Senior Cyber Security & Network Engineer

As Aker Solutions’ global recruitment partner NES Advantage are now looking for: POOL - Senior Cyber Security & Network Engineer in Stavanger who can help us succeed.

Aker Solutions take care of energy assets in a Life Cycle perspective. From the start to end of production Aker Solutions ensures safe operations, optimizes field utilization, and enables field life-extensions. We do business development and execute modifications and maintenance projects. There is a global trend towards decarbonization, and we aim to help our customers to decarbonize their operations and measure their emissions to manage them more efficiently, for instance by delivering brownfield electrification of existing offshore facilities. Now we explore opportunities in the aftermarket for renewables, to deliver offshore maintenance for the renewable sector when the market is ready. Aker Solutions employs approximately 11,000 people in more than 20 countries.

We have highly skilled, social, and creative people working in our cyber department. Wellbeing, communication, and hard work is important to us, and we work together as a team to deliver to our customers.


What will you be doing? 

• Implement strategies, specifications, and reports for cyber security and network infrastructures in industrial automation and control systems. 
• Ensure discipline deliverables to the right detail level for studies with feasible, conceptual technical solutions in line with client and authority requirement. 
• Cooperate with other disciplines, Client, and vendors to ensure all aspects are covered. 
• Responsible for CS&NS scope of work in Front End studies. 
• Ensure design is in accordance with requirements to network infrastructures and cyber security. 
• Participate in meetings and technical workshops with suppliers and customer, to review network architectures and cyber security compliance. 
• Contribute for design/adaptations/modifications of network infrastructures and interfaces as needed for physical infrastructures as well as for configurations of network equipment. 
• Give input to work processes and workflows when needed and implement these into projects to drive the desired results. 
• Review and comment on supplier topology drawings, functional specifications, and test procedures. 
• Establish project-specific IO ICT documents at different project phases, such as philosophies and functional requirements in front-end projects, as well as specifications used for inquiry of IO solutions. 
• Input to Study report. 
• Good written English is mandatory.

Qualifications we think you should have:

• Do you have MSc, BSc, Technical College, or other relevant education and experience
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in a relevant field Experience with and ability to work effectively in multi-disciplinary matrix organizations, seeking answers/advice/support as needed. 
• Full comprehension of the IP-based communication, especially Layer 2/3/4 mechanisms 
• Strong knowledge of networks, products, and protocols, including industrial protocols such as Modbus TCP, Profinet, IEC 61850, and OPC UA Experience with administration, implementation, and troubleshooting of VLANs, IPv4, switching/routing, firewall rulesets, NAT, QoS 
• Knowledge of industrial topologies, ISA 99, and the Purdue Model. 
• Knowledge of the IEC 62443 framework for Cyber Security in Industrial Automation and Control Systems 
• Knowledge of risk assessments for Cyber Security 
• Good knowledge of IO ICT tasks Experience with offshore Automation Systems 
• Software Skills Microsoft 365, Navisworks, Visio 
• Available for work in Norway
• Good communicative skills in Norwegian and English and team player

More reasons to work for Aker Solutions through NES Advantage:

• Opportunity to grow your network and develop professionally by integrating yourself into highly competent teams within world-renowned organizations in the energy sector
• On-going support from our experienced recruitment and back-office support professionals
• Exclusive access to all Aker Solutions’ project positions in Norway, with access to permanent positions when these are offered; we are the only company that has a frame agreement with Aker Solutions for project employments
• Fantastic office building with onsite canteen and training facilities
• Immediate proximity to restaurants and shopping
• HjemJobbHjem transport discount agreement and nearby train station

Interested? Contact us:

For more information about the position, please contact:
Recruiter Eivind Evertsen, Email: eivind.evertsen@nesadvantage.com - Phone +47 23 96 65 80

NES Advantage is part of the NES Fircroft group of companies. With over 90 years of combined experience, we are a global leader in engineering workforce solutions, dedicated to supporting innovative projects by supplying top-tier engineering and technical specialists. We operate on a global scale yet ensure deep local insights with our international talent network. Working with NES you will gain invaluable experience and broaden your professional network by working alongside with highly skilled teams within globally recognized organizations in the energy industry and be supported by our award-winning support teams.

With over 90 years' combined experience, NES Fircroft (NES) is proud to be the world's leading engineering staffing provider spanning the Oil & Gas, Power & Renewables, Chemicals, Construction & Infrastructure, Life Sciences, Mining and Manufacturing sectors worldwide. With more than 80 offices in 45 countries, we are able to provide our clients with the engineering and technical expertise they need, wherever and whenever it is needed. We offer contractors far more than a traditional recruitment service, supporting with everything from securing visas and work permits, to providing market-leading benefits packages and accommodation, ensuring they are safely and compliantly able to support our clients.