Veikkaus creates joy through games and protects it. We want to make sure that gambling in Finland stays on the joyful side. All our actions are guided by sustainability. We want to be a trailblazer in the gaming industry, and a trendsetter of a responsible player experience. Wellbeing is our passion. It is important that our employees enjoy coming to work every day. We offer versatile and extensive employee benefits. With us, you get to do work that makes a difference, in a spirited work community that is constantly developing. Let’s work together – to keep gambling on the joyful side.

Join Us as a Passionate and Skilled Gaming Product Security Lead to Ensure the Safety of Our Gaming Experiences!

In this role you will lead our product security work and be responsible for the security of Veikkaus’ gaming products, platforms and services over their lifecycle. You will lead a team of software, cloud and infrastructure security specialists and act as the team's supervisor as well. You will collaborate closely with our software development organizations to reduce security related business risks and meet increasing regulatory compliance and growing security demands by customers. You get to work in a modern environment making use of public cloud-based infrastructure and application development tool and drive automated security assurance solutions in the CI/CD systems.

In the role you report to the CISO. In addition to product security, you get to influence and contribute to other aspects of cybersecurity as part of the CISO team.

We are looking for you who

• Have passion for making security an integrated part of software development activities.

• Are comfortable with balancing evolving security requirements and business priorities and discuss with product management and development teams.

• Actively translate compliance and security requirements to technical requirements and reusable implementation.

• Continuously improve our modern secure software development model and toolbox, and you are committed to coach teams, mentor security champions and do training for developers, testers and operations to ensure the organization can use the model to fullest.

• Create visibility to the security status of products, platforms and service, and the organizational coverage of the secure software model and toolbox usage.

• Are pragmatic, well organized and able to see the big picture while attending to important details.

• Have previous experience working as a team supervisor

In addition, we value and consider as strengths

• Experience in game or software product business

• Experience in integrating processes and deploying them to practice

• Experience of modern software security approaches and steps

• Experience in automating security testing in CI/CD pipelines, attack surface and vulnerability management

• 3-5 years of work experience of cybersecurity or related field and a related degree

• Basic knowledge of Finnish is preferred
  

The meaningfulness of work, development at work and the balance between work life and free time are very important things to us. According to our research, these are also things that Veikkaus' people value in their employer. We strongly invest in a good working day experience so that we feel comfortable coming to work every day. Do you want to join us and be part of developing us even better? You can read more about us, our benefits, and our work culture here.

The workplace is located at Veikkaus' head office in Helsinki, Pohjois-Haaga. Veikkaus prefers a flexible hybrid work model between a remote workplace and an office.

If you are passionate about secure software development and ready to take on a leadership role in product security, we would love to hear from you!

Veikkaus as a company will perform a drug test and security clearance check (According to the Act on Security Clearance (726/2014)) to the person selected for the position.