To find out more about the company and role contact ella.hysom@hays.com

Key Responsibilities of the Security Solutions Architect role:

• Ensure that security requirements and controls are embedded into business change
• Support the architecture of security component services including infrastructure and application design
• Review and input into the appropriate use of security technologies within the company
• Work with stakeholders to build security into new designs and patterns
• Define secure infrastructure and application build/implementations
• Input to technology security roadmaps and strategy
• Support the evaluation of new products and vendors during formal and informal processes
• Input to wider technology stream strategies, design and implementations
• Ownership of security led projects, and participation in non-security led project activities

Experience and Qualifications Required:

• Understanding of Security Standards and GRC frameworks like NIST CSF, ISO 27k:2013, Cloud Security Alliance, Togaf 9 etc.
• Ability to provide technical oversight to design and implement security controls for enterprise applications.
• Experience and strong understanding of security access management principles and standards implementations, such as federation (SAML, oauth etc)
• Proficient in the contemporary use of IaaS (AWS & Azure) such as compute, storage, network services, containers and serverless computing
• Understanding of the underlying protocols and technical components used as the basis for security services, including: HTTP, HTTPS, SQL, TCP/IP, Active Directory, LDAP etc
• Competent in UNIX and Windows general configuration and operational activities
• Understanding of traditional database technology and contemporary unstructured data source an advantage.
• Familiarity with scripting and automation technologies (e.g Terraform, Ansible etc)
• CISSP or equivalent security certification preferred