Head of Operations CESA

About the job

Bern (and home office) | 80-100% (job sharing possible)

You can make this contribution

• Responsible for deployment planning of the professional organisation and the militia component in military operations, exercises and tests
• Conduct threat and impact analysis for cyber and electromagnetic self-protection
• Responsible for situation monitoring of cyber and electromagnetic security and defence (CESA) and the military partial situation pictures
• Drive forward the further development and cross-departmental implementation of the deployment concepts of cyber and electromagnetic self-protection
• Manage business control and stock reports of the CESA department

What makes you unique

• Completed technical or university degree in information security/computer science or federally certified business informatics specialist
• Several years of experience in staff management and leading highly qualified personnel in a heterogeneous, expert, agile environment
• Staff officer level large unit or commander level troop formation advantageous with general staff training
• Excellent analytical, conceptual and networked thinking and high cooperation skills
• Good active knowledge of at least a second official language and passive knowledge of a third official language as well as English skills

In a nutshell

Become part of the Cyber Command and actively shape the cyber and electromagnetic security and defence (CESA) of the Swiss Army. You are responsible for threat analysis, action planning/situation monitoring of cyber and electromagnetic self-protection and business control of the CESA department.
We are looking for an expert who is already well versed in the cyber world and brings solid experience in staff management. Are you passionate about protecting the Swiss Army from modern threats? Then we look forward to your application.

What we offer

• Working for Switzerland We are committed to the success model Switzerland and work for the benefit of the population.
• Lived diversity Thanks to equal opportunities, we develop our skills and bring in different perspectives.
• Healthy at the workplace We support and advise our employees in the area of physical and mental health.

All benefits

Your commitment to security and freedom

The Cyber Command (Kdo Cy) stands for competence in the areas of cyber and digitalisation. We combine enthusiasm for our task with know-how, innovation, state-of-the-art technologies and agile working methods. We provide secure, robust and resilient IT services for the Swiss Army and our partners in the Swiss security network. This enables the Cyber Command to give the Swiss Army the necessary knowledge and decision-making advantage – for a secure Switzerland.

The Swiss Army employs over 9,000 people in four military and around 200 civilian professions – at 110 locations throughout Switzerland. The next generation is also taken care of: the Swiss Army trains apprentices in over 30 professions.

Additional information

A position with the Swiss Army makes sense and offers many advantages. Convince yourself at armee.ch/vorteile .

Questions about the position

Selina Gurtner
People & Development Business Partner
+41 58 46 66813