Security Architect
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| Job Type | Permanent |
| Location | Southampton |
| Area | South East, UK |
| Sector | DigitalIT & Telecoms |
| Salary | £50k-£55k |
| Start Date | ASAP |
| Advertiser | Leanne Howlett |
| Telephone | 07597378032 |
| Job Ref | LH-OS-660 |
- Description
- Job Title: Security Architect
Location Southampton
Rate £50k-£55k
Permanent
About the Role
You’ll be part of an organisation with a clear strategy to become a digital business and with an ambitious transformation agenda to enable us to give our customers the services, products and experiences that they have come to expect. You will play a critical role in ensuring we can realise these goals.
As the national mapping agency for Great Britain, Ordnance Survey collects and maintains geographic data, using it to create a high quality and comprehensive suite of data sets, products and digital services. Increasingly our role is in the provision of digital services to a broad range of customers and end-users, both within Great Britain and beyond. Consequently, an effective IT security capability is vital to the organisations future, both in terms of the services we provide to customers, and ensuring the integrity of our own capabilities, which will increasingly make use of public cloud services.
We are looking for an experienced cyber security professional to join our growing Security function within the Engineering group as a Security Architect, providing security architecture direction into IT Security strategy, policies, principles, reference models and standards across all architectural domains.
You will be responsible for providing strategic direction around the definition and maintenance of security-related business-aligned technology roadmap to meet the needs and ambitions of the organisation, whilst also ensuring compliance with Corporate Information Security policies.
Your role will include providing expert advice to architecture and development teams, ensuring solutions comply with relevant policies, reference models, regulations and best practices to mature the organisations security posture. You will be working with multiple projects to ensure security is embedded in the project life cycle, defining the security requirements to be delivered and identifying risks. Additionally, you will conduct cyber-security risk assessment activities, analysing the results and producing recommendations to address and mitigate risks. You will support our Security Architect function in providing strategic direction around the definition and maintenance of security-related business-aligned technology roadmap.
About You
You will need to demonstrate your track record against the following essential criteria:
Clear understanding of IT Security Strategies and Enterprise Level Security Architectures
Good knowledge and experience of Security Architecture in complex IT environments (analysing data, cyber-security architecture)
Excellent knowledge, understanding and experience of information risk concepts and principles
Experience of deploying applications and infrastructure into public cloud services, such as Azure, AWS and Oracle, as well as Windows and Linux platforms
Proven experience in Information Security areas, Identity and Access Management, Web Application Firewalls, Advance Malware detection/mitigation, Threat and Vulnerability Management, Information Risk and Governance, Industry security hardening techniques, Monitoring, and Incident Response
Excellent familiarity with industry compliance and security standards such as Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001, cloud security, 10 Steps to Cyber Security
Experience in ethical hacking and forensic analysis would be advantageous
Able to perform threat modelling and design reviews to assess security implications and requirements for new technologies
Relevant or equivalent qualifications such as: Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SCCP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), Sherwood Applied Business Security Architecture (SABSA), CCSP (Certificated Cloud Security Professional), CCSK (Certification of Cloud Security Knowledge)
Understanding of architecture methodologies, e.g. TOGAF, SABSA,
A minimum of two years in a Security Architect role or five years’ experience working in an Architectural role
