About Akkodis

Akkodis is a global digital engineering company and Smart Industry leader. We enable clients to advance in their digital transformation with Talent, Academy, Consulting, and Solutions services. Our 50,000 experts combine best-in-class technologies, R&D, and deep sector know-how for purposeful innovation. We are passionate about Engineering a Smarter Future Together.

With a shared passion for technology and talent, 50,000 engineers and digital experts deliver deep cross-sector expertise in 30 countries across North America, EMEA and APAC. Akkodis offers broad industry experience, and strong know-how in key technology sectors such as mobility, software & technology services, robotics, testing, simulations, data security, AI & data analytics. The combined IT and engineering expertise brings a unique end-to-end solution offering, with four service lines - Consulting, Solutions, Talents and Academy - to support clients in rethinking their product development and business processes, improve productivity, minimize time to market and shape a smarter and more sustainable tomorrow.

Main Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Understand the security requirements and provide support for IT Security work packages in bids and projects

• Provide security consultancy to internal teams on their project's/business opportunity's security needs

• Perform security risk assessment for projects and systems and recommend appropriate mitigation measures

• Act as the technical point of contact on security matters for customers, responding to their queries and providing appropriate solutions

• Work with internal and external teams to successfully implement proposed security solutions such as host-based endpoint protection, network firewalls, SIEM, 2FA

• Perform security audit or review of a system to highlight gaps in security compliance

• Support projects' service teams in daily operations for security such as firewall administration, OS patching, and managing security incidents

Requirements:

The candidate should possess the following:

• Degree in Information Technology / Computer Science or equivalent

• Minimum five years' experience in the IT Security domain

• Minimum 5 years of working experience in at least 2 of the following domains:

• Application security
• Network security
• System security
• Data security
• Cloud security

• Experience in securing large and critical systems is an added advantage

• Ability to work alone and in a team

• Good communicator and able to build mutually beneficial relationships with customers, partners and internal teams

• Used to working in international teams (fluent English, intercultural skills)

• Readiness to work under time pressure and be able to adapt quickly to project demands

Technical skills:

• Technical hands-on expertise in firewalls, IDS/IPS, AV, IAM, or PIM preferred

• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP and network protocols, mobile technologies or virtualization will be advantageous

• Able to write simple shell scripts or Python/Perl scripts for security administration tasks

• Experience in secure system will be advantageous

• Good knowledge/experience in major Security Standards and Guidelines

• ISO 27001
• NIST
• Common Criteria
• IEC 62443