Senior Corporate Security Engineer​/Security Officer; EU

Senior Corporate Security Engineer/Security Officer (EU)

Work with cutting edge

AI technology, making the world a safer and more secure place. Drone Shield (ASX:

DRO) offers an opportunity to solve some of world’s most challenging technical problems in the rapidly growing counter drone sector.

Ourcustomersaremilitaries, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure, law enforcement and many others.

With one of the largest listed defence company market capitalisations in Australia, part of the ASX
200 index,and having raised approximately $250m in 2024 alone, Drone Shield is undergoing hypergrowth stage, fuelled by rapidly increasing use of drones for nefarious applications, from battlefield, to terrorism, to contraband delivery and commercial espionage.

About the role

Drone Shield is seeking a multi-talented, hands-on Senior Corporate Security and IT Engineer to join our growing Amsterdam office. Reporting to the Chief Information Security Officer, this role will be a key position within Drone Shield’s global security team. The position will have a strong security focus (approximately 80%), complemented by IT responsibilities (around 20%), supporting ISO 27001 and ABDO 2019 compliance and certification across our EU and global operations.

The Security team is a nimble team responsible for protecting Drone Shield's assets and users. Our adversaries are sophisticated and use state-of-the-art tooling. To protect Drone Shield, we need to focus on the biggest risks, eliminate threats, focus on automation to scale our efforts and continually increase the cost for the attackers.

Working with the Global Security and IT teams, key responsibilities for this role include owning and improving our existing corporate solutions, vulnerability management, and partnering with Detection & Response team. This role will also be influencing controls on office networks, and remote access for our internal infrastructure.

Corporate Security should be viewed as a partnership with IT and Detection & Response, with each team enabling each other to be more effective. IT builds the foundational tools for asset management and internal services, Corporate Security automates deployment of security controls and enables telemetry, so that Detection & Response can create detections and playbooks to respond to incidents effectively.

In this role, you will have a diverse range of responsibilities.

This role requires experience with or intimate knowledge of the Governance and Operations of ABDO 2019. The ideal candidate will have undergone an ABDO audit and certification process prior.

Strong communication skills and being a hands-on engineer are a must have.

Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations

• Ensure secure design and operations of the Corporate IT network and all End User Computing devicesin the EU Office
• Ensure compliance with
  
  Drone Shield Security  Polices and best practice
• Lead the initiative to obtain ABDO 2019 certification and be part of ISO 27001 annual certification activities
• Continue to secure
  
  Microsoft Tennant, M365 and Identity Access Management including Privileged access
• Participate in global security
  
  Detection and Response processes
• Lead orassistin incident response efforts including containment,eradicationand recovery
• Have a broadunderstanding of new and emerging technologies and associated vulnerabilities to help mitigate against them.
• Implement and review security practices used within the organisation.
• IT Support and provisioningfor a small office;andalsobe able to manage a satellite office network when required
• Follow Global Physical Security standards for the local office
• Manage vendor relationships and engagementswherenecessary
• Participate in Global IT and Security teaminitiatives.

Qualifications, Experience and Skills

• BS degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience
• Demonstrated experience working in IT with focus on security tooling
• On-the-tools engineering experience – must be hands-on
• Excellent communication skills to explain complex technical concepts
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in related roles. Roles could…