Job Title: Security Architect – Contract

Location: Manchester

Salary: Competitive

The Company

An IT Consultancy and Top 50 best companies to work for in Manchester are looking for a Security Architect to work from their new state of the art offices in the heart of the City Centre. This fast-growing organisation is recording revenue growth year on year since their establishment in 2015. With a culture of staff development, they are keen to develop their people and offer regular training and development which they believe is key to progression and staff retention. This has seen their team grow to over 50 professionals in a variety of roles. Additionally, they pride themselves on looking after their people and offer flexible working to ease the stress of a busy daily commute.

About the Security Architect role

As a Security Architect you will be the focal point and a key decision maker for their versatile and evolving Security Solutions. As a Security Architect, you will report directly into the CISO and work closely with the architecture team to provide new, innovative solutions to an ever-growing portfolio of customers from a number of different industry sectors. In a customer facing role you will lead, inspire and champion the design, creation and oversee the implementation.

• Able to engage confidently with varying levels of stakeholders
• Designing and delivering physical and policy based security solutions
• A strong understanding of threat mitigation and vulnerability testing
• Adhering to architecture and design principles, standards, compliance requirements whilst maintaining high levels of quality
• Oversea IT security risk assessments
• End to end solution design

Skills & experience for the Security Architect role

• SC cleared
• 5-10 years experience
• Strong knowledge of implementing Snort
• In-depth knowledge of SIEM
• Cloud knowledge of AWS

If you are a Security Architect looking for a new and exciting opportunity with one of London’s top IT Consultancy business, please feel free to apply.