Security Architect - Inner London - £730 per day

London  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Security Architect - Inner London - Government

Pay Rate: £730 per day

Contract Length: 5 months initially

Location: Inner London

Clearance: SC - Security Check

*PLEASE READ JOB DESCRIPTION CAREFULLY AND ONLY APPLY IF YOU SATISFY THE RELEVANT CRITERIA, APPLICATIONS FAILING TO DO SO ARE UNABLE TO BE CONSIDERED.*

Essential experience:

  • Developing and agreeing requirements and objectives for a CSOC in a government of equivalent environment
  • Leading the engagement with assessors in a large and complex environment
  • HMG security classifications, standards and practices. Delivering projects in the public sector
  • Working in a large IT services function

Desirable qualifications:

  • M.Sc (or Equiv) in Information Security Management
  • CRISC (Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control)
  • CISM (Certified Information Security Manager
  • CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional)
  • (Alternate certification bodies acceptable)

Key tasks & deliverables

  • Identifying and clarifying security requirements the CSOC is required to meet or adhere.
  • Interpreting security requirements and translating them into clear deliverables.
  • Identifying solutions and responses to the requirements.
  • Validating solutions and responses with assessors.
  • Negotiating interfaces and interactions between the CSOC, the other security work streams and the wider HOT organisation.
  • Identifying opportunities for financial savings during the delivery or operation of the CSOC.
  • Identifying opportunities for increasing the value of CSOC service

Description

The individual will drive beneficial security change into the business through the development or review of architectures so that they:

  • Fit business requirements for security;
  • Mitigate the risks and conform to the relevant security policies;
  • Balance information risk against cost of countermeasures;
  • Ensure security is implemented in a consistent way across the programme, and drive the overall design;
  • Working with agile developers and testers to review code, run and manage security tests and provide security assurance the resultant code is safe from a security perspective;
  • Working to articulate current risks against the system, the proposed mitigation and support the on-going accreditation process;
  • Creating, running and managing the security processes and procedures, both technical and not, to maintain the security of the system, personnel, and appropriate environments;
  • Security architecture for the design of secure digital services;
  • Security principles for the programme;
  • Agile development and programme staff security education;
  • Experience in delivering security within Internet facing, transactional digital services is essential;

Please Quote Ref - JSCP0083

Start date
ASAP
Duration
5 months initially
From
ABW Recruitment
Published at
25.10.2016
Project ID:
1226471
Contract type
Freelance
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