Security Architect

Security Architect - Inside IR35
Contract Term: 3 Months (Possible Extension)
Contracting Authority: Cabinet Office 
Location: Hybrid - London/Manchester/Bristol

We are the Cabinet Office’s cyber security team, and our mission is to secure the department against cyber threats. We protect our nationwide internal IT infrastructure, and high-profile citizen-facing digital services such as GOV.UK.

Our security architects are trusted advisors for security, responsible for delivering both hands-on solutions and providing information and cyber security advice.

You will work within the Cyber Security function and across the Cabinet Office in this fast-paced and diverse role. You’ll be instrumental in implementing appropriately secure systems, security tooling and other solutions to solve cyber security problems.

As a Security Architect your main responsibilities would be: 
•    Continuously improve the security of our platforms and services by cooperating with various stakeholders to identify, communicate and remediate cyber security issues.
•    Advise on the selection and implementation of security controls by assessing current threats and vulnerabilities associated with a service or technology.
•    Understand common and emerging vulnerabilities and threats.
•    Know how to stay up-to-date through sources such as OWASP and MITRE ATT&CK.
•    Support digital and service teams to implement security controls and be considerate of organisational objectives.
•    Communicate security issues and advice widely through various internal channels, including technical documentation, intranets and published guidance.
•    Help teams identify and promote security best practices to deliver robust, resilient, secure and scalable solutions.
•    Act as an ambassador for the cyber security team and promote the team’s tools and services. 

You’ll have relevant experience in:

•    Active SC Clearance.
•    Experience of either AWS, Azure security architecture or general security architecture.
•    Have experience with cloud-native technologies, particularly those in Amazon Web Services (AWS) such as AWS Lambda, CloudTrail and Kinesis.
•    Appreciate security aspects end-to-end, from designing security controls before a system is developed to managing processes once a service is live, such as regularly iterating incident management and response plans.
•    Can demonstrate extensive cyber security knowledge.
•    Have performed threat modelling and design reviews against new and existing services.
•    Understand security isn’t just a technology problem, that people and processes are essential to consider.

If this Security Architect (SC Cleared) role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply and get in touch with karl.robinson@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk 

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.