Senior Security Architect - DWP - G7Manchester Digital • Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Senior Security Architect - DWP - G7
Manchester Digital
- Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- Manchester, England, United Kingdom
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About the job
Important : This role requires you to pass a Security Check clearance. For further information, see 'Selection process details'. The position is part of the Health & Disability team and the Identity & Trust team.
As a Security Architect you will use a blend of technical security knowledge, architecture design, and development skills to help secure services used by millions of people against cyber threats. DWP is a huge and complex organisation with unique architectural and security challenges.
This role will involve identity for DWP through online channels. A CISSP certification or a Master's degree in Information Security is highly desirable.
Job Description The Security Architect will provide guidance across the following activities:
Scoping IT Health Checks and providing guidance in risk assessment.
Providing security guidance and checking the cloud posture management platform for vulnerabilities.
Advising on online identity and verification and telephone based identity and verification projects.
Serving as a strategic advisor to Health & Disability and Identity & Trust teams.
Building relationships with other teams, the security community and the design authority.
Person Specification
Security Architecture design and modelling techniques, tools and standards.
Application and Cloud Security.
Enterprise scale IT experience in at least one recent security architect role in a complex large scale, national or multi-national organisation.
Network Security: knowledge of network protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF) and experience configuring secure routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers.
Threat analysis and mitigation: expertise in identifying and mitigating cyber threats, including the use of advanced threat detection tools (e.g., SIEM, IDS/IPS, endpoint detection systems).
Encryption & Cryptography: use of encryption technologies (e.g., SSL/TLS, IPsec, Kerberos, VPNs, PKI) to secure data in transit and at rest.
Knowledge of AuthN/AuthZ (OIDC, OAuth, JWT, SAML).
Knowledge of Cloud Native technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab).
Behaviours
Leadership
Working Together
Communicating and Influencing
Technical skills
Analysis (Practitioner)
Research and innovation (Practitioner)
Designing secure systems (Practitioner)
Enabling and informing risk‑based decisions (Practitioner)
Security technology (Expert)
Understanding security implications of transformation (Practitioner)
Communication (security architect) (Practitioner)
Seniorities & Details
Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
Employment type: Full‑time
Job function: Information Technology
Industries: Technology, Information and Internet
If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact Mark.Harbottle@dwp.gov.uk.
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Sprachkenntnisse
- English
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