POS2614: Infrastructure Security Engineer

IT Department

August 3, 2026

Join IMBA as an Infrastructure Security Engineer (Security / Hardening / SIEM) to drive security improvements across its infrastructure. The role works across platforms and services to strengthen the institute’s security posture, with a focus on hardening, security monitoring and SIEM, vulnerability follow-up, and the ongoing development of operational security standards. The role suits someone who likes working broadly across infrastructure, cloud, platforms, and services rather than being tied to a single technology stack.

Responsibilities

• Drive and coordinate infrastructure security initiatives across the environment
• Develop and maintain hardening standards and operational security baselines
• Support vulnerability follow-up, remediation tracking, and prioritization
• Own SIEM topics such as log onboarding, visibility, alerting, and use case development
• Support security monitoring, detection, and incident triage
• Review infrastructure patterns, services, and technical changes from a security angle
• Work with infrastructure and application teams to put practical security improvements in place
• Help strengthen security across Linux, containers, cloud, identity, and services

Your profile

Required:

• Experience in infrastructure, platform, or operational security
• Good understanding of hardening across Linux, cloud, or hybrid environments
• Experience with SIEM, logging, alerting, or detection engineering
• Experience with vulnerability management and remediation
• Strong analytical skills, able to work across teams and technical domains
• Pragmatic, structured approach to security improvements
• Good communication skills, able to translate security requirements into concrete measures

Preferred:

• Experience with container, Kubernetes, or OpenShift security
• Familiarity with identity and access security
• Experience with incident handling or security operations
• Experience with compliance-oriented baselines and controls
• Experience in a mixed on-prem and cloud environment

What we offer

• A collaborative and international working environment at the Vienna BioCenter. Modern infrastructure and access to a strong scientific and administrative campus network.
• Flexible choice of work equipment
• Strong support for professional development
• Flexible working hours & up to 2 days of home office per week
• Cafeteria, on-site kindergarten, public transport subsidy (Jobticket), and much more
• An annual gross salary starting from € 65,000 (approx. € 4,643 gross per month, paid 14 times a year), with a willingness to pay more depending on your professional qualification and experience.

Interested? Apply via the link below with just your CV and motivation letter: