Senior Cyber Security Architect

Northbridge Recruitment; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 257,000 - 368,000; Full time

Job summary

Northbridge Recruitment seeks a Senior Cyber Security Architect for a 6-month contract in Australia’s ANZ region. You will partner with ICT, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud and Engineering to ensure solutions align to enterprise blueprints and embed Secure by Design across the organisation.

The role requires a strong EA background, deep cloud security experience (AWS with Azure exposure), and the ability to translate global standards into regional designs while guiding remediation and security

Qualifications

• Must be Australian Citizen to gain Security Clearance.
• Strong Enterprise Architecture experience in a large, complex enterprise.
• Excellent understanding of enterprise cyber security architecture and security principles.
• Deep cloud experience across AWS with Azure exposure.
• Experience translating enterprise blueprints into regional designs across ANZ.
• Strong Secure by Design experience embedding security into ICT teams.
• DevSecOps knowledge and security integration into delivery practices.
• Experience with Microsoft security technologies and AWS security services.
• Broad understanding of enterprise networking, identity, and Microsoft 365 security.

Responsibilities

• Define, adopt and embed Secure by Design principles and security architecture standards across ICT teams.
• Work with enterprise architecture blueprints and reference architectures established by HQ/global teams, aligning with ANZ requirements.
• Review existing solution designs to ensure alignment with blueprints, security standards and patterns.
• Identify architecture gaps, security risks and deviations; implement remediation with technical teams.
• Develop and maintain reusable security architecture patterns across cloud, network, identity, and security tooling.
• Provide security guidance across AWS and Azure cloud environments, focusing on AWS.
• Support design and implementation of secure cloud environments, landing zones, identity controls, and network segmentation.
• Apply DevSecOps principles to embed security into engineering and delivery processes.
• Review designs to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and roadmaps.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Cloud architecture (AWS/Azure)

Secure by Design

DevSecOps

Microsoft security tech

AWS security services

Palo Alto

Networking & IAM

Australian Citizenship

Job description

THIS IS IT: Join a rapidly expanding & customer centric company that is investing heavily in Technology Transformation & Migration Programs. This sought-after Construction & Engineering Org is booming. They offer a fun, innovative & empowering company culture. Hybrid Flexibility, 4 days onsite.

We have a (6-Month Contract - Extend) Senior Cyber Security Architect role available.

You will work closely with ICT, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud and Engineering teams to ensure technology solutions align with the enterprise blueprint, while defining and embedding Secure by Design principles across the organisation.

This requires a strong Enterprise Architecture background and deep understanding of Cloud Architecture, particularly AWS, and enterprise cyber security.

This requires a Security Architect who understands enterprise blueprints, architecture patterns and technology roadmaps, and can translate centrally defined architecture standards into practical designs and implementation across ANZ.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, adopt and embed Secure by Design principles and security architecture standards across ICT teams.
• Work with enterprise architecture blueprints and reference architectures established by global/HQ teams, ensuring alignment with ANZ requirements and technology roadmaps.
• Review existing solution designs and deployed environments to ensure they align with approved architecture blueprints, security standards and design patterns.
• Identify architecture gaps, security risks and deviations, and work with technical teams to implement appropriate remediation.
• Develop and maintain reusable security architecture patterns across cloud, network, identity, Microsoft 365 and security tooling.
• Provide security architecture guidance across AWS and Azure cloud environments, with a particular focus on AWS.
• Support the design and implementation of secure cloud environments, landing zones, identity controls, network segmentation and security guardrails.
• Apply DevSecOps principles to ensure security is integrated into technology design, engineering and delivery processes.
• Work with ICT and engineering teams to review solution designs, provide architectural direction and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.

Experience Required

• Must be Australian Citizen to gain Security Clearance
• Strong Enterprise Architecture experience, ideally within a large, complex enterprise environment.
• Excellent understanding of enterprise cyber security architecture and security principles.
• Deep cloud architecture and security experience, particularly across AWS, with exposure to Microsoft Azure.
• Experience working with enterprise architecture blueprints, reference architectures, design patterns and technology roadmaps.
• Understanding of how global/HQ architecture standards are translated into regional designs and implemented across ANZ.
• Experience reviewing existing technology solutions and validating that designs and implementations align with approved blueprints and architecture patterns.
• Strong understanding of Secure by Design principles and experience embedding these into ICT teams and technology delivery.
• DevSecOps knowledge, including integrating security requirements into engineering and delivery practices.
• Experience across Microsoft security technologies, AWS security services and ideally Palo Alto technologies.
• Broad understanding of enterprise networking, identity and access management, Microsoft 365 security and security tooling.