Senior Security Architect
Posted 2 days ago by Futura Design on CVLibrary
Negotiable
Inside
Undetermined
Manchester
Summary: The Senior Security Architect role at an OEM client in Manchester focuses on developing secure architectures for an IoT platform, ensuring seamless connected services. The position requires collaboration with various stakeholders to identify security risks and implement best practices in a DevSecOps environment. This is a senior role that emphasizes a strong technical background in software development or cyber security, with opportunities for skill development. The contract is initially for 12 months, with the potential for extensions, and is classified as inside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Providing consultation to product teams in security architecture and design, and conducting security reviews of new and existing products and services.
- Developing and owning architectural solutions that deliver the highest standard of security.
- Collaborating closely with the Solution Architecture team to ensure systems are secure by design.
- Working with engineering teams to create threat models.
- Maintaining strong knowledge of current security threats, mitigations, and operational security best practices.
- Developing and maintaining Security Patterns and Reference Architectures.
- Supporting the analysis of business requirements and their interpretation into security deliverables.
Key Skills:
- Background in software engineering or cyber security, with knowledge of DevSecOps.
- Familiarity with application security and threat modelling.
- Experience implementing SDLC processes, technology, and automation in a DevOps environment, ideally using OWASP best practices.
- Experience within agile delivery frameworks.
- Experience with large-scale web applications and backend services, including API design, access management, authorization, authentication, data protection, and encryption.
- Knowledge of common application and infrastructure security vulnerabilities and mitigations.
- Strong technical foundation with a business-savvy mindset.
Salary (Rate): 68.32
City: Manchester
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT