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Senior Security Architect
Edinburgh/ Hybrid
£75,000 - £95,000 + Package
We are partnered with a global professional services client based in London who is looking to expand their Cyber Security services function. They are NCSC-approved and cover various verticals across Financial Services, Government, and Commerce and industry in the UK and Ireland.
The client is looking for an experienced Security Architect with strong cloud experience to join the client-facing Cyber team. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical and functional experience with a good grasp on leading projects and teams.
Delivering high-quality expertise in security architecture services to our wide range of clients, providing them with tailor-made solutions for their challenges
Roles and responsibilities
- Work closely with enterprise architects to identify and mitigate risks, perform security reviews, design top-tier security practices, and deliver strategic, innovative cloud-based security offerings.
- Propose, design, plan and execute strategic and tactical operational security objectives.
- Perform deep analysis and develop metrics that measure current risk
- Identify appropriate technology/data sources and drive the collection of data necessary to effectively evaluate threats.
- Communicate threat intelligence and vulnerability management options
- Analysing threats and current security controls to identify gaps in the current defensive posture
- Meet with clients and lead workshops
Expectations:
- You have strong experience in architecture and security management as well as an understanding of security best practices
- You have worked with securing network and enterprise cloud applications - ideally GCP, Azure or AWS
- You have strong knowledge of security frameworks, such as ISO/IEC 27001, NIST 800-53 or OWASP
- You know host hardening, auditing, logging and monitoring, network security, SEIM deployments, security analytics, anomaly detections, PKI
- You have proven implementation of cloud security models, particularly identity, network, and encryption
- You have demonstrated an understanding of Microsoft security technologies and strategy
- You have program management skills and solution support for security transformation/implementation programs
- You have business case development skills for justifying, prioritising & forecasting the funding requirements for security programs and initiatives
Hybrid working, 2-3 days a week in the office (on-site) and excellent package on offer including career prospects
