Job Description

• Instrumental in design and enforce security by design.
• Policy and procedure creation and updates/improvements
• Cloud Security Governance
• Metric reporting
• Security Controls

Key Responsibilities

• Providing security advice, requirements and guidance to the business when delivering new systems or updates to existing, to ensure Security by design.
• Performing security-focused risk assessment on new systems/services and changes to existing to ensure they are within risk tolerance.
• Working with the business to review designs and ensure that they are in line with existing security principles, patterns, standards, and best practice.
• Work with the business to define, document and implement core security patterns, standards, and guidelines.
• Reviewing the current security processes within your area of focus, to ensure optimization and coverage.
• Be the initial security point of contact for your region and route any questions to the relevant teams.
• Work with the wider security architecture team to ensure a standardized approach to security is defined and followed.
• Collaborate with IT teams to make sure the correct security controls and measures are in place before implementation.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, IT engineering, or related field 
• An MSc Information Security or equivalent would be an advantage. 
• Information Security and/or Information Technology certifications such as CISSP etc. are desirable, also acceptable is having experience in this area, any security certification, CISSP may not be relevant in the SA market
• Azure Security Certifications are preferred: Azure knowledge is important. AWS is also ok. Understanding how firewalls work rather than building them.
• Experience of common frameworks such as NIST, CIS, ISO27k and MITRE: Azure knowledge is important. AWS is also ok. Understanding how firewalls work rather than building them.
• Experience in using SABSA valuable: Azure knowledge is important. AWS are also ok. Understanding how firewalls work rather than building them.
• Review solution designs and recognize security concerns.
• Work with vendors to understand the mitigations and make recommendations.
• Be able to pragmatically review and understand where the security risk could outweigh the business benefits.
• Represent both the business to security and security to the business.
• Help make the business understand the importance of considering security in designs.
• Ability to support the business in the delivery of security requirements.
• Understanding of Threat Modelling frameworks and implementation e.g., STRIDE
• Ability to deconstruct complex environments and navigate conflicting project requirements.
• Work with the wider security team to mature security processes and patterns.
• Prior experience working in Information security is essential. 
• Prior experience of working as a security architect is essential.
• Prior experience of creating security artefacts is preferred.