Cyber Security Architect
On site
Reading, United Kingdom
Freelance
20-02-2025
Job Specifications
Senior Cyber Security Architectural Lead
Job Purpose:
To provide specialist information security oversight, advice and guidance to projects and functions on all aspects of information security in order to provide assurance that
functions on all aspects of information security and/or classified information assets, materials and/or equipment are subject to an acceptable risk management regime.
Key Accountabilities:
• Provide analysis of risks to information systems in order to inform risk owners and project
managers to allow effective decision making.
• Provide expert subject matter advice to CISO and other elements of the IS management chain.
• Ensure IT projects are provided with timely technical security advice.
• Develop and apply the overall security architecture of the organisation and the place within in it of key security controls.
• Maintains and promotes high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.
Key Responsibilities:
• Work with functions, projects and the supply chain to assess the sources of Information Risk and make recommendations on how these are to be managed.
• Provide the client lead for maintaining awareness of HMG, MoD and industry best practice in In-formation Assurance and Information Risk Management.
• Determine how the overall security architecture applies to projects under consideration and advise project solution architects on security requirements.
• Review high and low level solution designs for compliance with overall security architecture, achievement of security requirements and overall efficacy of the security features and tools.
• Facilitate the formal accreditation by MoD of corporate systems and of other specified systems.
• Provide an interface between client and the National Technical Authority (NCSC).
• Oversee IT Health Check and Vulnerability Assessments by approving scope of tests and overall testing programme
• Record and track assessments of information capability and projects supporting reviews and audits as necessary.
• Provide technical risk assessment analysis.
• Develop the professionalism of Information Risk Management.
• Attend project Security Working Groups and manage when appropriate.
Criteria
• Strong cyber security architect
• Familiar with security tools
• Has worked in a defence industry previously, eg MOD
• Has had hands on experience in security applications and/or appliances
• Security Architect skills
Good working knowledge of the following:
• Firewalls
• DevOps
• Cloud
• intrusion detection systems (IDS)
• intrusion prevention systems (IPS)
• Experience more important than qualifications
• Has worked in highly classified environments
• Technical background
• Endpoint detection
Technologies
SEAM
Darktrace
Sentinel – 365 Tools
Elastic/ELK Stack
About the Company
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