Security Architect

Role Overview

Role overview

The Security Architect leads assurance of cyber resilience controls and provides information security architecture consultancy to multiple customer projects for new and revised Cloud services, back-office systems and hardware devices within bids and projects. The role will work closely with systems and project engineers, developers, bid teams, internal/ external business stakeholders and project managers across functions both regionally and globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Ensure customer security requirements and responses are developed with engineering and business development teams for customer bids
• Lead Cubic security response to customer variation requests and ensure customer understanding of the impact of their request against new and existing security risks.
• Lead the delivery of design and build / operations and maintenance budget requirements for customer bids and variation requests. Ensures financial requirements for cyber resilience controls and security labour estimates are presented in cost models presented to senior Cubic leadership.
• Lead assurance to ensure security requirements are developed by DevOps, system engineers and other project team staff and are implemented according to Cubic cyber resilience engineering policies and customer needs and ensure that these requirements are supportable and clearly documented.
• Leads all security risk assessment / business impact analysis/ audit for new and existing business applications or IT infrastructure and leads advice and guidance on the application and operation of physical, procedural and technical security controls within all engineering and IT solutions.
• Lead information security assurance within design gateways and service transition/ change boards.
• Champion best practices for application and infrastructure/ architecture design principles for the use of existing and new information security technologies across customer systems.
• Assure appropriate security support processes are delivered by projects to support service transition.Some manual handling may occasionally be required
• May be required to work on other Cubic sites and datacentres
• Comply with Cubic’s values and adherence to all company policy and procedures. In particular, comply with the code of conduct, quality, security and occupational health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.
• In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by their manager from time-to-time, as may be reasonably required of them.

Requirements

Minimum Job Requirements:

Qualifications

Essential:

• Degree or equivalent qualifications/experience
• Certification as an Information Security professional (e.g. IISP/CISA/CISM/CISSP/CCSP/ ISA)
• Current driving licence

Desirable:

• A university degree in a numerate subject (e.g. computer science, maths, engineering, natural science)
• Information privacy/ data protection – CIPPE/ + CIPM
• HMG IA qualifications/ CLAS; CREST-registered penetration tester and/or security architect
• ITIL v3/ Prince2 foundation level/ TOGAF
• Security and IT infrastructure/ networking vendors’ certifications

Skills/Experience/Knowledge:

Essential:

• Solid exposure of taking a leading role in the establishment and implementation of security architecture, policies and procedures.
• Experience of secure development lifecycles (SDLC)
• Good understanding of enterprise-scale security management process and infrastructure
• Exposure to current IT Security standards and regulations such as PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, SOX, DPA
• Exposure to enterprise IT infrastructure and tools (e.g. MS Windows Server, Cisco, Oracle Solaris, Linux)
• Superior network infrastructure and protocol knowledge

Desirable:

• Experience of transactional revenue, embedded, smartcards and mobile payment systems
• Knowledge / experience of security architecture of major public cloud services e.g. Microsoft Azure,
• Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Cloud Access Service Brokers e.g. Okta
• Knowledge of cryptographic services
• Knowledge of wider security, audit, risk and compliance standards e.g. PCI-P2PE, PCI-POI-PTS, ISO 27701, ISO27005, ISO31000, NIST, GDPR and governance/ risk/ compliance tools
• Requirements analysis and tracing tools such as DOORS and SD Elements; OneTrust privacy tool
• Understanding of security within DevOps and waterfall project methods, product development
• Experience of application security testing tools and DevOps frameworks, e.g. SonarQube, JIRA, static & dynamic code analysis/ “fuzzing”
• Development tools/ environments; Java, Visual Studio, C#
• In depth understanding of information security control tools, e.g. Splunk, Crowdstrike, Trend Micro
• DeepSecurity, Imperva WAF, Tenable.IO/ Nessus, TripWire, Cisco IPS, F5, Centrify
• Experience of quality management systems and external audit standards e.g. ISO 9001, ISAE3402

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Java
• Linux
• Oracle
• SDLC
• Splunk

Benefits

• Holidays: 25 days per annum + 8 days bank holidays (options to buy/sell days).
• Pension – 4% employee and 4% employer.
• Private medical insurance (including dental & optical).
• Life assurance.
• Income protection.
• Employee assistance programs.
• Flexible/remote working options.
• Charitable initiatives.
• Social events (formal & informal).
• Learning and development programs.
• Innovative & collaborative work environment.

Indra is an equal employment opportunity employer. Applicants are considered without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, origin, disability or other characteristics protected by law.