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In this role, you coordinate a team in Security Operations, ensure the operation of central security platforms, and guarantee compliance with security standards in a critical environment.
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Your role in the team
- You will take over the technical coordination of a new team in the Security Operations area and, together with your colleagues, ensure the stable, secure, and highly available operation of central security platforms and infrastructure services in a critical railway environment.
- You manage the operational task distribution within the team, prioritize ongoing operational, incident, change, and project activities, and ensure transparency, accountability, and traceable decisions in daily business.
- You, together with the team, are responsible for the operation and continuous development of core security services, particularly in the areas of firewall infrastructures, rule set and policy management, perimeter, and network security services.
- You coordinate the assessment, optimization, and further development of complex security architectures and ensure that technical, operational, regulatory, and organizational requirements are aligned.
- You lead the operation and further development of DNS, DDI, and name resolution services, ensuring sustainable security, stability, and high availability.
- You, together with the subject matter experts, manage the operational deployment of Intrusion Prevention Systems as well as other security mechanisms for early detection and defense against security-critical events.
- You coordinate the operation and further development of external authentication platforms as well as PKI-/HSM-based security services and ensure their secure integration into the corporate landscape.
- You are responsible for the technical coordination of web proxy infrastructures and ensure a coordinated implementation and further development of security, compliance, and access requirements.
- You analyze and evaluate complex security-relevant events, threats, and risks in the operational environment together with your team, and derive sustainable measures for risk mitigation, stabilization, and system hardening from them.
- You act as the central technical interface between operations, security governance, SOC, architecture, projects, internal clients, and external partners, ensuring clear, solution-oriented communication.
- You manage and oversee the handling of security incidents, particularly in the areas of firewall, DNS, IPS, PKI, authentication, and web proxy, and work together with the team to ensure a sustainable root cause analysis and implementation of lessons learned.
- You ensure that security policies, standards, governance requirements, and operational documentation are adhered to, maintained, and continuously developed in the operational environment.
- You actively support audits, assessments, and regulatory inspections, systematically prepare operational evidence, and coordinate the implementation of resulting measures.
- You bring your expertise in architecture decisions, projects, and transformation topics and contribute to the strategic further development of Security Operations within the platform services management.
- You promote knowledge development within the team, support colleagues with complex questions, ensure knowledge transfer, and collaboratively develop standards, workflows, and documentation with the team.
- You assume a professional role model position, provide guidance in critical situations, and ensure a professional, solution-oriented, and responsible collaboration.
- You are part of a scheduled on-call duty for your responsible specialist area.
Our expectations of you
Education
- You have completed a technical education, for example in Computer Science, IT Security, Business Informatics, or a comparable field, or possess equivalent extensive professional experience in the relevant area.
Qualifications
- You possess an in-depth technical understanding of network, perimeter, and security architectures as well as certificate- and key-based infrastructures such as PKI and HSM.
- You are familiar with the requirements for the stable operation of productive and critical systems and can assess technical priorities in a structured manner and make understandable decisions, even under time pressure.
- You navigate confidently within the complex landscape of high availability, security requirements, governance mandates, regulatory compliance, and operational tasks.
- You work in a structured, analytical, and strategic manner, while also demonstrating a strong hands-on mentality and implementing topics consistently together with your team.
- You take responsibility, act confidently, and convince through solution-oriented thinking, decisiveness, and clear prioritization even in critical situations.
- You are a strong communicator, capable of conveying complex issues in a target audience-appropriate manner, and work effectively with various stakeholders at technical, organizational, and management levels.
- You understand team coordination as a combination of technical leadership, operational structure, reliability, continuous development, and active participation.
Experience
- You bring extensive and several years of experience in Security Operations or IT operations of complex infrastructures, ideally in the environment of firewall, DNS, proxy, authentication, and PKI systems.
- You have experience in the professional coordination of employees, experts, or technical workgroups and want to take responsibility for a six-member team.
- You have experience in analyzing and assessing complex security incidents and threat scenarios, as well as deriving sustainable countermeasures.
- Ideally, you bring experience in critical infrastructure environments, regulated settings, security-relevant audits, or railway-critical operational processes.
What we offer
- The opportunity to further develop through numerous internal and external training modules.
- A sustainable and secure workplace with exciting tasks as well as the opportunity to make your personal contribution to climate- and environmentally friendly mobility.
- The collective agreement minimum wage (according to the collective agreement for employees of Austrian railway companies) for the position "Senior Specialist: IT Operations" is € 55,307.00 gross per year.
- Depending on qualifications and professional experience, an overpayment may be possible.
Benefits
Food & drink
Higher take-home pay
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About your employer
ÖBB-Konzern
Wien, Villach, Graz, Knittelfeld, Innsbruck, St. Pölten, Linz
The ÖBB Group consists of three publicly traded companies that fall under the strategic umbrella of the ÖBB Holding AG. This conglomerate covers all business sectors within modern mobility, making it a strong and environmentally friendly railway system for the future.
- 250+ Employees
- 1923
- German, English
- Established Company
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Logistics, Transportation
Employer reviews
3.3Total(3 reviews)
- Career growth
- 3.5
- Team culture
- 3.6
- Working conditions
- 3.6
- Engineering
- 2.8
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