Security Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Designing and evaluating comprehensive security architectures across applications, cloud environments, identity services, and network infrastructure.

• Offering technical assurance for solution designs, design patterns, platform baselines, and implementation proposals.

• Analyzing security implications related to applications, network topology, identity management, data protection, integration patterns, and hosting models.

• Creating and upholding security standards, principles, patterns, and reference architectures.

• Integrating secure-by-design and DevSecOps methodologies throughout the delivery lifecycle, which includes secure coding practices, software supply chain security, and continuous integration and delivery controls.

• Utilizing risk-based decision-making to convey design risks, attack vectors, compensating controls, and residual risks to stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• Robust security architecture skills with experience in designing and validating secure technical solutions across applications, platforms, networks, cloud services, and infrastructure.

• Practical technical knowledge of software development, networking, cloud platforms, identity services, and enterprise infrastructure.

• Experience in evaluating technical designs, solution alternatives, hosting models, integration patterns, data protection needs, and identity architectures.

• Understanding of secure development methodologies, including threat modeling, code validation, security testing, infrastructure-as-code governance, API security, and secrets management.

• Comprehension of network and infrastructure security, encompassing segmentation, trust boundaries, remote access, gateway security, and zero trust principles.

• Capability to translate security policies, threat intelligence, and risk requirements into actionable technical controls and architectural decisions.

🏝️ Benefits

• £6,600 car allowance

• 25 days of annual leave with the option to purchase additional days

• Private medical insurance

• Life assurance

• Pension plan

• Generous flexible benefits fund