Security Architect (O365 Specialist)
Utilities
Predominantly remote: 1-2 days per month in Warwick
6 months+
750 per day

In short: We're standing up a new strategic infrastructure team and we need to bring on board a Security Architect with solid O365 (E5 Licence) and Azure experience to design and overlay controls on a new MS procurement.

In full:

The Security Architect serves as a security lead/visionary and will act as an expert in many areas of security, describing in business terms the impact of security policies, standards, technology standards and architecture on the business.

The Security Architect is to provide security requirements and to ensure that the delivered solution has the appropriate security services integrated into the solution at release/go-live.

Primary Roles & Responsibilities:

Providing a security service view to the business programs

Work closely with project teams, architects, and DevOps teams to drive security requirements, architectures, patterns, and approaches ensuring solutions are secure by design

Coordination of technical design/review activities with various segments within the Security team Accountable for ensuring that key risks and issues are identified, addressed, and remediated in a manner that satisfies the business risk appetite.

Accountable for ensuring residual risk is captured with remediation plans and owners are identified and accept the risks.

Knowledge and Capabilities:

Security Technology

Appreciation of wider information security related domains including vulnerability management, Identity & Access Management, Platform and Network Security and Data Protection.

Responsibilities aligned to business units which may cover Enterprise, Critical National Infrastructure (CNI), and Operational Technology (OT) capabilities and services with access to a specialised CNI and/or OT team

Proven experience in cloud security solutions, Azure hands-on experience preferred experience in vulnerability and risk management processes.

Project Engagement experience with Product Operating Model approach, and agile, and waterfall projects

Collaborative Working

Effective communication (written and verbal), leadership and partnering skills.

Able to demonstrate a high degree of credibility and influence stakeholders within the Organisation. Able to operate as a highly independent worker and as part of a strong team, taking a collaborative approach.

Preferably somebody who has done hands on IT in the past and understands the pragmatic approach sometimes required.

Qualification Requirements:

Educated to degree level (or equivalent combination of education and experience).

Security Qualifications such as Azure Security Associate/Azure Solution Associate/CISSP/CCSP/ MSc Information Security, etc.

Candidates will ideally show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

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