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Senior System Security Specialist

IAEAVienna, Austria
Category | Grade:Professional | P-4Deadline:11 Aug 2026Job ID:2026/0313 (012384)Posted on:28 Jul 2026
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Overview

The Senior System Security Specialist leads security-control design for IAEA Safeguards systems in Vienna. The role guides a technical team, develops policy and risk criteria, evaluates architectures and secures identity, authorization, software and network services that protect classified or higher information.

Department: SGIS – Development Section

Languages

Required: English

Desired: Another official IAEA language

Minimum Experience

7 years

Estimated Salary

Not available

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and development of security controls across software products and services
  • Advise on information security policy, strategy and vulnerability reduction
  • Develop security-risk measurement criteria
  • Evaluate technical architectures and application-security compliance
  • Lead identity and access management security solutions
  • Build consensus with Member States and multidisciplinary development teams

Requirements

  • Advanced degree in computer science, information systems or engineering, or bachelor’s degree plus two years of additional relevant experience
  • At least seven years of relevant experience across the listed expertise areas
  • At least five years of computer programming in a service-oriented environment
  • At least three years of identity and access management development
  • At least three years of network engineering experience
  • Excellent written and spoken English

Skills

Information securityIdentity and access managementSecure codingSecurity architectureRisk assessmentSoftware engineeringNetwork engineeringTechnical leadershipStakeholder communication

Tools

ASP.NETHTML5JavaScriptAgile methodsDevOps

Additional info

  • This is a four-month development reassignment open under IAEA staff mobility procedures
  • The assignment may be extended