Jobs / engineering
Technical Cyber Security Lead
Base Cyber Security · Amsterdam
IND sponsor
What you will do
- Coordinate and lead security initiatives across technical teams and relevant stakeholders.
- Drive improvements in security maturity and establish a continuous improvement approach.
- Ensure technical environments remain aligned with established security requirements, policies, baselines, and controls.
- Coordinate and support audits, assessments, compliance activities, and regulatory requirements.
- Advise stakeholders on security architecture, governance, risk management, and compliance.
- Translate security requirements and identified risks into practical technical measures.
- Ensure security requirements are considered throughout architecture, design, implementation, and operational processes.
- Facilitate discussions around technical risks, vulnerabilities, findings, and appropriate remediation.
- Coordinate or support security incident response and act as an escalation point for complex security matters.
- Strengthen security awareness and encourage shared ownership of security across engineering teams.
- Maintain awareness of emerging cyber threats, technologies, regulatory developments, and security practices.
What they look for
- Several years of relevant professional experience within cybersecurity, information security, cloud security, infrastructure, platform engineering, or a comparable technical field.
- Strong technical knowledge and the ability to effectively collaborate with software, cloud, platform, and infrastructure engineers.
- Demonstrable experience translating security risks and requirements into realistic technical solutions and controls.
- Knowledge of security architecture, threat modeling, cybersecurity risk management, and security engineering principles.
- Experience with governance, risk and compliance (GRC), security assessments, audits, or regulatory requirements.
- Ability to assess security challenges across complex technology environments rather than from a single security discipline.
- Experience coordinating security initiatives involving multiple technical teams and stakeholders.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical specialists and senior business stakeholders.
- Professional proficiency in English.