About the role
Security Architect - Defence
Security Clearance: SC cleared
Location: Bristol – 2-3 days per week
Rate: up to £750pd outside IR35
Duration: 6 months
Exceed Cyber are working with a leading NCSC Assured Security Consultancy who require an experienced Security Architect to support the delivery of a large-scale Defence programme. This is an excellent opportunity to play a key role in shaping the security posture of a complex, high-profile environment, providing architectural leadership and Secure by Design expertise across a portfolio of critical projects and workstreams.
The Security Architect will be responsible for:
- Providing security architecture leadership and advice across assigned projects and workstreams.
- Reviewing technical designs, architecture artefacts and delivery proposals to assess alignment with security requirements.
- Supporting Secure by Design activity by embedding security considerations into project planning, design and delivery.
- Defining, reviewing and validating security controls across relevant areas including infrastructure, endpoints, networks, identity and access, cloud services, integration boundaries and supplier-delivered components.
- Identifying security risks, design weaknesses, dependencies, control gaps and assurance issues.
- Providing risk-informed recommendations to project teams and Workstream Leads.
- Supporting development and review of security cases, assurance evidence, risk positions and control mappings.
- Contributing to architecture assurance reviews, security working groups, risk workshops and governance forums.
- Ensuring security architecture remains coherent across assigned services, suppliers, projects and change activity
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