Access Control & Network Visibility Product Owner

Contributing your strengths: your qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Strong experience in Network Access Control, Remote Access technologies, or Network Detection & Response platforms.
• Proven track record owning and operating complex security platforms in enterprise environments.
• Solid understanding of Zero Trust principles, identity-centric access control, and network visibility.
• Experience operating services with high blast radius and organizational impact.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex access, authentication, and network flow issues.
• Experience integrating NAC or NDR platforms with IAM, PKI, endpoint posture, or SOC tooling.
• Exposure to ITIL-aligned service operations and change management processes.
• High degree of autonomy, ownership, and accountability.
• Resilient and effective during major incidents.
• Ability to work across teams and communicate security topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

We are growing our Global Corporate Information Security team and we are seeking a Product Owner for Network Security (m/f/d) (Access Control & Network Visibility) who will be accountable for the technical ownership, operational correctness, and lifecycle management of the Access Control & Network Visibility service within the global Network Security portfolio. This service encompasses Network Access Control (NAC), Remote Access technologies, and Network Detection & Response (NDR), forming a foundational pillar of the organization's Zero Trust and network visibility strategy.

The Product Owner ensures that access enforcement, telemetry, and detection capabilities are designed, implemented, and operated in a secure, resilient, and auditable manner. You will be end-to-end responsible for service quality, technical decision-making, and risk control within scope, while collaborating closely with Product Management, Architecture, SOC, IAM, PKI, and IT/OT stakeholders.

Creating passion: your responsibilities

Product & Service Ownership:

• Own the technical correctness, stability, and security posture of the Access Control & Network Visibility service.
• Act as L3 escalation and decision authority for complex incidents, platform issues, and high-impact changes.
• Ensure access enforcement and visibility controls align with Zero Trust principles and security policy
• Maintain clear service boundaries, interfaces, and dependencies with IAM, PKI, SOC, IT, OT, and Product teams.

Platform Lifecycle & Engineering Ownership:

• Own the lifecycle management of NAC, Remote Access, and NDR platforms, including onboarding, configuration standards, upgrades, and decommissioning.
• Ensure platforms are implemented according to approved architectures, standards, and patterns.
• Drive continuous improvement of detection quality, access policy effectiveness, and platform resilience.
• Validate and approve technical changes impacting access enforcement or network visibility.

Incident, Change & Problem Management:

• Lead and support investigation of complex access or visibility-related incidents with organization-wide impact.
• Ensure root cause analysis (RCA) is performed for significant incidents and recurring issues.
• Participate actively in change management processes, ensuring changes are risk-assessed, tested, and traceable.
• Balance security enforcement with availability and user experience considerations.

Service Integration & Cross-Domain Collaboration. Collaborate closely with:

• Identity and Access Management (IAM) teams.
• PKI and certificate services.
• Security Operations Centre (SOC) and Incident Response.
• Network Security Architect and Product Manager.
• IT, OT, and Product teams consuming the service.
• Ensure telemetry generated by NAC and NDR platforms is reliable, meaningful, and consumable by SOC.
• Support secure access patterns for IT, OT, and product-connected environments.

Sourcing & Operational Oversight

• Retain internal ownership and approval authority, regardless of sourcing model.
• Oversee and guide external providers or MSS delivering L1/L2 operational activities where applicable.
• Ensure runbooks, escalation paths, and quality metrics are defined and enforced.
• Validate operational performance and escalate deficiencies through Product Management.

Authority & Decision Rights. The Product Owner is accountable for:

• Technical decisions within the Access Control & Network Visibility service scope.
• Service availability, stability, and security posture.
• Approval of service-level changes and enforcement decisions.
• Quality and effectiveness of access control and network visibility outcomes.

The working location for this position will be in Madrid city where we are currently setting up a new office. We operate a hybrid model, requiring at least 40% of the working time on-site on a weekly basis.