Security Architect

Public Sector Resourcing • Contract • Swindon, Swindon, England, United Kingdom • 1d ago

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Security Architect (Inside IR35) for an 8 Month contract based Remotely (Occasional travel to Swindon).

Join a high-impact Security Foundation and Resilience Project as part of a multi-year programme to enhance UKRI’s IT security posture. You’ll work closely with internal architecture teams and external consultants to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

As a Security Architect your main responsibilities will be to:

Produce conceptual and physical security designs, including initial review of third party designs to comply with the target and enterprise architecture standards.
Conduct option analysis and provide recommendations to meet design standards, including development of key design decisions and risk impact assessments.
Support the transition of designs in coordination with operational teams.
Manage security design governance for the project, ensuring designs are fit for purpose and ready for approval at governance boards.
Work in close integration with the BAU architecture team, under the guidance of the Principal Security Architect.

Essential:

Experience deploying the full suite of tools within Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview under M365 E5 security licensing.
Experience deploying Microsoft Sentinel and/or MS LogRhythm within enterprise architecture.
In-depth experience of Security Architecture, Operations, Governance and Tooling across;
M365 Security Tools
Security Architecture
Security Governance & Assurance
Security Roadmaps
Experience designing and deploying within a cloud security reference architecture, preferably Microsoft cloud reference architecture.
Ability to design SOC and SOAR blueprints.
Familiar with secure-by-design principles, Government Security Standards and NCSC / international security frameworks.

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