Hispasat, as part of the SpaceRISE consortium, is responsible for the technical implementation and ensuring the success of the IRIS2 project, leveraging its extensive experience in satellite communications. This collaboration is essential to provide secure and reliable high-performance communication solutions to the European Union and its member states.
To be part of this project, we are looking for Security Engineer - Cybersecurity. The responsibilities of the position are as follows:
Responsibilities
- Review functional and contractual documentation related to flight and ground architectural diagrams, requirement lists and Statements of Work.
- Analyse documentation from cybersecurity and information-protection perspectives, identify relevant requirements and contribute to its finalisation as appropriate.
- Tailor general security requirements and flow them down to interfaces and subsystems.
- Design, analyse and perform trade-offs on security architecture choices, with a focus on encryption technologies, Key Management Facilities and key distribution,



together with their procurement and deployment, pursuing cost- and time-efficient accreditation.
- Support the project team on security requirement-compliance analysis, implications for infrastructure implementation, identification of security flaws and vulnerabilities, and verification and validation activities.
- Follow system integration, testing, verification and validation, assess compliance with security requirements and propose treatment plans.
- Analyse the exploitability and impact of vulnerabilities and propose appropriate mitigations and countermeasures.
- Conduct authorised hands-on penetration tests to identify security flaws.
- Support cybersecurity audits and the regular security upgrades required for the system.
- Support the development and maintenance of technical documents, including the Security Management Plan, end-to-end space-system security architecture, security design and corresponding secu

📌 Security Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 Hispasat
📍 Madrid