Senior Security Architect

Allen Lane

London

8 months ago

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The Role:Lead Security Architect

Job Grade:Grade 7

Length of Contract:9 Months

Level of Clearance:SC Clearance

Day Rate: £650

Key Responsibilities:

You will analyse and assess cyber vulnerabilities at scale for their potential business impact, using your own skill and experience, and in consultation with business owners and other security specialists.

Develop and maintain a comprehensive knowledgebase of guidance to enable technical and less technical people to fix any cyber vulnerabilities they may have.

Directly engage with stakeholders across the Public Sector to ensure they fix any cyber vulnerabilities we find, according to priority.

Must be able to develop and maintain good working relationships with stakeholders across the Public Sector to help prevent cyber vulnerabilities. Actively support the implementation of Secure by Design principles.

Identify gaps in the organisation's capability and improve ways of working within the team to quantify and reduce the level of cyber risk that Public Sector bodies are exposed to.

Train and upskill other members of the team to establish a lasting and functioning capability.● Help public sector bodies understand, assess and act on the vulnerability information they receive.

Help public sector bodies plan and prioritise how vulnerabilities are addressed to meet organisational objectives, using a risk-based approach.

Help public sector bodies improve their vulnerability management life cycle.

Proactively identify and leverage threat intelligence sources to inform strategic vulnerability mitigation measures and to enhance the quality and type of data provided to customer organisations.

Work with the service owner and customer organisations to identify gaps in our monitoring capability and improve and expand the scope of the vulnerability and threat data we can provide.

Your skills:

Analysis
Communication (security architect)
Designing secure systems
Enabling and informing risk-based decisions
Research and innovation
Security technology
Vulnerability Management

You will also have the following specialist skills, at Expert level

Knowledge of current cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities and risks, including knowledge of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP).

Expert knowledge of the security advantages and vulnerabilities of commodity products and technologies.

Ability to capture and quantify the potential business impact of successful cyber attacks to UK Public Sector bodies.

Ability in specifying and implementing security controls and design patterns for infrastructure, network and applications, including within cloud architectures.

Ability to interact with a broad range of people with different levels of technical skill, including senior stakeholders, to explain and encourage the implementation of security measures, and to work together to find solutions.

Knowledge of the security advantages and vulnerabilities of common products and technologies.

Ability to write actionable cybersecurity advice, keep it current and relevant, and continually improve it based on user feedback.

Ability to train and upskill other members of the team.

Professional qualifications/accreditations,

Such as:

Certified Cyber Professional (CCP),

CREST Registered Technical Security Architect,

BCS Practitioner Certificate in Information Assurance Architecture,

ISC(2) Information Systems Security Architecture Professional,

ISO27001 Lead Implementer.

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