Cybersecurity Bid Technical Manager

Req ID:483691 

At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, more than 80 000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.

One of the challenges faced by the railway sector is to consider cybersecurity within their solutions.

Alstom proposes to its customers a wide range of secured solutions and services.

A technical cybersecurity bid technical manager, your main goal will be to propose fit for purpose secured solutions, in accordance with the last regulations and best practices

Job description

The Railway industry today is characterized by both a strong and sustained growth across the world. The trends that drive this are well known: environmental challenges, population growth, urbanization and increasing demands for mobility. With 17B€ of Sales and over 84,000 employees based in 64 countries, Alstom develop & market the most complete range of systems, equipment and services offered today in the railway sector. Today we offer our customers solutions that feature a seamless blend of diverse technologies, ensuring optimal interfaces, along with flexible implementation and real synergy in innovation

INTRODUCTION

Alstom develops & markets the most complete range of systems, equipment and services offered today in the railway sector. Today we offer our customers solutions that feature a seamless blend of diverse technologies, ensuring optimal interfaces, along with flexible implementation and real synergy in innovation.

One of the challenges faced by the railway sector is to consider cybersecurity within their solutions: Railway systems, as with most Industrial Automation Control Systems (IACS), have been considered immune to cyber security threats and attacks for years. Nevertheless, the increase of interconnected and digitalized assets in the railway sector, the parallel increase of cyber-crime targeting IACS and the adoption by the EC of the Cybersecurity Resilience Act have driven the need for a coordinated approach to cybersecurity implementation.

Title Of The Role

Mainline Cybersecurity Bid Technical Manager

Overall Purpose Of The Role

The Cybersecurity Bid Technical Manager will manage cybersecurity of the mainline tenders under the responsibility of the platform and Regional Cybersecurity Director.

The primary responsibilities of the Cybersecurity Bid Technical Manager are:

• For the cybersecurity technical proposal:
  • To identify and analyse the technical cybersecurity cyber requirements from the tender and from the local cybersecurity regulations and standards.
  • To assign the identified cybersecurity requirements to the project, architecture, solutions and sub-contractors.
  • To design a secure architecture to meet the customer security objectives.
  • To allocate the technical cybersecurity requirements to the different sub-systems and perform a clause-by-clause analysis.
  • To identify gaps and propose technical solutions for the Alstom sub-systems.
  • To cascade the cybersecurity requirements to the different sub-contractor.
  • To evaluate and validate the answers of the sub-contractors to the cybersecurity requirements.
  • To optimise the cybersecurity technical proposal in terms of cost efficiency.
• For tender management:
  • To liaise with the Bid Technical Manager to select the most appropriate solution and strategy for cybersecurity.
  • To coordinate with the different Alstom programs and Alstom cybersecurity platform teams to provide the most efficient solution in terms of quality, delay and costs.
  • To coordinate the different stakeholders to provide all inputs to the central bid team in due time.
  • To prepare the Cybersecurity Technical Design Reviews.
  • To identify and estimate technical risk for cybersecurity implementation.
  • To support the local bid team to write the Alstom technical proposal.
  • To build and maintain a reference library for mainline tenders.

Technical Competencies & Experience

To be considered for this role, the candidate needs to demonstrate the following skills experience and attributes:

• Master’s degree in Engineering/Technology or related field
• Strong interest for Cybersecurity
• Experience related to Cybersecurity in general, deployment experience of security technologies, or technical experience in design and deployment of mainline signalling systems.
• Experience with direct responsibility for hands on architecture, design, development
• Architecture concepts and techniques of systems, communication networks and security hardening.
• Strong analytical skills with demonstrated ability for problem solving and solution optimization.
• Creativity and ability to work in a complex environment.
• Proven planning, prioritization and organizational skills.
• Professional & concise communication (written & verbal).

At Alstom we offer you the opportunity to unleash your potential and reinvent yourself. As a future employee, you will have a unique opportunity to drive our organization forward, while continuing to build your career and contribute to the expanding growth of the global railway industry. More information about Alstom can be found at: www.alstom.com

You don’t need to be a train enthusiast to thrive with us. We guarantee that when you step onto one of our trains with your friends or family, you’ll be proud. If you’re up for the challenge, we’d love to hear from you!

Important to note

As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63  countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone.