Overview
Cyber Security Senior Officer Jobs in Lisbon Metropolitan Area at QuickOps Consulting
Title: Cyber Security Senior Officer
Company: QuickOps Consulting
Location: Lisbon Metropolitan Area
🚀 We are looking for a Cyber Security Senior Officer!
Main Tasks:
- Identify, assess, and prioritize cyber risk across the IT project portfolio and production environments, ensuring alignment with security policies, ISO 27001/27005, ISO 31000 and other relevant standards.
- Design end to end security architectures (network, application, data & cloud) that embed security controls from the outset. Produce security blueprints, reference architectures, and hardened configuration baselines.
- Act as the primary security advisor to IT delivery teams, product owners, and business units. Translate technical security requirements into clear, actionable guidance for non-technical stakeholders.
- Review security deliverables (risk assessments, threat models, test results, architecture diagrams) submitted by security analysts and engineering teams. Conduct independent security assessments and provide remediation road maps.
- Lead deep dive analyses of complex, cloud centric security scenarios (multi cloud, IaC, containers, serverless). Define cloud specific controls, tooling (CSP native, CSPM/CSA, secret management) and integration patterns.
- Identify gaps in existing security processes and champion continuous improvement initiatives. Leverage AI/ML tools (automated threat intel enrichment, anomaly detection, code review assistants) to increase efficiency and accuracy of security reviews.
- Conduct security workshops, trainings and “security champion” programs across the organization. Contribute to the internal security knowledge base and best practice documentation.
Technical Skills:
- CISSP certification – mandatory. Additional certifications such as CISA, CCSP, AWS/Azure/GCP Security Specialty are a plus.
- Minimum 8 years of progressive experience in cyber security, with at least 4 years in a security architecture or senior advisory role. Proven track record delivering security for large scale, cloud native banking or financial services projects.
- Deep knowledge of ISO/IEC 27000 series, ISO 27005, ISO 31000 and familiarity with NIST CSF or equivalent frameworks.
- Strong understanding of application, data, and infrastructure architecture (micro services, APIs, container orchestration, zero trust networks).
- Hands on experience securing AWS, Azure and/or GCP environments (IAM, networking, encryption, secure CI/CD pipelines).
- Familiarity with vulnerability management, SIEM, DLP, CSPM/CSA, SAST/DAST and IAM governance tools.
- Understanding of investment banking services, regulatory expectations (PSD2, GDPR, PCI DSS) and the typical threat landscape.
- Experience evaluating or integrating AI based security solutions (threat intel bots, automated risk scoring, code analysis assistants).
📍 Workplace: Lisbon or Porto
🏢 Work model: 2/3x a week at the office
📩 Apply here or send me your updated CV to [email protected]
⚠️ Only candidates residing in Portugal will be considered.
