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Would you like to play a crucial role for the future of Novo Nordisk, one of the most innovative pharmaceutical companies in the world? Are you ready to assess and improve our overall security posture by facilitating information sharing, running joint security exercises, and developing comprehensive threat mitigation strategies?

If you like to promote a holistic approach to cybersecurity, ensuring that defensive strategies are informed by offensive tactics and vice versa, then read on!


What’s the role about?
As our Senior Security Analyst you will be part of GSO Functional areas to develop and refine mitigation strategies based on insights gathered from joint assessments and information exchange.

Your key responsibilities include:

  • Act as a bridge between security testing, Incident Response, Security System Operations, and Data Analytics security teams, facilitating communication, joint exercises, and knowledge sharing to enhance overall security effectiveness
  • Ensure assessments are conducted in a controlled manner and all findings are corrected or accepted
  • Plan and execute joint security assessments, including penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and threat emulation exercises to identify weaknesses and inform defensive strategies
  • Share insights gained from offensive and defensive operations to enhance the collective understanding of threats, vulnerabilities, and effective defensive measures across our organization
  • Take adhoc requests from GIS (Global Information Security) business areas to conduct testing on specific infrastructure or testing adversary TTP’s


We expect you to continuously initiate process improvements, tasks managements and activities on own initiative and recommend changes and improvements for approval from the business.

Candidate profile
The preferred candidate would have a background in Computer Science, Engineering, Cyber Security or other relevant fields with equivalent job experience.

  • Over 5 years’ experience working in IT Security
  • Understands risk management processes (e.g., methods for assessing and mitigating risk
  • Expert on cyber threats and vulnerabilities
  • Knowledge of red team tactics / pentesting of systems, security controls and how to best implement them to prevent threats

You also have good communications skills to present IT Security related issues to a broad audience ranging from technical personnel to management. You possess high degree of independence and integrity, be self-driven and take full ownership of all job assignments.

Department overview
Novo Nordisk Advanced Security Operations (ASO) is compromised of multiple global functional areas including SOC, Incident Response team, Security Testing, Incident Management, and Vulnerability Management Office. We operate in Ballerup Denmark, Princeton NJ, and Bangalore India.

Any questions?
For further information, please contact our Recruitment Consultant for this role, Susanne Plykker at USNP@novonordisk.com

Deadline
30 April 2024

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

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