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Base Location: Havant / Reading
Salary: 650 per day
Working Pattern: 40 hours per week / Full time
Embark on a transformative career journey with SSE energy company, where innovation meets impact in the heart of the IT sector. As a pivotal player in our forward-thinking team, you'll harness cutting-edge technology to drive change and propel the UK towards its ambitious net-zero targets. Your expertise will not only shape the future of energy but also carve a sustainable world for generations to come. Join us and be at the forefront of the green revolution, where every line of code contributes to a cleaner, brighter future.
Key Responsibilities:
* Provide technical leadership, design, implementation, integration, and oversight of the SSE's infrastructure security solutions.
* The architect's primary responsibility will be to contribute to designing the security elements of IT solution architectures and leading the architectural design of security-specific capabilities, to ensure alignment to the Enterprise Principles, Roadmaps and Vision.
* Educate stakeholders and champion embedding cloud security across all architecture and design.
* Network, Endpoint and Application logging concepts, best practice and monitoring systems including SIEM
* Authentication, Authorisation and Accounting concepts, best practice and IAM management systems. OTP and MFA systems
* Identity strategy, Active Directory Security including federated implementation, for example ADFS, SAML
* Champion and oversee InfoSec design and implementation spanning cyber controls and architectural best practices
* Collaborate with the Security Architecture and Assurance teams to ensure Cloud architecture adheres to organisational controls and advances security posture
What do you need?
* Strong background in security architecture, security design and defining security frameworks for the enterprise
* Strong understanding of Network security (NGFW, WAF, NLB, Proxy), system or application security (microservices, NLB, SSL) and data security (Encryption)
* Hands-on experience in Cloud (AWS/GCP/Microsoft Azure) security architecture, security engineering, or equivalent experience with vendor specific cloud certification. Azure a strong advantage
* Experience in securing DevOps or Software Supply chain practices and tooling, application security threat modelling & data security
* Experience in Cloud formation & Terraform
* Experience with Azure infrastructure such as Account structures e.g. (subscription, tenant), Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Service Principles, RBAC, IAM
* Strong Windows server background on both physical and virtual (VMware) infrastructure
* Strong experience in server migration elements to both on-premises and off-premises
* VMware and Hyper-V experience and design
What happens now?
After submitting your application for the Security Architect role, we understand you're eager to hear back. We value your time and interest, and if your application is successful, you will be contacted directly by the team within 2 working days.
We appreciate your patience and look forward to the possibility of welcoming you aboard.
Guidant Global (BH4SF) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
