Cybersecurity Strategist

This organisation is dedicated to delivering a live service that ensures minimal disruption to customers' lives during energy shortages. They are leaders in their industry for community support and have invested significantly in their technical teams to enhance service reliability.

You will be responsible for implementing and managing the security infrastructure as an IT Security Architect. This involves defining the organisation's security strategy, architecture, and practices, identifying IT Security risks, and translating these into technical control requirements. You will manage outcomes to deliver the required objectives and ensure that security measures are incorporated into strategic IT plans.

• Develop and maintain security architecture artifacts to leverage security capabilities in projects and operations.
• Consult with IS architects, management, security staff, and business units to integrate security into hardware, applications, and service configurations.
• Drive continuous improvement in IT and business processes related to IS Security, ensuring compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements.
• Develop a security architecture process that aligns security solutions and capabilities with business, technology, regulatory, and threat drivers.
• Provide advice on effective security strategies and counsel on security policies and practices to business stakeholders and support teams.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Strong experience in IT solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, application development, or cloud development.
• Proven experience in developing architecture blueprints, strategies, and roadmaps.
• Strong working knowledge of conducting threat-modelling exercises for new applications and services.
• Practical knowledge of the information security standards domain.
• Experience working with external audit and certification organisations.
• Familiarity with the ISO27001 standard and knowledge of the NIS regulation and NCSC cyber assurance framework (CAF).
• Understanding of digitalisation in a regulated environment and experience managing complex projects.
• Knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies (e.g., waterfall, agile, DevOps).

The estimated salary for this role is £60,000 - £80,000 per annum. Additionally, you will receive a 15% performance bonus, 15% pension contribution, 25 days annual leave, hybrid working, professional development opportunities, access to the latest tools and technologies, and a supportive and collaborative work environment.