Senior Cyber Security Architect

Job Description

Job title: Senior Cyber Security Architect

Company: QinetiQ

Job description: Job Title: Senior Cyber Security Architect

Location: Any Main QinetiQ Site (Malvern / Farnborough / Bristol / Portsmouth)

Package: Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package

Role Type: Permanent

Role ID: SF15569

Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Senior Cyber Security Architect at any of our main sites where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.

The role

As a Senior Cyber Security Architect, you’ll have a role that is out of the ordinary, in which you will Deliver compelling cyber security consultancy involving the leading and supporting the design and development of secure technical system & solution architectures for our markets.

Day to day you will:

• Work in partnership with our clients to drive the security outcomes they require in their specific business context, considering impacts to their business/operations, covering all aspects of cyber security related risk and across the security and system/solution lifecycle.
• Develop conceptual security solutions, architectures, models and associated principles & approaches; devise and develop security plans, policies & processes and advise security related technology selection across a range of technologies and scenarios/environments, taking account of threat context, and business factors including affordability.
• Work collaboratively with other architect disciplines and technical experts to deliver a security viewpoint on architectures that informs design while ensuring security requirements are met and risks are addressed.
• Work collaboratively with other security practitioners to shape and influence good security architectural solutions that meet relevant governance/regulatory requirements and customer business & security outcomes.
• Lead security-related project delivery from the detailed technical level to high-level system views, including guiding security assurance & accreditation, application of government & commercial frameworks or other relevant technical guidance/best practice.

37 hours per week with hybrid / adaptive working

Essential experience of the Senior Cyber Security Architect:

• Understand security architecture modelling techniques, and how these can be applied and relate to other security modelling techniques, and how security models relate to other system design artefacts and views, and contribute to a whole system design.
• Able to design secure solutions taking account of security outcomes, business requirements and constraints, relevant threat context and relevant security regulation & governance.
• Good knowledge of current and emerging security technology (e.g. firewalls, AV, PKI, applied cryptography, secure gateways) and how to apply it.
• Understand security architecture principles, currently recognised good practice, and application of architectural patterns, applicable to UK Government, defence and critical infrastructure markets.

Qualifications for the Senior Cyber Security Architect:

We value difference and we do not have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

Our Benefits

• Adaptive and flexible working
• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave.
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant.
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering – helping charities and local community.

Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those which help the defence community.

Application Guidance

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please contact your regional recruiting team in strictest confidence. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in an= diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.

About QinetiQ

As a company of thousands of dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Security

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information, which mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Expected salary:

Location: Farnborough, Hampshire – Bristol Area

Job date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 06:30:03 GMT

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