Security Officer - Classified Information; Greece

Role highlights:

• Security Officer - Classified Information
• Location:
  
  Athens, Greece
• Department: ICEYE, Greece
• Reports to:
  
  CEO, ICEYE Greece with a dotted-line reporting to ICEYE Global Security function
• Employment type:
  
  Permanent
• Workplace model:
  Office
• Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO, where required)

As the Security Offer - you will build and own the security posture — physical, network, and regulatory — that lets ICEYE's Greek manufacturing facility operate as a nationally cleared site for high-throughput satellite production.

This is a role for a builder; someone that is confident in defining, maintaining and communicating the security framework that enables ICEYE’s continued growth and meeting our obligations to our customers. You will design the physical and network security architecture, drive the facility and personnel clearance process with Greek Ministry of Defense authorities, and build the operational discipline that keeps it defensible over time.

ICEYE is the world leader in sovereign intelligence from space. We deliver persistent monitoring capabilities to detect and respond to changes in any location on Earth.

ICEYE owns the world's largest and most advanced SAR (synthetic aperture radar) satellite constellation. To our customers we provide intelligence with unmatched quality, latency and revisit times, in any weather, day or night. To governments who choose to operate their own constellation we provide this proven capability as a sovereign system.

ICEYE-built constellations serve customers in defence and intelligence, environmental monitoring, insurance and emergency management. We enable fast decisions that contribute to a safer future.

Founded and headquartered in Finland, ICEYE operates globally with over 1000 employees across Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

• Own the roadmap. Define and execute the twelve-month plan to take ICEYE Greece from current state to fully cleared operations at the required national classification levels including facility security clearance (e.g. EKBA
  ), personnel clearances, IT accreditation, and the operational processes that sit underneath.
• Be the appointed security officer. Act as the company's official security officer, representing ICEYE with relevant national authorities (Ministry of Defense, General Secretariat of National Security). Lead all interactions with the national industrial security / accreditation body [ GDDIA (ΓΔΑΕΕ)] and represent ICEYE Greece in front of regulators with credibility and precision.
• Build the framework. Partner with the Global Security team to implement policies, SOPs, secure areas, accreditation pathways toward higher classifications, and the audit trail that evidences this.
• Run the clearance pipeline. Be the person coordinating Personnel Security Clearances across the local organisation in close coordination with Global Security to ensure the business is ahead of programm needs.
• Enable the business. Translate security requirements and support appropriate handling of classified information for ICEYE Greece.

• Deep, hands-on knowledge of the national classified information regime: the governing legislation, regulations, and industrial security manual/handbook, and the practical workings of national security oversight for ICEYE Greece
• Track record as a security officer (or directly equivalent) inside a defense, intelligence, aerospace, or critical-infrastructure organisation. Greek experience of scaling its classification level is necessary.
• Working fluency in NATO and EU classification frameworks and how they interlock with national classification levels.
• Credibility with national authorities. You have collaborated closely with the relevant National Security, defense-procurement, and cyber/IT-security authorities in Greece
• Strong grasp of IT security accreditation paths for classified systems — the national baseline security standards, approved classified-IT regime, and formal accreditation/approval process for higher classifications.
• Fluent Greek and English
  , with the ability to…