Summary: The Azure Security Architect will be engaged in a 3-month contract role, focusing on the design and governance of secure solutions within the Azure Landing Zone team for a leading utilities provider. This position requires active SC clearance and is fully remote, with the candidate needing to be based in the UK. The role emphasizes security architecture leadership and collaboration with various teams to enhance cloud security practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead security architecture and governance for Azure Landing Zones.
• Provide expert security advisory to cloud architects, engineers, and operational teams.
• Conduct security architecture reviews, risk assessments, and threat modelling activities.
• Design and embed security controls within Azure Landing Zone frameworks and services.
• Maintain and evolve security patterns, guardrails, and reference architectures.
• Ensure security integration across cloud roadmaps and organisational goals.
• Champion security culture, provide training, and support platform security maturity.

Key Skills:

• Extensive experience working on projects delivering solutions and migrations to Microsoft Azure.
• Strong understanding of Azure landing zone architectures, governance, security and best practices for scalable cloud environments.
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification AZ-305 and AZ-400.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT