- Pay Rate:
Up to £600 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
- Hours per Week:
37
Anticipated 18 months
- Berkshire
QAD/1071/2205
Role: Senior Cyber Security Architect
Contract Length: anticipated 18 months
Location: Berkshire
Our client is looking to hire a Senior Cyber Security Architect on a contract basis for approximately 18 months.
As the Senior Cyber Security Architect you will lead awareness of best practice in Information Assurance and Information Risk Management and provide analysis of risks to information systems in order to inform risk owners and project managers to allow effective decision making.
As the Cyber Security Architect you will have at least five years’ experience working in a similar role and previous experience as a Security Analyst.
We are looking for a Cyber Security Architect with previous experience in the defence industry in highly classified environments, with good working knowledge of Firewalls / DevOps / Cloud / Intrusion detection systems (IDS) / Intrusion prevention systems (IPS) / Endpoint detection.
As the Cyber Security Architect you will have the following responsibilities:
- 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.
- 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 corporate systems and of other specified systems.
- Assist with IT Health Check and Vulnerability Assessments by approving scope of tests and overall testing programme.
- Provide technical risk assessment analysis.
- Develop the professionalism of Information Risk Management within the organisation
- Attend project Security Working Groups and manage when appropriate.
As the Cyber Security Architect you will have worked in a similar role and will have the following skillset:
- Previous experience in the defence industry in highly classified environments
- Security Analyst skills
- Good working knowledge Firewalls / DevOps / Cloud / Intrusion detection systems (IDS) / Intrusion prevention systems (IPS) / Endpoint detection
- Stakeholder Management
- Hands on with security tooling
Security Clearance: DV highly desirable; candidates with active DV clearance will be fast-tracked.
Contract Length: anticipated 18 months
INSIDE IR35: Up to £600 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
Location: Berkshire
Interview Process: MS Teams
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