Cybersecurity Engineer

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Do you have a passion for innovative ideas and groundbreaking discoveries? With over $1 billion invested annually in R&D, at Thermo Fisher Scientific you’ll help tackle some of the world’s toughest challenges, from giving cancer patients hope, ensuring safe drinking water and helping law enforcement address cases through forensics. We empower our teams to put science into action and give our R&D colleagues the autonomy, resources and tools they need to take science a step beyond.

This position is based in Uppsala, where Thermo Fisher develops, manufactures, and markets complete blood test systems to support the clinical diagnosis and monitoring of allergy, asthma and autoimmune diseases. With 1,900 employees worldwide, and 1,000 in Sweden, we are the global leader in in-vitro allergy testing and the European leader in autoimmunity diagnostics.

See how our R&D professionals in Sweden are enjoying our innovative work atmosphere and the role they are playing in helping humankind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW6AYxC4l10

Discover Impactful Work

If you’re passionate about security, secure development, and proactive threat mitigation, we encourage you to apply! We are strengthening our cybersecurity team within product development, and you will play a key role for continuously improving product security for our diagnostic devices. We can offer you an exciting and rewarding career where you will get an opportunity to develop your technical and professional skills in one of the world's largest life science companies.

A day in the Life

As a Cybersecurity engineer at Thermo Fisher, you will mainly work with identifying threats and vulnerabilities in systems and software, and implementing measures to defend against hacking, malware and ransomware, insider threats and all types of cybercrime. You could, for example:

• Design, develop, and maintain security tools for hardening and patching critical platforms

• Support product cybersecurity activities, including threat modeling, security risk assessments, and vulnerability management.

• Support to ensure compliance with global cybersecurity regulations and standards.

• Provide specifications of product requirements, to include authentication, authorization, encryption standards, event detection and logging, updatability, patchability, and protect sensitive data

• Drive and implement the strategy for securing Windows-based platforms, aligning with industry standards.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to address system and network security requirements, implementing effective controls to safeguard data and systems.

• Assist with the preparation of training materials and user instructions for personnel involved with the security and deployment of our laboratory products and system.

Keys to Success

To succeed in this role, you are agile, resilient, and take ownership of your development. You never compromise on quality and always act responsibly remembering that our customers always come first. You speak and write excellent English.

We operate in a heavily regulated industry, so it is important that you have a structured way of working. You are a great teammate who finds it easy to collaborate and you enjoy leading and motivating your team members.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is a global company, and you will be working in a team that wants to have fun at work while supporting each other to build phenomenal products.

Education

• Preferred education level: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related fields. Graduate degree is desirable.

Experience

• At least 3 years of work experience as a security engineer or equivalent role

• Strong understanding of secure software development lifecycle

• Solid experience in application security for Windows platforms

• Software development using C#, .NET and SQL Server

• Familiarity with system and network security tools such as firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and vulnerability scanners

• Familiarity with medical/in-vitro-diagnostic equipment, associated software and common deployment models

• Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies and CI/CD pipelines is an added advantage

• Knowledge of PowerShell and scripting languages, e.g. Python, Ruby, or Perl

• Experience as DevSecOps Engineer or certification as an Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) are great merits

Work Environment

You will work from our office in Uppsala, Sweden with possibility for remote work in line with our policies.

Benefits

Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment within an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. Our company culture stands up for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation! We believe it is not only the salary that matters when you decide to take up employment with us. We also offer attractive benefits, together with a meaningful purpose and an exciting working environment where you can truly develop your potential. We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus and healthcare benefits.

Apply now!

We review applications on an ongoing basis and the position may be filled before the final application date — we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.