Cybersecurity Expert

The Jobholders will be responsible for the following tasks:

Key responsibilities pertaining to Policy Development and Implementation Unit (PDI):

• Review of Union policy and law in the field of cybersecurity in the areas of electronic identities and trust services, Once Only Initiative, privacy and data protection, resilience and security of financial entities, artifical intelligence (AI) and cloud computing;
• Assist Member States and their competent authorities to develop and implement in a consistently manner Union policy and law regarding cybersecurity by means of issuing opinions, guidelines, providing and facilitating advice and best practices on topics related to current policies (e.g. NIS Directive, eIDAS, EECC, 5G, GDPR, Once Only), as well as emerging ones (e.g. NIS Directive 2.0, AI Regulation, eIDs and Digital Wallets, DORA,);
• Contribute to the work of formally established EU Expert Groups and bodies (such as the Cooperation Group, Cooperation Network) by providing its expertise and assistance; administer communities of stakeholders and international relations in the designated competence areas;
• Organise, synthetize and prioritize data information from many different sources and according to evolving or changing circumstances;
• Deal with sensitive data and information and translate these into objective and transparent policies, provide independent opinion and analysis as well as carry out preparatory work;

Key responsibilities pertaining to Capacity Building Unit (CBU):

• Contribute to the development, implement and evaluatate National Cyber Security Strategies (NCSS);
• Support the development and implementation of cyber security exercises (tabletop, operational, technical);
• Contribute to the development as well as delivery (both online and physical) of cyber security trainings targetting different audiences ranging from technical (targeting CSIRT communities) to tacticals for members of national authorities and EU Institutions;
• Develop and organise Capture The Flag (CTF) competition including attack defence scenarios (read team blue team);
• Support  Member  States,  European Union  institutions,  bodies,  offices  and  agencies  to  improve their  capabilities  on  the  prevention,  detection,  analysis  of  and  response  to cyber  threats  and incidents;

Key responsibilities pertaining to Operational Cooperation Unit (OCU):

• Contribute to the production of cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and cyber threat situational awareness for different groups of stakeholders, including both technical and non-technical audience, using available sources of information;
• Support briefing of ENISA’s CTI and situational awareness deliverables to relevant stakeholders;
• Contribute to operational working practices of ENISA situational awareness mechanism and program;
• Manage CTI and situational awareness projects and resources according to ENISA Work Program;
• Contribute to existing cooperation and information sharing mechanisms (CyCLONe, CSIRTs Network etc) as needed;

For more information related to the tasks, eligibility requirements, selection criteria, etc. we invite you to read carefully the vacancy notice.

Please send us your applications by no later than 30/08/2021 at 16:00 CET.