Cybersecurity Specialist – Secure IT Development in a Critical Societal Environment
Workplace: Stockholm, Sverige
Expires: September 14, 2025
Lead secure development efforts at Socialstyrelsen, impacting healthcare and social care across Sweden by combining technical expertise with strategic influence in a vital societal mission.
Main requirements:
- Relevant education in IT/cybersecurity or equivalent work experience
- Several years of current experience in IT/cybersecurity within complex IT environments
- Experience investigating and handling security incidents
- Good knowledge of log analysis and SIEM tools
- Strong understanding of information security, vulnerability identification, and protection measures
- Experience translating business requirements into secure technical solutions
- Basic networking knowledge
- Knowledge of identity security in local and cloud environments
- Familiarity with security principles such as Segregation of Duties (SoD), Least Privilege, and Zero Trust
- Familiarity with frameworks and standards like OWASP, NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 2700x
- Proficiency in spoken and written Swedish and English
Responsibilities:
- Shape and lead secure development practices at Socialstyrelsen
- Drive and enhance work related to secure code, secure logins, cryptography, code review, and automated testing
- Choose appropriate methods, tools, and technical solutions for the future
- Provide guidance to developers from a cybersecurity perspective
- Collaborate closely with IT specialists and business units
- Write governance documents and define requirements
- Conduct risk assessments, propose security measures, and manage incidents
- Guide technical implementations in cybersecurity
- Increase cybersecurity awareness across the organization and act as a bridge between technology and business
Required hard skills:
- IT/cybersecurity education or equivalent experience
- Experience in complex IT and cybersecurity environments
- Log analysis and SIEM tools
- Information security knowledge
- Network fundamentals
- Identity security locally and in cloud
- Security principles: SoD, Least Privilege, Zero Trust
- Familiarity with OWASP, NIST, MITRE ATT&CK, ISO 2700x
- Incident investigation and handling
Recommended hard skills:
- Certifications like OSCP, OSWE, CISSP, CEH or equivalent
- Experience in DevSecOps and secure code review
- Experience developing scripts and tools for security testing
- Experience with Microsoft Sentinel
Soft skills:
- Strong initiative and responsibility
- Ability to identify tasks and propose solutions
- Self-driven with good planning and structuring skills
- Analytical thinking and problem decomposition
- Clear written and oral communication
- Ability to document work clearly and contribute to long-term structure and sustainability in cybersecurity work
Frameworks:
- OWASP
- NIST
- MITRE ATT&CK
- ISO 2700x
Natural languages:
- Swedish (Proficient)
- English (Proficient)
Cultural skills:
- Collaboration between IT and business units
- Balancing technical and strategic perspectives
- Maintaining work-life balance
- Working in a meaningful, societal-impact-driven environment
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