Technology Principal (Security)

Technology Principal (Security)

Full-time

Department: Digital, Data and Cloud

Company Description

We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.

We're an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of what we do:

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
• 3300+ strong, 350/£300m revenue business
• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW
• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW

We're a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it's deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we'll invest in you!

Job Description

You might start your week reviewing a detection engineering strategy for a major government department, spend time with a delivery team working through threat modelling on a live service, then present a secure cloud architecture to a client's senior leadership team.

You apply frameworks such as NCSC guidance, ISO 27001, and Cyber Essentials as practical tools that shape better outcomes, enabling effective security risk management, not compliance checklists.

You'll need to balance priorities across multiple engagements, often working to tight deadlines.

• edge security programmes.

• including AI security governance and the convergence of exposure management and detection engineering
• as the threat landscape continues to evolve.

Qualifications

• Progression from practitioner to accountability - you have a proven modern software and security background with strategic thinking abilities and a learning mindset, progressing to take responsibility for complex, scaled deliveries with solution architecture experience and security at its core
• Large organisation delivery experience - you have ideally delivered solutions for government departments or major financial institutions in environments with strict security, compliance, and governance requirements, which may include leading teams of architects or technical specialists
• Hands-on technical experience - you have built and deployed enterprise-scale digital services using modern approaches (microservices, APIs, hybrid and secure cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, data architecture, and system integration) with demonstrable application of zero trust principles, secure design patterns, SIEM architecture, security observability, and DevSecOps practices across the delivery lifecycle

• Government security and assurance experience - particularly GDS/GOV.UK or similar user-centred design approaches, HMG security policy, Government Security Classifications, and assurance processes such as GovAssure or programmes requiring SC clearance
• Technical breadth and security leadership - experience across multiple domains including detection engineering, threat and exposure management, identity and access management, and AI security governance, with team leadership and mentoring experience
• Active in the security and technical community - staying current with technology trends, engaging with partners such as Microsoft on platform evolution, and contributing to professional development through knowledge sharing, publications, or industry bodies such as CREST or ISACA

Additional Information

Why Version 1?

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people's individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance...