience governance.

You will balance delivery objectives with security and compliance requirements in a highly regulated environment, ensuring effective coordination without compromising programme integrity.

You will work closely with programme leadership, engineering, operations, and customer stakeholders, acting as the focal point for security-related coordination and reporting.

This Role Is For You If You

• Have experience managing security and resilience in complex technical or infrastructure programmes
• Are comfortable working across cybersecurity, physical security, and information security domains
• Can coordinate structured risk management, compliance, and assurance activities
• Are 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 escalate 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 Welcome to SSC Space (formerly Swedish Space Corporation), the perfect workplace for those passionate about technology in general and space in particular.

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.

SSC Space also has one of the world’s largest global networks of ground stations for satellite communications. We own and operate the Esrange Space Center in Kiruna, northern Sweden, with the aim of launching satellites in the near future.

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. We are looking for someone who shares our core values of Customer passion, Care, Collaboration, Curiosity, and Courage.