Cyber Security Architect

Cyber Security ArchitectUp to £75,000,
Warwickshire | 2 Days Per Week Want to design security solutions that protect some of the UK's most critical environments?This is an opportunity to join a specialist cyber security consultancy where your work will go far beyond maintaining an existing security estate.As a Cyber Security Architect, you'll work directly with customers to understand complex security challenges, identify where their current capabilities fall short and design practical, secure architectures that help them reduce risk and strengthen their overall cyber resilience.What makes this opportunity particularly interesting is the customer base. A significant proportion of the organisations you'll support operate within Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) and other highly regulated, security-conscious environments.That means the architecture you design matters.You could be helping a customer rethink their approach to identity and access, reviewing the security of a cloud environment, assessing existing controls against recognised frameworks or advising on which security technologies genuinely meet their requirements.Rather than being tied to one organisation, one environment or one technology stack, you'll get exposure to a variety of customers, challenges and security programmes.What will you be doing?You'll act as a trusted security advisor, working with technical teams, security leaders and senior stakeholders to turn complex business and security requirements into clear, achievable architecture.Your work will include developing enterprise security architectures and secure implementation patterns, reviewing existing environments, carrying out security gap analysis and helping customers understand where investment or architectural change is required.You'll also be involved in technology reviews and selection, assessing security products and capabilities without being tied to a particular vendor.Depending on the customer and project, you could find yourself working across cloud security, network security, Zero Trust, Identity and Access Management, Microsoft security technologies and wider enterprise security architecture.You'll also help customers align their security approach with recognised frameworks and standards including NIST and ISO 27001.This isn't a role where you'll spend all your time producing architecture diagrams in isolation. You'll need to be comfortable getting in front of customers, challenging requirements where appropriate and explaining technical risks and recommendations to people who may not have a technical security background.What are we looking for?We're looking for someone who already has strong experience within Cyber Security Architecture and is comfortable taking ownership of security architecture conversations from initial discovery through to recommendations and implementation guidance.You'll ideally bring experience across areas such as:

• Enterprise Cyber Security Architecture
• SC-100 / Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect
• Microsoft and cloud security
• Zero Trust architecture
• Identity and Access Management
• Network security
• Security risk and gap assessments
• NIST, ISO 27001 and wider security frameworks
• Security technology assessment and selection
• Working with senior technical and non-technical stakeholders

Previous experience within CNI, consultancy, highly regulated industries or other high-assurance environments would be particularly valuable.You don't necessarily need to have worked across every technology or framework listed. What's more important is having a strong security architecture foundation, the ability to understand unfamiliar environments quickly and the confidence to advise customers on complex security decisions.Why consider it?If you've spent the last few years working within one organisation and want greater variety, this gives you the opportunity to apply your experience across multiple environments and security challenges.You'll be joining a specialist cyber security business where security is the core focus, working alongside people who understand the technical challenges involved in delivering security within complex organisations.There's also significant exposure to Critical National Infrastructure, giving you the opportunity to work on projects where resilience and security have genuine real-world importance.The position is remote-first, giving you flexibility around where you work day to day. As this is a consultancy role, there will be occasions where customers or projects require you to attend client sites or London, so you'll need to be comfortable travelling when the business requires it.Interested?If you're a Cyber Security Architect looking for more variety, greater exposure to CNI and the opportunity to work on challenging security problems across multiple customers, I'd be keen to speak with you.