Security Architect

At Peregrine, were always seeking Specialist Talent that have the ideal mix of skills, experience, and attitude, to place with our vast array of clients. From Project Change Professionals in large government organisations to Software Developers in the private sector we are always in search of the best talent to place, now.

How Specialist Talent Works:

At Peregrine, we find the best talent for our clients. Unlike traditional contractors, where you are hired by the client, you remain a permanent employee of Peregrine, with access to all our standard benefits:

• A Permanent Position in a Market-Leading Workforce Solutions company
• Life Assurance
• 5% annual bonus
• Pension Scheme Employer matched to 5%
• Voluntary Benefits Health Cash Plan, Dental, Will Writing etc
• Annual Leave 23 days rising to 27 with length of service
• Sick Pay Increasing with length of service

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads the development of security focused architectures for complex engineering solutions, designing to agreed requirements and ensuring consistency of design and adherence to appropriate standards across multiple projects or initiatives.
• Establishes policies, principles and practices for the selection of security architecture components.
• Takes responsibility for major aspects of security control specification, standards, technologies and overall secure design models within the engineering domain.
• Produces security focused design policies, principles and criteria covering connectivity, interfacing, resilience, recovery and access.
• Provides definitive and expert advice in the specialist area of engineering into other cyber security activities, such as incident response.
• Develops secure architecture patterns for emerging technologies within the engineering domain, in line with safety, integrity and availability requirements.
• Acts as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders and influencers for cyber security architecture activities within the engineering space.
• Initiates procedures to manage security risk in accordance with business security risk appetite, recommending designs and security architectural changes that aid in risk mitigation to senior stakeholders.
• Maintains a broad understanding of the external security environment and applies this within the role.
• Coordinates the promotion, development, acquisition and implementation of security controls and services in close liaison with those responsible for management and strategy.
• Ensures system compliance with the internal standards and leverages other appropriate industry standard frameworks for support.
• Plans and delivers related security architectural activities in support of organisational and security development needs in accordance with regulatory requirements and changes in the threat landscape.
• Takes responsibility for major aspects of security specification and design within the engineering domain.
• Reports on, and analyses the cyber security metrics and KPIs gathered across the engineering domain.
• Develops plans, policies and processes and looks for continued service improvement opportunities through regular reviews of existing material within engineering.
• Maintains a strong relationship with key senior points of contact throughout the business.

Leadership Responsibilities:

• Establishes and maintain relationships with business leaders and key functional stakeholders.
• Is responsible for ensuring the Health & Safety of all your employees and that your area operates in accordance with Company Health and Safety Policies and Procedures.
• Provides an interface between the business and function, ensuring alignment to key activities within the space of engineering.
• Ensures that security architecture strategies, policies, standards and practices are applied currently to the engineering domain.
• Influences local organisation, customers, supplier, partners and peers.
• Applies technical strategies, policies, standards and practices within own area of responsibility.
• Takes on a lead role; owns specific work areas and directs others.
• Has a detailed understanding of security architecture and engineering and will work on the most complex issues with no need for supervision or support.
• Will lead work groups to resolve issues over a more extended period (weeks/months) and will carry out resource and milestone planning.
• Will support the development of future security architecture and engineering capabilities.
• Will work regularly with senior customer and supplier stakeholders and will be authoritative in such interactions.

Requirements:

• An understanding of emerging cyber requirements and cyber security threats.
• A broad and comprehensive technical knowledge of IT infrastructure and technologies, with a demonstrable specialism in Operational Technology and engineering systems.
• Excellent understanding of government and industry standard security policy, standards and best practice guidance
• Experience of working in an IT function and relevant field
• Experience defining and delivering secure architecture for systems and services
• Experience in designing secure solutions with safety in mind
• Experience in the management and delivery of key cyber security projects
• Experience of collaborating for success with key business stakeholders.
• Experience managing, controlling and reporting project deliverables to senior management audiences.
• Experience in people management.

Desirable:

• ?Professional IT Security qualifications such as Certified Information Security Manager
• (CISM) / Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP).
• Desirable: Professional Architecture qualifications such as TOGAF Practitioner / MODAF / DoDAF.
• Desirable: Chartered Engineer status (CEng)

About us:

At Peregrine, we see beyond the immediate and look to the horizon. We build lasting, meaningful partnerships with our clients, and deliver flexible solutions for every resourcing need, both now and in the future. Together, we help our clients to engage, develop and harness the skills they need to achieve and grow the workforce they want.

Our culture:

At Peregrine we embrace fresh ideas, and we love learning fast. Our solutions are trusted and established, so we have the confidence of knowing we have a solid foundation. We rely on openness and honesty, and were always ready to help each other out. And we believe that our work can benefit society whether its finding the digital talent of the future or being a driver for social mobility.

Our commitment to diversity:

At Peregrine, were proudly committed to championing diversity and inclusion, with company-wide initiatives to drive greater social mobility and reduce our environmental impact. Our teams represent a huge breadth of cultures, languages, and ethnicities, and over 20 different nationalities. We also employ candidates from a range of educational and socioeconomic backgrounds. Our partnerships with numerous charities ensure that we can stay well-informed and continue to improve our practices for the future. It reflects in the way we recruit for our clients as we assist them in becoming more diverse.

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