IT SWAT Engineer

Start Date: As soon as possible

End Date: End of 2026

Job Description:

We are looking for a Senior IT SWAT Engineer to join the Group Cyber Centers of Excellence (CoE). The role involves providing expert technical support to entities to help them reduce risks and close security gaps more efficiently. The IT SWAT Engineer will deliver hands-on advisory, secure configuration guidance, vulnerability remediation support, and operational best practices across key IT technologies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Vulnerability Remediation Support:

  • Assist IT teams in understanding and remediating vulnerabilities across various environments.
  • Provide practical remediation advice for patches, configuration changes, and hardening actions.
  • Validate remediation actions and confirm technical effectiveness.
• Security Configuration Advisory:
  • Offer secure configuration guidance for servers, endpoints, cloud platforms, and more.
  • Advise on hardening baselines and secure build standards.
  • Support entities in correcting misconfigurations.
• Technical Best Practices for IT Operations:
  • Advise on secure operational practices, including patching and access control.
  • Support operational teams with practical guidance.
  • Share reusable patterns and playbooks across entities.
• Incident & Urgent Exposure Support:
  • Support urgent remediation actions for critical exposures or security incidents.
  • Provide technical guidance during emergency patching.
  • Coordinate rapid response for technical exposures.
• Entity Enablement & Knowledge Transfer:
  • Coach local IT teams for independent management of issues.
  • Deliver practical workshops and document remediation patterns.
• Continuous Improvement:
  • Identify recurring technical weaknesses and recommend improvements.
  • Support the maturity evolution from reactive fixing to proactive secure operations.

Key Deliverables:

• Technical remediation guidance.

• Secure configuration recommendations.
• Remediation playbooks and checklists.
• Validation input after remediation.
• Lessons learned and recurring weakness reports.

Required Experience:

• Minimum of ten years’ experience in a similar role.

• Strong hands-on experience in IT operations, infrastructure engineering, or security engineering.
• Practical experience with vulnerability remediation and secure configuration.
• Good understanding of enterprise technologies such as Windows/Linux servers, cloud platforms, and networking.
• Experience in federated, multi-entity, or complex enterprise environments is a major bonus.

Skills & Competencies:

• Strong technical troubleshooting skills.

• Pragmatic and hands-on advisory style.
• Strong communication with infrastructure and operations teams.
• Coaching mindset to help teams improve.
• Ability to work under pressure during urgent remediation or incidents.
• Broad technology knowledge with deep technical specialization in one or more areas.

Success Measures:

• Faster remediation of critical vulnerabilities.

• Reduced recurring misconfigurations.
• Improved secure configuration maturity across entities.
• Better ability of local IT teams to remediate independently.
• Stronger bridge between Group Security expectations and local IT execution.