Cybersecurity and Risk Consultant

What you’ll need:

• Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries. We may offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your eligible dependents.
• Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB Group.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related fields.
• Experience: A minimum of 4 years combined experience in cybersecurity, risk management or software development.

• Experience with designing and implementing Cybersecurity controls to identity, protect, detect, respond, and recover from cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
• Experience performing security risk assessments of information systems, interfaces, and technologies to produce contextual risk ratings and recommendations to mitigate those risks.
• Experience programing and scripting.
• Experience creating and analyzing indicators and metrics based on risk.
• Desirable: a) Experience working with common frameworks, and security and compliance standards such as Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) cloud controls, ISO 27001, OWASP, and NIST CSF. b) Certifications in the fields of information security, IT risk, cloud security are desirable. AWS Certified Security Specialty, Azure Security Engineer Associate, CISSP, CISM, CISA certifications are preferred.

• Languages: You are proficient in English and in another Bank official language (Spanish, Portuguese and/or French).

Core and Technical Competencies:

• Technical skills in cloud and security design in AWS and Azure incorporating native security controls. Desirable working knowledge with AWS or Azure Services: Security Scores, Key Vault, Secrets Manager, WAF, Service Bus, App Services, Lambda, etc
• Ability to communicate effectively with multidisciplinary technical teams.

Opportunity Summary:   

• Type of contract: Consultant Full time (CNS).
• Length of contract: 12 months.  If needed, contract could be extended.
• Location: Washington, DC (Headquarters)
• Responsible person: IT Lead Spec ITE/IPP
• Requirements: You must be a citizen of one of the IDB’s 48 member countries and have no family members currently working at the IDB Group.  

Our culture: Our people are committed and passionate about improving lives in Latin-America and the Caribbean, and they get to do what they love in a diverse, collaborative and stimulating work environment. We are the first Latin American and Caribbean development institution to be awarded the EDGE certification, recognizing our strong commitment to gender equality. As an employee you can be part of internal resource groups that connect our diverse community around common interests.

Because we are committed to providing equal opportunities in employment, we embrace all diversity and encourage women, LGBTQ+, persons with disabilities, afro-descendants, and indigenous people to apply.

About us: At the IDB, we’re committed to improving lives. Since 1959, we’ve been a leading source of long-term financing for economic, social, and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean. We do more than lending though. We partner with our 48-member countries to provide Latin America and the Caribbean with cutting-edge research about relevant development issues, policy advice to inform their decisions, and technical assistance to improve on the planning and execution of projects. For this, we need people who not only have the right skills, but also are passionate about improving lives.

Our team in Human Resources carefully reviews all applications.

Due to the current COVID-19 pandemic and its implications for our Region, the IDB Group is reviewing its hiring needs and re-prioritizing its areas of talent acquisition. We encourage candidates to continue to apply to the active postings, yet current job openings may be subject to further decisions in terms of timing of the processes, or other actions, in accordance with business needs. Final hiring decisions may also be conditioned to the candidate’s ability to timely relocate to the post of duty at the moment of starting service.