Security Architect - Manchester
The Cabinet Office supports the Prime Minister and ensures the effective running of government. It is also the corporate headquarters for government, in partnership with HM Treasury, and takes the lead in certain critical policy areas.
We are the Cabinet Office’s cyber security team, and our mission is to secure the department (including its arms length bodies) against cyber threats. We protect our nationwide internal IT infrastructure, and high-profile citizen-facing digital services.
Find out more about the work Cabinet Office gets involved in at the and Technology in Government blog.
We are seeking an experienced security architect to join the department’s Cyber and Information Security function. As a key member of the security architecture team you will be responsible for designing security controls and identifying security solutions that supports the Department’s business objectives.You will be providing specialist advice to assist the department’s IT and digital services to be secure by design. This role reports to the Head of Security Architecture.
Our security architects are trusted advisors for security, responsible for delivering both hands-on solutions and providing information and cyber security advice.
You will work within the central cyber security function and across the Cabinet Office in this fast-paced and diverse role. You’ll be instrumental in implementing appropriately secure systems, security tooling and other solutions to solve cyber security problems.
The security architect role is part of the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Profession in the Civil Service.
As a security architect, you will:
- Provide specialist security architecture advice, and recommend technology or business processes to enable project teams to deliver business objectives.
- Communicate widely with other business and technical stakeholders.
- Advise on important security-related technologies and assess the risk associated with proposed changes.
- Inspire and influence others to execute security principles.
- Help review the work of other digital and security specialists.
- Reach and influence a wide range of people across larger teams and communities, including senior stakeholders.
- Research and apply innovative security architecture solutions to new or existing problems and be able to justify and communicate design decisions.
- Continuously improve the security of our platforms and services by cooperating with various stakeholders to identify, communicate and remediate cyber security issues.
- Advise on the selection and implementation of security controls by assessing current threats and vulnerabilities associated with a service or technology.
- Understand common and emerging vulnerabilities and threats.
- Help teams identify and promote security best practices to deliver robust, resilient, secure and scalable solutions.