Senior Technical Architect

Reed Secure is a specialist provider of permanent, contract, temporary and outsourced recruitment solutions for security cleared professionals.

We require a Senior Technical Architect to cover an existing workload within Counter Terrorism Polcing, based in Empress State Building (Hybrid working).

This is an interim position for an initial 6 months with the potential to be extended, dependent on workload.

Job Purpose:

• This role will support the Senior Architect (aka Chief Technical Architect) to provide Enterprise design and support expertise for a range of ICT Projects and the overall CTP Architecture.
• This role is vital to ensure the CTP infrastructure, systems and services are built, designed and architected to ensure that they are secure and efficient in use.
• This role requires a flexible working approach and be self-motivated to help ensure that the various environments are well architected and documented.

Skills and experience needed to be successful in this role:

• MUST HOLD ACTIVE DV LEVEL VETTING TO APPLY!
• Experience and knowledge of the Government Security Classifications levels and an understanding of the Cabinet Office Security Policy Framework.
• Experience of designing system via Architectural Frameworks especially TOGAF.
• Understanding of ITIL and Agile methodologies.
• Experience in writing Design Documentation suitable for accreditation at up to IL5.
• Experience of working with Accreditor to ensure the design meets the needs of the security standards being applied for IL5.
• Able to demonstrate Expert knowledge in the design and build of resilient designs.
• Competence in a wide range of the following areas.
• Expertise of designing a Microsoft Windows environment with a significant combination of the following key components: Windows Server, Microsoft SQL server, Active Directory, GPO, High Availability services, Windows desktop / VDI, Certificates and PKI design, RSA Tokens.
• Expertise of designing a network infrastructure with a significant combination of the following key components: Cisco Routing / Switches, TCP/IP, Network Services (DNS/DHCP/NTP), Intrusion protection / Detection.
• Expertise of designing solutions hosted on AWS including their Well Architected Framework and Landing Zones (experience of PALZ is a bonus).
• Expertise of designing and working with AzureAD and Office 365 Services.
• Expertise of designing a Linux environment within a larger Windows environment.
• Expertise of VMware Virtualisation.
• Expertise of designing and developing software solutions using some of the following technologies: .NET (VB, C#, ASP.NET, .NET CORE), MVC Framework, Python, JavaScript (REACT, Bootstrap Frameworks), Database design, SQL / SQL Server, NoSQL technologies e.g. MongoDB, Hadoop, etc.
• Expertise of documenting business processes using BPMN (or similar frameworks).
• Understanding of Waterfall and Agile project methodologies.
• Experienced in effectively transferring knowledge and skills to junior staff.

This role offers a competitive salary of £750 per day Umbrella (Inside IR35) and you’ll be working via Reed who offer great benefits such as discounts, cashback offers and more as well as weekly pay.

MUST HOLD ACTIVE DV LEVEL VETTING TO APPLY.

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