Cybersecurity Assurance Officer

Cybersecurity Assurance Officer at ASML

Role and responsibilities

As a Cybersecurity Assurance Officer, you will play a key role in strengthening the organization’s cybersecurity posture by evaluating and driving the effectiveness of security controls. Operating across a wide range of IT domains—such as infrastructure, cloud, workplace, IAM, and applications—you will ensure that policies and standards are translated into practice and that identified risks are addressed in a structured and measurable manner.

You will work across multiple cybersecurity capabilities, including patching, hardening, vulnerability management, privileged access, endpoint detection, and backup and restore. In this position, you are not only expected to assess and report on control effectiveness, but also to proactively drive improvements and follow through on mitigation efforts in collaboration with operational teams.

Through your contributions, you will help ensure that security controls are both embedded and effective, enabling the organization to deliver secure and resilient IT services. As Cybersecurity Assurance Officer, you’ll:

Assess and assure

• Perform structured assurance reviews across technical domains and security capabilities
• Identify gaps in control implementation and assess associated risks
• Validate the effectiveness of controls using a risk- and maturity-based approach

Support and drive

• Translate policies and standards into practical, testable control requirements
• Provide operational teams with clear guidance to support implementation
• Drive mitigation efforts by coordinating follow-up, supporting planning, and validating resolution
• Contribute to dashboards and leverage tooling to monitor compliance and control effectiveness

Report and improve

• Deliver clear, actionable insights to stakeholders through structured reporting
• Help evolve the assurance approach by contributing to policies, operating procedures, templates, and lessons learned
• Support continuous improvement by identifying themes and proposing process or capability enhancements

Education and experience
To help us tackle the technical challenges we face, you’ll need experience working on HighTech products and with complex processes. As a Cybersecurity Assurance Officer, you’ll need:

• Master's degree in relevant area with thorough experience or equivalent working and thinking level, combined with relevant Security certifications
• A strong foundation in cybersecurity, assurance, risk, or audit (minimum 3–5 years)
• Familiarity with frameworks like NIST CSF or ISO 27001
• Experience working with IT environments and security tooling (e.g., SIEM, EDR, vulnerability scanners)
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical content for varied audiences
• A proactive mindset with the drive to take ownership, follow through, and push initiatives forward
• A desire to grow across security capabilities and understand how security fits into real-world IT delivery

Skills
Working at the cutting edge of tech, you’ll always have new challenges and new problems to solve – and working together is the only way to do that. You won’t work in a silo. Instead, you’ll be part of a creative, dynamic work environment where you’ll collaborate with supportive colleagues. There is always space for creative and unique points of view. You’ll have the flexibility and trust to choose how best to tackle tasks and solve problems. To thrive in this job, you’ll need the following skills:

• Manage effectively and independently complex tasks and projects
• Have a solid foundation in internal and external stakeholder management and be able to understand different perspectives, can act upon those and can prioritize needs
• Actively engage with stakeholders, seeking input and feedback, and communicate in a clear and effective manner
• Present complex Security topics in an understandable way, offering solutions and suggestions
• Speak up when risks, opportunities or concerns are identified that could impact goals, operations, or people
• The ability to influence without formal authority, coordinating across teams to maintain momentum
• A pragmatic and structured approach to work, focused on outcomes and continuous learning

This position requires access to controlled technology, as defined in the United States Export Administration Regulations (15 C.F.R. § 730, et seq.). Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to access such controlled technology prior to beginning work. Business demands may require ASML to proceed with candidates who are immediately eligible to access controlled technology.

Diversity and inclusion

ASML is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values and respects the importance of a diverse and inclusive workforce. It is the policy of the company to recruit, hire, train and promote persons in all job titles without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, or gender identity. We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a driving force in the success of our company.

About Us

ASML is a leading supplier of lithography equipment, used by the world’s top chipmakers to print microchips that are increasingly powerful, fast and energy efficient. Working at ASML is inspiring, no matter what field you're in. That’s because we push the boundaries of technology: if it’s moving the world forward, chances are, we’re behind it. In fact, we’re probably a part of the electronic device you’re using right now.

We’re a global team of more than 32,000 people from 122 different nationalities and counting. Headquartered in Europe’s top tech hub, the Brainport Eindhoven region in the Netherlands, our operations are spread across Europe, Asia and the US.