Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) Officer

Group IT is a cross-border organization with 1500 IT employees spread across all home markets, located in Stockholm Umeå, Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius. Group IT is responsible for IT management in ensuring the long-term focus of IT and adaptation to the bank's business strategies. Last but not least, Group IT deliver a range of IT services to the bank, including development and maintenance.

Swedbank is the bank for the many. As an employer we favour inclusion, support workforce diversity and are leading in gender equality. We welcome all applicants regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion or other conviction, age, gender identity or expression, sexual preference, or disability. To find out more about Swedbank as an employer, visit swedbank.com/work-with-us

About the job In the role as SIRT Officer you would be responsible to handle IT security incidents to minimize their impact to avoid escalation to crisis, both hands-on and as an advisor.

You will be interacting and collaborating both cross borders and across organizational dimensions, within the bank as well as externally.

The SIRT Officers are acting with high integrity and escalate risk issues where the risk/reward tradeoffs are not appropriate.

On-call duties should be expected on a rotating basis in schedule less than a week a month.

What you need to succeed You have a track record in IT security or incident response
You can keep several tasks running in parallel, able to work whenever there's no clear ruling available, under stressful conditions and are able to perform under pressure to deadlines
You are passionate about what you do; show initiative, and are a strong team player, preferably with cross-border experience
Good verbal and written communication skills in English are a necessity
General experience, with deep knowledge of at least one is needed: Windows, Linux, computer networks, forensics, log analysis, and network traffic analysis

An advantage would be given to candidates experienced in Java or Python, OSINT, malware reverse engineering, DevOps, large scale installations.

What you may have worked with previously Security incident response
Security Operations Center
System engineering,
Threat intelligence

Potential next steps in your career after this job IT Security Architect,
Information security manager
Chief Information Security Officer

Why work with us? This is an opportunity to use all your knowledge in IT security. Because incidents... Well, they happen.

If you join us, you are going to be a part of a curious team that likes dig deep in the problem to solve incidents. We have fun at work by getting exciting challenges, working in teams, and sharing ideas and knowledge with each other.

We invite you to work in a systemically important financial services provider in Sweden, and the Baltic countries.

Swedbank SIRT is a Trusted Introducer accredited team.

We may begin the selection under the application period, so we welcome your application as soon as possible.

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