Do you want to have fun at work while working towards a fossil-free society?

To achieve our goal, we need committed employees who want to contribute to a better climate. We are making the green transition possible and are making extensive investments in our hydropower plants, which will lead to a number of exciting and varied assignments and projects in the coming years.

Secure energy production in an increasingly strained world - Vattenfall Vattenkraft is now looking for an IT security specialist!

As an IT security specialist, you will be a key person in our active digitization work where we contribute to improved functions while ensuring that hydropower systems and IT services are both secure and available.

You will be part of the Development and IT/OT Security group, your closest colleagues work as IT Architects, OT Security Specialist, IT Project Manager and IT Management Manager. The world around us has tightened the demands on our practice and capabilities, which gives us important, exciting and fun challenges ahead.

With us, you will work with both operational and tactical IT security issues linked to the organization's goals and strategies. For example, you will:

• Operate and develop IT security work within Vattenfall Vattenkraft
• Maintain a current situation picture in the IT security area and communicate it to relevant stakeholders
• Conduct IT security audits and reviews of new and existing IT systems
• Interpret regulations and requirements in the field and ensure compliance
• Participate in supporting system owners and information owners in IT security classifications of systems
• Managing, reporting and following up incidents
• Collaborate with IT specialists from Vattenfall's other companies and business units, participate in group-wide networks, such as IT security forums where you represent Vattenfall Vattenkraft.

You will continuously collaborate with, among others, IT project managers, IT architects, OT security specialists, information security coordinators (BISO) and both internal and external suppliers.

Your background

You have a post-secondary education in, for example, computer and systems science, or other experience and training that we consider equivalent, as well as current experience of working in IT security.

We are looking for you with knowledge and experience in some of the following areas:

• IT security classification of systems, for example according to the CIA triad
• Security audits of IT systems
• Swedish security protection legislation, NIS or NIS2 regulation
• Requirement setting of security tests, penetration tests and similar
• Risk and vulnerability analyses linked to IT and cyber security
• Selection and customization of security controls for IT systems
• IT infrastructure, such as networks, authentication solutions, Windows and/or Linux environments, cloud services.

Merits can be:

• Experience in educating, informing and creating understanding of IT security in your own organization
• Formal further education in IT security
• Relevant certifications, such as CISSP
• Experience with ISO27001
• Experience of working with OT security, knowledge of IEC 62443.

We would like to see that you have worked with IT security in a larger organization and that you are motivated by analyzing and improving. You are self-driven, get things done and are driven by results and clear benefits for the business. Your approach is characterized by being attentive, proactive and wanting to understand causes and connections.

You have good communication and collaboration skills, you speak and write both Swedish and English. Travel in the service occurs, B-driving license is a requirement.

Current locations

Luleå, Sundsvall, Umeå or Jokkmokk

Contact persons

For questions about the position, please contact the recruiting manager Daniel Gotthold. Union representatives are Anneli Jönsson Ledarna, Samuel Jernlif Unionen, Magnus Nilsson Akademikerna and Anders Karlström SEKO. All can be reached via Vattenfall's switchboard, 08-739 50 00.

Join us and lead the way towards change

To realize the goal of a fossil-free life, we need to harness different perspectives, experiences and skills. We need thinkers, creators, developers, problem solvers and a wide range of other roles with one thing in common - that you bring your unique talent and unleash your superpowers to the team. We work towards our common goal in a first-class work environment where everyone feels equal and included.

Welcome with your application via our ad on Vattenfall's career pages no later than October 27, 2024.

We look forward to your application!

We are convinced that diversity helps build a more profitable and appealing company and strive to be good role models when it comes to diversity. Vattenfall works actively to ensure that all employees have the same opportunities and rights regardless of age, ethnic or cultural background, gender identity and expression, religion/belief, sexual orientation or disability.

Vattenfall Vattenkraft is part of Sweden's critical infrastructure, so many of our positions are security classified. If the position you are applying for is security classified, in accordance with the Security Protection Act, a register check and security interview will be conducted before employment.

Vattenfall Vattenkraft is responsible for Vattenfall's 90 hydropower plants and about 300 dams in the Nordic region. We are about 500 employees in Sweden and Finland with headquarters in Luleå. Hydropower's renewable electricity production is a prerequisite for creating a climate-smart and fossil-free society where we play an important role as an enabler for the sustainable energy system of the future.Our production corresponds to about 25% of Sweden's total electricity needs. To deliver high availability in our production, we need to constantly challenge ourselves, develop our working methods and take advantage of digital opportunities.