Join Police Digital Service as Cyber Architect. Starting salary - £65,000
About Police Digital Service
To protect people from harm in our rapidly changing world, police services must not only keep up with technology and business changes but develop capabilities and ways of working that will enable them to adapt to and deal with the complexity of modern criminality.
Police Digital Service strives to be the go-to partner for technology developments and programmes across UK policing. Our team provides technical advice and delivers services to help policing and law enforcement organisations across the UK prioritise and focus on technology efforts.
Our vision is to support UK policing to keep people safe, get more from technology investments and make better use of public money, and we're always on the lookout for great talent to help us achieve this.
Key Responsibilities
A Cyber Architect will have responsibility to ensure National Policing systems and services have a clear strategic direction for Information Security and Risk (IS&R), through enterprise security architectural services, design services and carrying out product assessment and selection, including:
? Serve as a senior expert to provide technical guidance and leadership on all aspects of security architecture.
? Be a key member of the PDS Enterprise Architecture community ensuring that security is a core part of our architecture model and keeping the community updated with pertinent security architecture developments.
? Define cyber standards, frameworks and guidelines, as well as a "route to compliance".
? Provision of security design for National Policing solutions.
? Work with the SLT, sponsors and other stakeholders on the assessment and selection of security products for use in National Policing.
The CA will develop and maintain productive relationships within the PDS, and with police Enterprise Architecture communities, key stakeholders, partners, and suppliers to influence and gain consensus of approach on the DDaT "way forward" in meeting the needs of law enforcement from a local, regional and national perspective.
What you need to succeed in the role
Essential
A minimum of 3 years of proven, demonstrable and current experience in a Security Architect role in large and complex organisation with equally complex service requirements.
Proven experience of delivering security in one or more of the following cloud service provider environments: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Strong experience building security reference architecture for ?all-in' public cloud deployments and hybrid scenarios, including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. This will include requirements definition, architecture development, development of use cases and playbooks, systems integration, and testing.
Experience in defining and/or implementing security controls across multiple layers of the IT architecture stack.
Experience of working in a security architecture team, including the production of design documentation (HLDs, LLDs, blueprints etc.), supporting cloud architecture, design, implementation, operations, and automation in Azure AWS and GCP.
Strong knowledge and ability to demonstrate the use of the NIST Cyber Security Framework, mapping and translating NIST Cyber Security Controls to other frameworks such as ISO27001 and CIS Top 20 controls, including understanding of the Azure Cloud Adoption Framework.
Proven ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities, whilst maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail.
Experience working with public sector/police/HMG clients.
Demonstrate ability to think strategically whilst having a strong focus on ICT security and operational service delivery.
Desirable
Microsoft technical certifications: Azure Solutions Architect, Azure Security Engineer, 365 Security Administrator.
AWS technical certifications: AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Security.
Diversity, equity and inclusion
We are committed to equal opportunities for all and will not discriminate on any grounds. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible span of experience. All applicants will be considered without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, parental status, nationality, neurodiversity or disability status.
Working Arrangements
This is a remote role with occasional travel required to attend meetings.
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