Individual Consultancy – Cybersecurity Consultant

The UNICC workforce consists of many diverse nationalities, cultures, languages, and opinions. UNICC seeks to sustain and strengthen this diversity by ensuring equal opportunity and an inclusive working environment for its entire workforce. Applications are encouraged from all qualified candidates without distinction on grounds of race, ethnicity, sex, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.

Background information:

UNICC requires an experienced cybersecurity consultant for the implementation and support of ongoing and new projects. The consultant will report to the head of Cybersecurity Architecture and IAM (CSA) or its delegate. The resource will collaborate with developers, project managers, and other stakeholders to ensure cybersecurity best practices and UNICC policies, standards, and guidelines are incorporated into the projects and solutions.

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Provide security architecture consulting and advisory support
• Design, implement and manage secure cloud-based solutions for UNICC and its partners
• Provide architecture and security assessment for cloud-based infrastructure and solutions
• Assess requirements and identify technical alignment between needs and analytical solution
• Provide security guidance for DevOps and DevSecOps environments
• As per the needs of the team, work with other functional teams to implement scalable and maintainable cloud-based solutions.
• Under guidance, provide security consultancy to UNICC client organizations in various areas including security architecture, cloud deployments, network architecture, application deployment and security operations
• Design and implementation of secure cloud architectures for public, private, and hybrid Cloud based systems within Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or similar cloud providers
• Perform security assessment of modern and complex technologies like microservices, blockchain, cognitive services, big data technologies
• Collaborate in processes related to end-to-end architecture, design and engineering plan, based on the requirements
• As per the needs of the team, collaborate with other teams in the Cybersecurity and IT operations division
• Prepare security assessment reports for executives based on business risks and requirements

Recruitment Profile

Experience and Skills required:

Essential:

• At least five (5) years of engineering experience with cloud-based services
• Strong understanding of application development lifecycle like DevOps, DevSecOps, CI/CD
• Strong understanding of cloud federation and modern application integrations
• Experience architecting Cloud solutions which span storage, security, networking, and compute capabilities
• Knowledge and experience with attack simulation, vulnerability management and application testing
• Strong background in Networking, Identity and access management
• Strong knowledge of various security operational services and tools like firewalls, IPS, WAF, SIEM, Content filtering and application whitelisting
• Good understanding of at least one of the following enterprise Identity and access management solutions, Azure Active Directory, AWS identity management solution
• Good understanding of various cybersecurity processes like vulnerability management, patch management, incident, and problem management, etc.
• Strong scripting knowledge and experience
• Good understanding of latest technologies at least two from the list: cognitive services, hybrid cloud solutions, blockchain solutions, microservices, data lakes, etc.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated background in deploying highly secure solutions
• Experience with risk assessment methods and security assessment processes

Desirable:

• Experience developing integrations and automation
• Experience working with various CI/CD tools
• Familiarity with Atlassian Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket
• AWS or Azure security controls and tools

Education*:

Essential:

• First university degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IS or related

Desirable:

• Advanced university degree with focus in information (technology)

Languages:

• English: Expert knowledge is required

UNICC Global Competencies:

• Teamwork: Develops and promotes effective relationships with colleagues and team members. Deals constructively with conflicts.
• Communicating: Expresses oneself clearly in conversations and interactions with others; listens actively. Produces effective written communications. Ensures that information is shared.
• Producing results: Produces and delivers quality results. Is action oriented and committed to achieving outcomes.
• Moving forward in a changing environment: Is open to and proposes new approaches and ideas. Adapts and responds positively to change.
• Knowing and managing yourself: Manages ambiguity and pressure in a self-reflective way. Uses criticism as a development opportunity. Seeks opportunities for continuous learning and professional growth.

Other Information

Compensation:

Fee will be based either on the National Officer salary scales or the Individual Consultancy band levels (for Headquarters)

• National Officer Salary Scale
• For headquarters, Individual Consultancy band levels will be used

UNICC also offers generous leave and absence allowances, flexible working hours, overtime compensation, teleworking, access to training, and depending on eligibility other benefits such as relocation grant, dependency allowance, language allowance, or education grant.

Closing date for applications:

Applications will be accepted until midnight (Geneva Time) on 19 July 2023.

Notes:

• Technical and/or personality tests may be carried out as part of the selection process
• Only short-listed candidates will be contacted
• Though you may not be selected for this advertised position, the UNICC will keep your application in a roster if your profile is deemed to be of potential interest for the Centre. You may thus be solicited by our HR department to participate in an interview for another position

The UNICC workforce consists of many diverse nationalities, cultures, languages, and opinions. UNICC seeks to sustain and strengthen this diversity by ensuring equal opportunity and an inclusive working environment for its entire workforce. Applications are encouraged from all qualified candidates without distinction on grounds of race, ethnicity, sex, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.