# Security Controller – Netherlands

**Company**: Anduril Industries
**Location**: Amsterdam, North Holland
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full-time offers
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Defense

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## Description

Anduril Industries is seeking a seasoned Senior Security Manager – Netherlands to serve as the primary security authority and designated Corporate Security Officer (Beveiligingsambtenaar - BVA).

The Global Security & Governance team protects Anduril's people, operations, capabilities, and classified technology across international jurisdictions.

**Responsibilities:**

- Facility Accreditation & Commissioning: Lead and execute the end-to-end process to obtain and maintain formal Dutch Ministry of Defence (MOD) Facility Security Clearance (FSC) / ABDO accreditation for Anduril’s new Netherlands site.

- Designated Security Officer (BVA): Act as the formal, dedicated Security Officer (Beveiligingsambtenaar) for Anduril NL, holding statutory accountability for the entity’s defense security operations.

- Board Governance & Executive Reporting: Maintain a direct reporting line to the Netherlands Board of Directors; provide regular executive briefings on threat vectors, regulatory compliance, risk postures, and facility readiness.

- Personnel Security (PERSEC) Lifecycle: Design, implement, and run the personnel security apparatus.

- Governance & Investigations: Conduct NL-specific security investigations, manage incident response, assess insider threat vectors, and execute required regulatory reporting under Dutch MOD rules and internal corporate standards.

- Regulatory SME: Serve as the internal Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Dutch defense regulations (ABDO), state-secret protection frameworks, and applicable European Union security directives.

- Pragmatic Security Culture: Establish a pragmatic, modern security culture across Anduril NL.

- Multinational Alignment: Partner closely with regional, international, and US/UK security leadership to harmonize global security policies.

**Required Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree in Security Management, Law, International Relations, Criminology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

- 8+ years of progressive security leadership experience within the Dutch defense sector, intelligence community, military, or a cleared defense prime operating in the Netherlands.

- Demonstrated experience preparing, certifying, and maintaining physical sites to obtain Dutch Ministry of Defence (MOD) Facility Security Clearances (FSC) under ABDO (Algemene Beveiligingseisen voor Defensieopdrachten) regulations.

- Direct experience performing the duties of, or working alongside, a designated Beveiligingsambtenaar (BVA) interfacing directly with the MIVD.

- Proven expertise in leading complex personnel security vetting (VGB), corporate security investigations, and insider threat programs.

- Demonstrated executive presence with experience briefing and advising corporate Boards of Directors, legal counsel, and military officials.

- High-agency, pragmatic operator who can build security infrastructure from scratch without relying on bureaucratic templates.

- Full professional working proficiency / fluency in both Dutch and English (written and verbal) is required.

- Must currently hold, or be immediately obtain and maintain, the highest level of Dutch national security clearance (Verklaring van Geen Bezwaar - VGB).

**Benefits:**

Anduril offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including comprehensive, competitive benefits packages available at little to no cost to employees.

## Skills

### Required
- Dutch defense regulations (ABDO)
- Personnel security vetting (VGB)
- Corporate security investigations
- Insider threat programs
- Facility Security Clearance (FSC)
- NATO security classifications

### Nice to have
- Prior service as a security officer or intelligence professional within the Dutch Ministry of Defence, MIVD, or AIVD
- Experience establishing sovereign defense compliance programs for a foreign-headquartered multinational technology or defense company
- Familiarity with NATO security classifications and bilateral international security agreements

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