Senior Cyber Security Architect (DV Cleared)

Senior Cyber Security Architect (DV Cleared)
Contract Length: 18 months
Location: Aldermaston – 100% on site
Hourly Pay Rate to Candidate: £600 per day – Inside IR35

Security Clearance: Active DV – Sole UK National – not negotiable, SC will not be acceptable.

AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.

Key Accountabilities:
• Provide analysis of risks to information systems in order to inform risk owners and project managers to allow effective decision making.
• Provide expert subject matter advice to CISO and other elements of the IS management chain.
• Ensure IT projects are provided with timely technical security advice.
• Develop and apply the overall security architecture of the organisation and the place within in it of key security controls.
• Maintains and promotes high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security, and quality and be a great team player.

Key Responsibilities:
• Provide the AWE lead for maintaining awareness of HMG, MoD and industry best practice in Information Assurance and Information Risk Management.
• Determine how the overall security architecture applies to projects under consideration and advise project solution architects on security requirements.
• Review high- and low-level solution designs for compliance with overall security architecture, achievement of security requirements and overall efficacy of the security features and tools.
• Facilitate the formal accreditation by MoD of AWE corporate systems and of other specified AWE systems.
• Interfaces between AWE and the NCSC.
• Assist with IT Health Check and Vulnerability Assessments by approving scope of tests and overall testing programme.
• Provide technical risk assessment analysis.
• Develop the professionalism of Information Risk Management within AWE.
• Attend project Security Working Groups and manage when appropriate.

Minimum Requirement:
• Active DV clearance
• Sole UK National
• Experience as a Security Architect
• Has worked in a defence industry previously, eg MOD, AWE
• Security Analyst skills
• Good working knowledge
§ Firewalls
§ DevOps
§ Cloud
§ intrusion detection systems (IDS)
§ intrusion prevention systems (IPS)
§ Experience more important than qualifications
§ Has worked in highly classified environments
§ Endpoint detection
• Technical background
• Stakeholder Management
• Hands on with security tooling
• Can work autonomously and as part of a team
• Use initiative, ask right questions, flag issues, fit into project