Cybersecurity Architect

Mission:

As part of the Security discipline of the Engineering group of THALES Belgium, the Cybersecurity Engineer for Cryptography Projects will be responsible to define systems and solutions with customers, support their development and their integration into their target environment.

The Cybersecurity Engineer for Cryptography Projects needs to be a technical passionate. Based on their existing background in IT, telecommunication systems and/or cybersecurity, they will be eager to discover new technologies to continuously expand and reinforce their expertise in these fields.  They will put their expertise at the service of both the security-centric projects of the Security discipline and the secure-by-design aspects of the projects lead by the other disciplines of the company.

Main Responsibilities:

• Understand and analyze the customer’s needs;
• Find the best solution and lead the architecture definition to meet the customer requirements;
• Interface with the customer, for the technical related aspects of the solution;
• Bring state of the art expertise for their field of expertise, specialty or domain;
• Take the lead in the system specification and design process, in strong cooperation with all the required technical and non-technical skills involved (e.g. hardware, software, security, quality, maintenance);
• Lead the Make/Team/Buy decision process and support the subcontractor choice for needed subsystem acquisition;
• Be in charge of the technical documentation (e.g. High Level Design, Low Level Design, Configuration Documents, User Manuals, Testing plan);
• Support the teams responsible for the implementation and testing of the solution by providing technical expertise on various aspects of the product under development, ensuring the development goals are met and the traceability from the user requirements to the final tests is maintained.
• Support the sales and marketing teams by providing internal and external technical pre-sales support for the solutions under the responsibility of the Security discipline.

Profile:

• Engineering degree in Telecommunications and/or Cybersecurity.
• At least 5 years of professional experience in the conception of cybersecurity equipment (devices), such as embedded security systems (Formal requirements writing, design definition, translation into testing activities).
• At least 3 years of professional experience on at least three of the following topics:
  • System architecture using model-based system engineering methodology.
  • Development and certification under a cybersecurity certification framework such as Common Criteria.
  • Architecture or deployment of cybersecurity solutions in any domain (e.g. firewalls, anti-DDOS, risk management, …).
  • Architecture and troubleshooting of IP networks, including IPv6.
  • Packaging, deployment and/or troubleshooting of Linux in the context of embedded systems.
• Nice to have:
  • Experience with one or more of the following tools: Capella, Doors, Polarion, Jira, BitBucket, LaTeX.
  • Experience in the design of cryptography-centric solutions.
  • Consulting and advisory experience with demonstrated skills in translating business requirements to technical solutions.
  • Experience with technical and governance constraints related to classified information handling, especially in a crypto-related context.
  • Cybersecurity risk assessment using any standardized methodology, preferably EBIOS.
  • Experience with internal and external knowledge sharing through in-person seminars, webinars and/or whitepapers redaction.
• Eager to work with multiple, diverse technical integrations, technologies and processing environments.
• Passion for technologies, continuous education and problem solving.
• Good communication skills, both verbally and written.

•    Fluent in French or Dutch; fluent in English (professional capacity).

• Customer satisfaction and results oriented.

Andreea Paljanos, Talent Acquisition Partner