Senior Cyber & Information Security Architect (377lw) – Global Telecommunications – Remote + £80,000.00 - £85,000.00 pa

An exceptional opportunity to work for a company at the forefront of the telecoms industry - an exciting arena characterized by continuous growth, innovation, and transformation. In 2020, the global telecommunications services market was valued at an impressive US $1657.70 billion, with projections indicating it will soar to US $2395.47 billion by 2027. This dynamic landscape offers boundless opportunities for personal and professional development.

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

For over two decades, our client has been a trailblazer in providing essential design, deployment, and support services. Their global presence extends across 90+ countries, positioning us as a leader in the field. They specialize in meeting end-to-end requirements driven by market trends such as FTTH, 5G, Edge DC, and Subsea technologies. Today, they proudly hold the distinction of being recognized as one of the UK's top-performing privately-owned technology companies.

Our client understands that their people are the heart of their success. They are deeply committed to nurturing a work culture that prioritizes the well-being and growth of their employees. They take pride in listening to their team and taking action to continually enhance their company's support and enriching environment.

About The Role
Our client are looking for curious, inquisitive, and proactive team members to take the opportunity of coming into a greenfield environment, working alongside hyper-scalers and telecoms providers to design, build and provide assurance for security aware NOC services globally.

Day to Day

Support the delivery of the cyber & information security strategy and operational security activities.
Providing guidance, advice, and oversight by defining cyber & information security architecture standards in-line with policies.
Drive the implementation of information & cyber security controls across the landscape and customer projects in-line with industry best practices appropriate for critical infrastructure services.
Design and guide the implementation of technical security standards and cyber security architecture aligned to industry requirements, best practices and ISO27001 and NIST CSF.
Design an in-depth approach for information security architecture that will help in identifying threats and reducing the risk profile across all areas of the environment.
Work across the Cyber & Information Security and IT functions to increase the adoption of security architecture patterns and consistent technical standards and guidelines.
Become instrumental in the support of change control processes, conducting security impact analyses and being able to act as the cyber & information security approver as required.
Provide support and guidance in all areas to ensure developing and maintaining an agile and secure development of business applications and systems in line with DevSecOps business processes.
Keep abreast of the latest cyber threats that may impact business services & operations whilst providing advice on countermeasures to be adopted.
Act as the cyber & information security architectural advisor by providing technical security consultancy on customer projects and deliverables, in-line with contractual obligations, compliance requirements and our reference security architecture.

About You

Information Security
Develops and communicates corporate information security policy, standards and guidelines.
Ensures architectural principles are applied during design to reduce risk. Drives adoption and adherence to policy, standards and guidelines.
Contributes to the development of organisational strategies that address information control requirements. Identifies and monitors environmental and market trends and proactively assesses impact on business strategies, benefits and risks.
Leads the provision of authoritative advice and guidance on the requirements for security controls in collaboration with subject matter experts.

Solution Architecture

Leads the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure, or functional areas.
Lead the preparation of technical plans and ensures that appropriate technical resources are made available.
Ensures that appropriate tools and methods are available, understood and employed in architecture development.
Provides technical guidance and governance on solution development and integration. Evaluates requests for changes and deviations from specifications and recommends actions.
Ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards, and practices (including security) are applied correctly.

Qualifications

At least one: CISM or CISSP
Nice to have: CRISC, CISA, CCSK, CCSP, or Microsoft 365 Security Administrator (MS-500)
At least one: Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-305) or Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect (SC-100)

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/7557/senior-cyber-information-security-architect-global-telecommunications