SSC Space

Cyber Security Operations Specialist

SSC Space  •  Solna, SE (Hybrid)  •  4 hours ago
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Job Description

Cyber Security Operations Specialist

Help defend SSC against modern cyber threats

Cybersecurity Operations is a rapidly growing capability within SSC.

As our security maturity increases, we are expanding our ability to detect threats, respond to incidents, improve visibility, and strengthen resilience across the organization.

We are looking for a Cyber Security Operations Specialist who wants to play an active role in defending the organization while helping build modern security operations capabilities.

This role combines hands-on security operations with the opportunity to influence the future development of our cybersecurity function.

Key Responsibilities

Security Monitoring

  • Monitor and investigate security alerts and events
  • Improve detection quality and operational visibility
  • Strengthen monitoring processes and procedures
  • Collaborate with external SOC providers

Incident Response

  • Participate in preparation, investigation, containment, recovery, and lessons learned activities
  • Support security incident coordination and communication
  • Contribute to playbooks and response procedures

Threat Hunting & Detection

  • Perform proactive threat hunting activities
  • Identify indicators of compromise and suspicious behaviors
  • Improve detection use cases and monitoring coverage
  • Develop and tune detection rules

Threat Intelligence

  • Analyze relevant threat intelligence
  • Assess emerging threats and attack techniques
  • Support risk-based prioritization of defensive efforts
  • Share intelligence insights across the organization

Vulnerability Management

  • Support vulnerability identification and prioritization
  • Collaborate with infrastructure and engineering teams
  • Improve remediation processes and reporting

Security Operations Development

  • Contribute to new operational capabilities
  • Improve automation and investigation workflows
  • Support security tooling enhancements
  • Participate in developing the future SecOps function

Why consider this role?

  • What makes this role stand out?
  • Work on real security events and investigations
  • Influence how security operations capabilities are built and improved
  • Collaborate with external SOC providers and internal stakeholders
  • Develop expertise across threat hunting, monitoring, detection engineering, and incident response
  • Join a growing security team with significant long-term ambitions
  • Move beyond alert handling and help shape the security program
  • Your mission
  • As Cyber Security Operations Specialist, you will strengthen SSC's ability to identify, understand, contain, and respond to cyber threats.
  • You will work across monitoring, investigation, incident response, vulnerability management, and threat intelligence, helping SSC continuously improve its defensive capabilities.

Who we are looking for

You are curious, analytical, and passionate about cybersecurity.

You enjoy investigating security events, understanding attacker behavior, and continuously improving defensive capabilities. You have a strong technical foundation but also understand that security success depends on collaboration and communication.

You are looking for a role where you can grow beyond traditional SOC operations and contribute to building a mature internal cybersecurity capability.

What we believe you bring

  • University degree or equivalent practical experience
  • Experience within Security Operations, Incident Response, Threat Hunting, or Detection Engineering
  • Strong understanding of cybersecurity concepts and defensive technologies
  • Experience working with SIEM, EDR, and monitoring solutions
  • Ability to investigate and understand security incidents
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Effective communication and collaboration abilities
  • Desire to continuously learn and develop

Salary

This is an opportunity to join SSC's cybersecurity journey at an exciting stage. You will help build modern security operations capabilities, work on meaningful security challenges, and contribute directly to the protection of systems and services that support SSC's mission around the world.

SSC Space

About SSC Space

SSC Space (former Swedish Space Corporation) is a leading global provider of advanced space services, with more than 50 years of experience. We help space organizations, research institutes, commercial and institutional actors from all over the world to get access to space.

With local presence on all continents and about 750 committed employees, we offer specialist expertise in satellite communications and satellite control services, spacecraft operations, rocket and balloon systems, launch services and flight test services, as well as engineering, operations and consultancy services for space missions.

We enable successful space projects within Earth observation, telecommunications, security, meteorology, navigation and positioning, scientific research and other applications.

Among our strongest assets are Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden, set out to be a leading provider of satellite launch services from mainland Europe, as well as one of the world’s largest commercial ground station networks for satellite communications.

Industry
Unknown
Company Size
501-1,000 employees
Headquarters
Solna, SE
Year Founded
1972
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