Security Architect (030lw) – Information Security – remote + UK travel - £65000-£80,000 pa (subject to experience)

Our client is a well-established business that has been successful in the High Assurance cyber security market since 1992. Their secure information exchange solutions have been deployed by more than twenty-five different nations around the globe, in Government, Defence, Law Enforcement & Critical National Infrastructure.

DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS RECRUITMENT CONSULTANCY, WE ARE ONLY ABLE TO REPRESENT INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE EX MILITARY.

Our client’s success in the security and defence niche has been built on their ability to build great technology and service solutions; but also, being as good as the very best as an organisation.

This is an excellent opportunity to work within a continuous growth, friendly & dynamic team environment, where you will have the opportunity to thrive, continuously learn, be challenged, acknowledged & rewarded for your contributions.

The main purpose of the job is to deliver security architect consulting services to customers for designing, building, and reviewing secure solutions. This will involve combining broad technical and security skills with communication and business analysis.

Key Responsibilities
• Work with security professionals to understand their concerns and develop suitable architectures to address these.
• Identify solutions and recommend secure architecture to support customer business objectives.
• Capture, analyse and review customer requirements to deliver high quality input into bids and add value to proposals.
• Engage with and communicate with stakeholders and add value to wider team discussions.
• Understand and maintain a sound working knowledge of technical product portfolio to assist with the design and development of technical solutions to business problems.
• Contribute to and influence new technical developments and advise on appropriate approaches within our markets.
• Undertake technical pre-sales engagements with customers.
• Design and document solution architectures using the architecture, where applicable, to maximise benefit
• Develop networking relationships with customer and industry contacts to seek opportunity to offer services, products, technologies, and expertise to support businesses and operations.
• Support processes as part of continual improvement.
• Research or develop new techniques or tools.
• Review other peoples’ work and provide valuable critical feedback.
• Act as mentor to more junior members of the profession.
• Obtain and maintain appropriate qualifications and certifications for individual Continuous Professional Development.
• May be required to work unsociable hours to meet the demands of the role. This may be at short notice in exceptional circumstance.
• Prepared to travel as required.

Skills to be successful in this role
• Strong written and spoken communication with presentation skills.
• Good collaboration with other team members.
• Ability to be innovative and conceptualise.
• Highly analytical and capable of working at different levels of abstraction.
• Designing high level architectures using standardised approaches and tools.
• Translating requirements and technical specifications into detailed designs.
• Possess UK Security Clearance or be willing to undergo UK Security Clearance vetting.
• Knowledge of security standards, processes, and application of security enforcing measures.
• Networking principles (VLANS, Sub-netting, Fibre-Optic Networks).
• Cloud infrastructure (Public / Private Cloud).
• Agile methodologies.
• ArchiMate.
• Candidates with experience of working with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is desirable.

If you are interested in applying, please send a copy of your CV & outlining why this would be the ideal opportunity for you, by email to [email protected]

https://www.ex-mil.co.uk/vacancies/7616/security-architect-information-security