Job
- Level
- Experienced
- Job Field
- IT, Network, Security
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Salary
- from 65.000 € gross/year
- Location
- Gemeinde Furth bei Göttweig
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will develop security standards, implement hardening measures, and handle SIEM topics to enhance the infrastructure's security posture through monitoring and vulnerability management.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- The Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) is a leading European biomedical research institute focused on functional genomics and stem cell technologies. Located at the Vienna BioCenter, IMBA is part of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. The Vienna BioCenter is one of Europe's leading life sciences hubs, bringing together research institutes, universities, and biotech companies in Vienna. IMBA is seeking an Infrastructure Security Engineer (Security / Hardening / SIEM) to drive security improvements across its infrastructure. The role works across platforms and services to strengthen the institute's security posture, with a focus on hardening, security monitoring and SIEM, vulnerability follow-up, and the ongoing development of operational security standards. The role suits someone who likes working broadly across infrastructure, cloud, platforms, and services rather than being tied to a single technology stack.
- Drive and coordinate infrastructure security initiatives across the environment.
- Develop and maintain hardening standards and operational security baselines.
- Support vulnerability follow-up, remediation tracking, and prioritization.
- Own SIEM topics such as log onboarding, visibility, alerting, and use case development.
- Support security monitoring, detection, and incident triage.
- Review infrastructure patterns, services, and technical changes from a security perspective.
- Work with infrastructure and application teams to put practical security improvements in place.
- Help strengthen security across Linux, containers, cloud, identity, and services.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Gutes Verständnis für Hardening in Linux-, Cloud- oder Hybrid-Umgebungen.
- Strong analytical skills, able to work across teams and technical domains.
- Pragmatic, structured approach to security improvements.
- Good communication skills, able to translate security requirements into concrete measures.
- Familiarity with identity and access security.
Experience
- Experience in infrastructure, platform, or operational security.
- Experience with SIEM, logging, alerting, or detection engineering.
- Experience with vulnerability management and remediation.
- Experience with container, Kubernetes, or OpenShift security.
- Experience with incident handling or security operations.
- Experience with compliance-oriented baselines and controls.
- Experience in a mixed on-premises and cloud environment.
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What we offer
- A collaborative and international working environment at the Vienna BioCenter. Modern infrastructure and access to a strong scientific and administrative campus network.
- Flexible choice of work equipment.
- Starke Unterstützung für die berufliche Weiterentwicklung.
- Flexible working hours & up to 2 days of home office per week.
- Cafeteria, on-site kindergarten, public transport subsidy (Jobticket), and much more.
- An annual gross salary starting from € 65,000 (approx. € 4,643 gross per month, paid 14 times a year), with a willingness to pay more depending on your professional qualification and experience.
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Benefits
Work-Life-Integration
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Job Locations
About Your Employer
IMBA - Institut für Molekulare Biotechnologie GmbH
Wien
The IMBA is a young research institute that specializes in basic research in the fields of molecular biology and medicine. The scientists are interested in molecular processes within cells and organisms, searching for the fundamental causes of various diseases.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Healthcare, Social Sector, Science, Research
Infrastructure Security Engineer
- Salary
- from 65.000 € gross/yearEstimated net salary based on the gross salary in the job ad.from 43.766 € net/year
- Location
- Gemeinde Furth bei Göttweig
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
