Cloud Security Consultant - Azure

Job Description

Cloud Security Consultant - AzureLondon - Hybrid Working 1 day per week in the office£90,000 - £110,000 + benefitsFantastic new opportunity for an experienced Cloud Security Architect with this market leading financial services business based in London. You will be joining the growing UK Cyber / Information Security Team and will help to set up and grow their securityarchitecture practice within the UK. The successful candidate will be passionate about designing secure innovative and pragmatic solutions and will value their open collaboration with stakeholders. The business have an extensive legacy estate with a CloudFirst strategy and this role will be instrumental in helping them to deliver that strategy.Main responsibilities:

• Providing guidance on all aspects of secure design, considering the security and privacy needs of customers, staff and the business itself
• Work closely with and provide input on Security Architecture to the UK & Group Architecture teams
• Providing guidance and advice on the application and implementation of the appropriate controls necessary to operate services in a mix of cloud compute and dedicated hosting environments including ensuring that applicable Enterprise and/or Industry/OEMstandards are applied in each design
• Defining application and operational requirements regarding production processes and environments, including security operations centre (SOC) and security information and event management (SIEM) integration, etc.
• Ensuring that all future designs include the appropriate resilience and controls to mitigate known risks associated with both internal and external cyber-attacks e.g. DDOS
• Providing hands-on input to feasibility studies and projects, particularly in the early design stages, to help shape high quality solutions across architecture domains and ensuring security considerations are at the heart of new designs
• Creating and maintaining high quality guidance and design documentation, working closely with solution and data architects, to support the various stages of architectural and investment approval
• Building and maintaining knowledge of the technology security landscape relevant to the UK and helping mature the baseline architecture collateral
• Driving solution design discussions with senior business stakeholders to ensure goals will be reached
• Working with application developers to ensure logical and software solution designs meet requirements, follow industry design methodologies and are aligned to best practice
• Presenting architecture documents to the UK architecture governance forum (and group equivalent where applicable) for review and approval
• Staying up to date with industry advances, opportunities and best-practices
• Working with the team to continually enhance and mature the architectural and governance processes
• Working with wider Information Security, Data Protection and Operational Security teams to ensure that organisational information security and privacy needs are "baked in" to any secure design. Where necessary, engaging these teams to provide Subject MatterExpertise.

Skills Required:

• Proven experience of working within a similar Cloud Security Architect position.
• Microsoft Certification in Security Architecture, Engineering or Administration
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure
• Proven experience designing and implementing cloud-based security solutions
• Proven experience of defining and designing solution architectures within a Financial Services or organisation with comparable security risk exposure
• Completion of relevant security qualifications (CISSP, CCSP, CEH, or comparable)
• Proven experience working as Security Architect in a large technically diverse environment
• Ability to influence decision making to surface and mitigate operational issues and risks across a wide range of stakeholders, up to and including senior management / executive
• Ability to interact proactively and confidently with all areas of business, including senior management and product owners
• Have excellent interpersonal and communication skills in both written and spoken English.
• Ability to successfully communicate complex data protection requirements to non-technical stakeholders
• TOGAF certification (desirable)

For any further queries regarding the role, please contact Danny Palmer at