Junior Cyber Security Advisor

Basic information

Business line: Technology & Transformation

City: Geneva, Zurich

Experience level: Graduate

Working time percentage: 80% - 100%

Date published: 04-Feb-2025

Req #: 17872

Job description

Location

: Zurich, Geneva

Work Pattern Percentage

: 80% - 100%

You bring ambition, we provide opportunities.

Kickstart Your Cyber Career

Help our clients build resilience against cyber threats

Are you passionate about cybersecurity and eager to build a career in a dynamic, ever-evolving field? Do you want to help organizations strengthen their cyber defenses, protect sensitive data, and ensure operational resilience? Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your expertise and eventually specialize in cyber strategy, operational resilience, or data protection and privacy?

Join our team as a Cyber Security Advisor with the opportunity to work across multiple domains — cyber maturity assessments, IT & cyber control frameworks, cyber defense operations, cyber resilience, and data protection & privacy. This role provides a solid foundation for Junior cyber hires who want to gain broad exposure before specializing.

How you can make an impact

• Assess cybersecurity maturity and help organizations design and implement robust cyber strategies.
• Develop and enhance IT and cyber control frameworks, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Support the implementation and maintenance of Information Security Management Systems (ISMS) based on ISO 27001 and other frameworks.
• Work alongside cyber defense teams to strengthen threat detection, incident response, and cyber resilience capabilities.
• Advise clients on data protection and privacy, including GDPR, data classification, and privacy-enhancing technologies.
• Conduct risk assessments and contribute to business continuity and disaster recovery planning from a cyber resilience perspective.
• Collaborate with senior team members to develop client presentations, reports, and proposals.

Who we are looking for

• You have 1-3 years of experience in cybersecurity, IT risk management, or related fields.
• A strong academic background with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• Familiarity with cybersecurity frameworks and standards such as NIST CSF, ISO 27001, CIS Controls, and MITRE ATT&CK.
• An understanding of IT risk management, cyber governance, regulatory compliance, and data protection principles (e.g., GDPR).
• Hands-on experience or strong interest in areas such as security operations, incident response, or cyber resilience is a plus.
• Industry certifications such as CompTIA Security+, ISO 27001 Lead Implementer, CISSP, CISM, or CIPP/E are an advantage.
• Excellent communication skills in English; fluency in German and/or French is a strong advantage.

Your team

Become part of an entrepreneurial, innovative, and international team of 70 +Cyber professionals across Switzerland. We are passionate about bringing best in class cyber solutions to our clients and helping our people grow both personally and professionally through trainings, mentoring programmes and on-the-job learning.

Careers at Deloitte. Choose your impact.

At Deloitte, your ideas create impact and spark meaningful change for our clients, people and society. Your unique expertise, background and perspective helps us find new ways into the most complex challenges so we can brighten the futures of those our work affects. At Deloitte, you can build a career that inspires and energises you. At Deloitte, you can choose your impact.

In Switzerland, we provide industry-specific services in the areas of Audit & Assurance, Tax & Legal, Strategy, Risk & Transactions Advisory, and Technology & Transformation. With close to 3,000 employees at six locations, we serve companies and organisations of all sizes in all industry sectors. We offer meaningful and challenging work, an inclusive and supportive environment where you can be your best self and where you will never stop growing. You will benefit from flexible and hybrid working conditions, wellbeing and parental programmes as well as many opportunities to connect, collaborate and learn.

Join us and become part of a global network of like-minded people dedicated to making a difference, whether by addressing climate change or improving 100 million futures by 2030. Want to know more about opportunities at Deloitte? Visit www.deloitte.com/ch/careers.

How to apply

We look forward to hearing from you! Please click on “apply now” to submit a complete application, including CV, cover letter, references and degree certificates.

If you have any questions, please contact Julia at talent@deloitte.ch

*All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age or disability, in accordance with applicable law.

We do not accept applications from recruitment agencies for this position.

Deloitte AG and Deloitte Consulting AG are Swiss subsidiaries of Deloitte LLP, the DTTL member firm in the United Kingdom.

Requisition code: 17872