Security Architect

ING Office of the CISO focuses on cybersecurity steering, threat & vulnerability management, and response. We translate key risks, business requirements and applicable laws & legislations into architectures and accompanying enterprise-wide security programmes to achieve ING's strategic objectives, while delivering threat detection and response services to the ING organization on a global level.

The objective of the Security Architecture department is to ensure that IT strategy and cybersecurity implementations are aligned on an ongoing basis considering applicable technology solutions, good practices, risk appetite and cost targets. As such the department delivers both conceptual designs as well as technical/physical designs in close consultation with DevOps engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Leading the design, providing guidance, and performing verification of architecture implementation on global programmes, specifically:
  • Network security
  • Access security
  • Cloud security (mostly on Azure and Google)
• Assessing security design and operations of network security
• Developing (network) security norms and controls for the cloud, preferably in a security-as-code formats
• Architecture artefacts lead and delivery
• Formulating and testing hypotheses and drawing conclusions to determine appropriate security solutions/services for ING in a global perspective
• Designing architecture on conceptual and logical levels ensuring the optimal match between technology, fit-to-infrastructure (feasibility of deployment), costs, user acceptance, measurability, and flexibility/scalability together with a virtual team of domain and enterprise architects
• Specifically designing key components that must be enforced and can be measured automatically
• Maintaining and updating the Global Architecture/Security Standard taking relevant (technological, organisational) changes into consideration as well as keeping pace with innovations and trends in the industry/market

How To Succeed:

• Fluent in technical and conceptual aspects of cybersecurity, specifically on Network Security, Access security & Cloud Security
• Background in exact science
• Insight and experience in the implementation of desired structural network security solutions at large corporates
• Expert knowledge network and access protocols
• Furthermore, the following personal profile:
• Ability to take ownership and responsibility
• Excellent analytical skills and a clear way of expressing abstract concepts
• Experience in producing and presenting security architectures on a conceptual to physical level
• Experience in effective communication on the management level
• Excellent writing & reporting skills in English
• Determination to continuously develop your (technical) expertise and knowledge
• Willingness to travel (up to 25%, mainly in Europe)

Rewards and benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions at https://www.ing.jobs/netherlands/Why-ING/benefits.htm

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us. Apply today.

Questions?

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Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.