Security Architect

at  Cabinet Office

JOB SUMMARY

The Cabinet Office supports the Prime Minister and ensures the effective running of government. It is also the corporate headquarters for government, in partnership with HM Treasury, and takes the lead in certain critical policy areas.
We are the Cabinet Office’s cyber security team, and our mission is to secure the department (including its arms length bodies) against cyber threats. We protect our nationwide internal IT infrastructure, and high-profile citizen-facing digital services.
Find out more about the work Cabinet Office gets involved in at the and Technology in Government blog.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are seeking an experienced security architect to join the department’s Cyber and Information Security function. As a key member of the security architecture team you will be responsible for designing security controls and identifying security solutions that supports the Department’s business objectives. You will be providing specialist advice to assist the department’s IT and digital services to be secure by design. This role reports to the Head of Security Architecture.
Our security architects are trusted advisors for security, responsible for delivering both hands-on solutions and providing information and cyber security advice.
You will work within the central cyber security function and across the Cabinet Office in this fast-paced and diverse role. You’ll be instrumental in implementing appropriately secure systems, security tooling and other solutions to solve cyber security problems.
The security architect role is part of the Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) Profession in the Civil Service.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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