- Pay Rate:
Competitive Market Rate
- Hours per Week:
37
Anticipated 18 months
- Reading
QAD/1319/0409
Role: Senior Cyber Security Architect
Contract Length: Anticipated 18 months
Location: Reading
Pay Rate: Competitive Market Rate
Our client is looking to hire a Senior Cyber Security Architect for approximately 18 months.
You will provide analysis of risks to information systems in order to inform risk owners and project managers to allow effective decision making. The post holder will provide expert subject matter advice to CISO and other elements of the IS management chain.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead for maintaining awareness of government and industry best practice in Information 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 formal accreditation
- Assist with IT Health Check and Vulnerability Assessments by approving scope of tests and overall testing programme.
- Provide technical risk assessment analysis.
Key requirements:
- Experience as a Security Architect
- Worked in highly classified environments
- Security Analyst skills
- Good working knowledge: Firewalls; DevOps; Cloud; Intrusion detection systems (IDS); Intrusion prevention systems (IPS); Endpoint detection
- Hands on with security tooling
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Ability to use initiative, ask right questions, flag issues, fit into project
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Security Clearance: DV highly desirable; candidates with active DV clearance will be fast-tracked.
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