Technical Risk and Compliance Professional

Hybrid: From our office at Amsterdam Central Station and from home 

Total salary: Up to 98.000 EUR (before taxes including allowances) plus excellent secondary benefits (see below)

Full-time: 37.5 hours per week 

IMPORTANT: You should be living in the Netherlands or willing to relocate 

Within the Technology department at the RIPE NCC, we are looking for a Technical Risk and Compliance professional to help embed risk management and compliance into engineering workflows in a scalable, automated way that aligns with how teams build and operate systems.

A key part of your role will be making evidence gathering, control execution, and audit readiness practical and lightweight for engineers. You will translate compliance requirements into workflows that fit naturally into CI/CD environments. Our ideal candidate is someone who understands engineering contexts and can turn compliance into practical processes that teams can adopt. You bring a hands-on, pragmatic approach and are able to work comfortably and effectively  with auditors while staying grounded in engineering realities.

🧠 What You Will Be Doing:  

• Support engineering teams in identifying, assessing, and managing technical and operational risks

• Gather, structure, and maintain a clear overview of the technology risk landscape and ownership

• Ensure risk mitigation plans are defined, tracked, and executed effectively

• Translate compliance frameworks (e.g. SOC 2, ISO 27001) into practical engineering processes

• Improve control effectiveness by simplifying, standardizing, and automating controls

• Build scalable and repeatable processes for audit evidence gathering and act as first point of contact for auditors

• Implement continuous monitoring and automation of controls within CI/CD and infrastructure workflows

• Act as the bridge between Engineering, Risk & Compliance, and external auditors

We would also appreciate:

• Experience supporting audits from within an engineering or platform team

• A pragmatic mindset and the ability to challenge ineffective or overly complex controls

• Experience automating controls and evidence collection in cloud-native environments

👀 What We're Looking For:

• 5–8 years of experience in IT, DevOps, or Platform Engineering, with experience in  risk, security, or compliance

• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, cloud infrastructure (AWS and/or GCP), and Infrastructure as Code

• Hands-on experience with access control, identity management, logging, and monitoring

• Ability to translate compliance requirements into practical engineering implementations

• Experience with SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to work directly with engineers and auditors

📢What You Can Expect From Us:

Part of our pay policy is that we offer attractive total remuneration. While some companies may offer higher base salaries, at the RIPE NCC we take pride in offering outstanding secondary benefits that truly set us apart. Beyond the tangible perks, you’ll also gain the invaluable reward of working for a mission-driven organisation, where your contributions have a real and lasting impact on the Internet and the Internet community we serve. 

We offer:

• A modern, flexible and informal work environment in the heart of Amsterdam, with an emphasis on a healthy work/life balance

• A hybrid working policy under which you can combine working from the office with working from home. Working from abroad for a number of days per year is also possible.

• 30 vacation days, plus three collective days, plus public holidays

• A gross health insurance compensation for you and, if applicable, your partner, and your children under 21 years old. This means that RIPE NCC pays the largest part of your health insurance; you will only pay the taxes. 

• An excellent non-contributory pension scheme. We pay for the whole premium, while most of the organisations in the Netherlands ask the employee for some contribution.

• A generous education budget of €2,250 per year so you can keep learning and developing your skills

• Dutch language lessons for international colleagues. If we relocate you with your partner, we also offer this for your partner. 

• An annual health budget of €750 gross that you can spend on sport classes, a mindfulness course, a chair massage, etc.

• An annual budget of €1,600 gross for your Internet connectivity and technology at home

• When travelling with public transport, your transportation costs will be covered by a first-class train ticket to our Amsterdam office and/or KM allowance.

• An additional annual transportation budget of €500 gross that you can use on a bike or GVB card, for example

• A sport hour per week for doing sports or fitness during work hours

• A home office furniture budget for a healthy, ARBO-proof work setup at home.

• An organisation-wide internal training programme designed to develop critical soft skills—like feedback, resilience and leadership—giving you the tools to excel in your career and beyond

• An in-house free barista providing healthy varied lunches on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and nice breakfasts on Thursdays, plus monthly office social events

• Casual team events such as team outings, an annual Christmas party and a summer BBQ 

👥The Technology Department

You will join  the Technology department which includes the Internet Measurements, Information Technology and Software Engineering teams. We are a diverse, multicultural team who love to support the good of the Internet. 

The department is responsible for the systems that keep global connectivity running, from IP address management to DNS and data platforms, at massive scale. We’re driven by a shared mission: a stable, secure, and open Internet for everyone. Here, you’ll collaborate with passionate engineers, and see the real-world impact of your work every day. We value curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning, giving you the freedom to innovate and grow. If you’re excited about building resilient infrastructure with a purpose, you’ll feel right at home.

🛜About The RIPE NCC

The RIPE NCC is a not-for-profit organisation founded on the belief that the Internet should be governed openly, transparently and together with the wider Internet community. We are one of the oldest Internet organisations in Europe and are proud of our legacy.

Our strength is our staff. We bring together more than 180+ people from over 44 countries in our modern, vibrant office in the east wing of Amsterdam Central Station. Currently, we have a hybrid way of working and allow our staff to work from their homes and the office. Our official working language is English, but our colleagues speak more than 30 languages.

Our backgrounds are diverse, but our goal is the same: we work for the good of the Internet. Will you join us?

📋How To Apply

If interested, please click the ‘Apply’ button and submit your CV and cover letter in English. Adding a cover letter is highly important and appreciated, our team read them carefully. 

Not ready to apply yet? Then send me an email to openings@ripe.net and we can have an informal chat.

At the RIPE NCC, we are proud to serve our members and the RIPE community in 76 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia. We celebrate unique perspectives and talents from different backgrounds and cultures. So if you're passionate about what you do and want to help shape the future of the Internet, apply now - we'd love to hear your story. 

Please note that due to the nature of our activities, we will require successful candidates to follow a pre-employment screening (conducted by our partner DISA). This involves carrying out a background check and sharing education certificates.