Security Specialist - Ericsson

At Ericsson, you can be a game changer! Because working here isn’t just a deal. It’s a big deal. This means that you get to leverage our 140+ years of experience and the expertise of more than 95,000 diverse colleagues worldwide. As part of our team, you will help solve some of society´s most complicated challenges, enabling you to be ‘the person that did that.’ We’ve never had a greater opportunity to inspire change; setting the bar for technology to be inclusive and accessible; empowering an intelligent, sustainable, and connected world.

Are you in?

Our Exciting Opportunity

Are you a natural influencer, comfortable talking to leaders, peers, and all employees about the value of security in everything we sell? Do you like the challenge of delivering solutions quickly, with industry-leading security, while minimizing the cost to the customer? Do you enjoy trying to make systems work in unexpected ways, and then fixing them so others cannot?

• Be part of a new team that designs, delivers, and enforces the security aspects.
• Build processes, relationships, and governance and implement them across delivery units.
• Collaborate with customer security teams and our delivery units to understand and develop customer requirements and ensure we align with them.
• Understand known and emerging threats to information and help keep it protected.
• Constantly innovate in privacy and security.
• Develop and report security metrics across solutions, seamlessly synchronized with internal infosec metrics reporting.

You will

• Deliver and carry out the security aspects of our products across Middle East and Africa.
• Be strong in multiple security domains and can provide significant contributions to the Solutions Security team and to multiple groups throughout Ericsson.
• Develop elegant solutions to complex business problems and apply appropriate technologies while following security engineering standard methodologies.
• Assist in monitoring the compliance of our Information Security policies, our protection levels and security related events
• Can interpret and communicate customer security policies and standards.
• Possess a combination of troubleshooting, technical, and communication skills, as well as the ability to handle a mix of disparate tasks which may include project work.

To be successful in the role you must have

• A Bachelor degree in a related field
• Proven experience of 5 years in security engineering, system and network security, authentication and security protocols, cryptography, or application security
• Understanding of SDLC, secure coding standard methodologies aligned with OWASP, CWE/SANS.
• Understanding of network and web related protocols (such as, TCP/IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS, routing protocols)
• Demonstrated understanding of Linux/Unix/Windows OS!
• Industry certifications (CISSP, OSCP, GIAC, CISA/CISM)!
• Excellent communication, customer service and documentation skills
• Ability to work independently in a self-directed manner and collaboratively as a team member
• Complex problem-solving and analytical & troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and be detail-oriented
• Ability to take initiative and be proactive.

What´s in it for you?

Here at Ericsson, our culture is built on over a century of courageous decisions. With us, you will no longer be dreaming of what the future holds – you will be redefining it. You won’t develop for the status quo, but will build what replaces it. Joining us is a way to move your career in any direction you want; with hundreds of career opportunities in locations all over the world, in a place where co-creation and collaboration are embedded into the walls. You will find yourself in a speak-up environment where empathy and humanness serve as cornerstones for how we work, and where work-life balance is a priority. Welcome to an inclusive, global company where your opportunity to make an impact is endless.