Secure by Design Expert

Aggregate function:  Shared Services
Business Area:  Technology _VOIS
Posting Country:  Romania
Date Posted:  4 Aug 2025
Full Time / Part Time:  Full Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

Your day to Day

  • You will act as the interface between the technical disciplines and the business to carry out technically orientated security assessments, setting security requirements for products and services, and assessing compliance against agreed security requirements, policies and standards. The Secure by Design Manager also has an important advisory role across the business and is required to provide security design and architecture guidance as well as general consultancy, acts as coach to agile projects and programme teams to ensure that future infrastructures or products for Vodafone globally are secure.
  • In this role you will act as Secure by Design representative and support the MPN product evolution and Cloud resell programmes in Vodafone by providing security expertise.

With these activities you will have a great impact on our business

  • Impact on the business – You  will provide that our networks and infrastructure are secure by design and will meet an appropriate technology security level, and demonstrate that all potential risks are being mitigated to an acceptable level to in order to assure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of systems and data.
  • Customers, supplier and third parties – provide advice and guidance to internal and external customers on security related matters.  Define, communicate and ensure that suppliers and third Impact on the business – This role will provide that our networks and infrastructure are secure by design and will meet an appropriate technology security level, and demonstrate that all potential risks are being mitigated to an acceptable level to in order to assure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of systems and data.
  • Customers, supplier and third parties – provide advice and guidance to internal and external customers on security related matters.  Define, communicate and ensure that suppliers and third parties understand and comply with Vodafone’s security standards.
  • Leadership and teamwork – Leadership and teamwork are essential this role, the Secure by Design manager needs to work closely with the business and technology architecture teams, design and operations teams, and with the other security teams e.g. Risk & Compliance, Ethical Hacking, Security Operations, and Corporate Security. The role holder will also be required to manage external resource and coach Security Champions in the agile teams.
  • Innovation and change – This person will help change the perception that security is an inhibiter, and work to demonstrate that security can be a business differentiator by enabling the business with secure by design for its products and services.
  • Communication –Must have ability to communicate security requirements and risks to all levels of the business. The experience to explain complex technical matters to non-technical business executives is crucial. The role, is expected to give clear guidance for implementing security controls in complex environments.

With these skills you are a great candidate

  • You have profound professional experience in information technology, Cyber security as well as experience with security in agile ways of working, DevSecOps.
  • Good knowledge/experience with mobile network technologies like 5G and 6G as well as cloud and virtualisation implementations.
  • University degree in Information Security or equivalent
  • Radio network expertise
  • One or more of the following: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, GIAC, TOGAF, SABSA or equivalent
  • 5+ years work experience in the field of cyber security

Sounds like the perfect job? We’ve got even more to offer:

•Work from Home – hybrid approach 

•Medical and dental services 

•Life and hospitalizationinsurance 

•Dedicated employee phone subscription 

•Special discounts for gyms and retailers 

•Annual Company Bonus 

•Ongoing Education – we continuously invest in you to ensure you have everything needed to excel on the job and enhance your skills  

•You get to work with tried and trusted web-technology 

•Getting in on the ground floor of a technology changing company 

•We let you write your own story by planning vacations: go for a trip, experience new things, have fun and enjoy your 23 days off.

•Special Paternal Program - 4 months of paid paternity leave 

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Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.