Senior Solution Architect: Enterprise Key & Secrets

ShowTime Consulting; Canberra; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Showtime Consulting is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead the design, integration and assurance of enterprise security solutions for Key Management and Secret Management in a highly secure government environment.

You will shape secure, scalable architectures across security, cloud, infrastructure and application domains, providing governance, roadmaps and hands-on guidance to delivery teams and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 10+ years leading solution architecture in complex enterprise security programs.
• Experience designing and integrating enterprise key management, secrets management, PKI or cryptographic solutions.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture methodologies, security architecture frameworks and system integration principles.
• Experience across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and governance at senior levels.
• Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, Cyber Security, CS, Engineering or related discipline, or equivalent demonstrated experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end solution architectures for Enterprise Key Management and Secret Management capabilities.
• Design secure architectures supporting cryptographic key lifecycle management, secret storage, certificate management and privileged access integration.
• Develop architecture artefacts including solution designs, security models, integration patterns, infrastructure designs, data flows and technical roadmaps.
• Design secure integration patterns for applications, CI/CD pipelines, container platforms and cloud services.
• Conduct architecture assessments, option analyses, technology evaluations and technical risk assessments.
• Provide architectural governance and assurance through design reviews, technical reviews and security assessments.
• Ensure solutions incorporate security, scalability, resilience, high availability and operational support requirements.
• Support the implementation and integration of enterprise key and secret management platforms.
• Lead proof-of-concept activities and pilot deployments to validate architectural decisions.
• Develop migration strategies from legacy key and credential management approaches to modern centralised platforms.
• Apply zero-trust and defence-in-depth principles to the protection of cryptographic material.
• Design appropriate audit, logging and monitoring capabilities for key usage, access and lifecycle events.
• Support security accreditation, certification and associated documentation activities.
• Collaborate with technical teams, security stakeholders, project teams and vendors throughout delivery.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to implementation teams.

Skills

Enterprise security

Solution architecture

Key management

Secrets management

PKI & cryptography

Cloud security

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Tertiary IT/Cyber Security/CS/Engineering or related

Tools

Azure Key Vault

HashiCorp Vault

CyberArk

Job description

Showtime Consulting is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to lead the design, integration and assurance of enterprise security solutions for Key Management and Secret Management in a highly secure government environment.

You will shape secure, scalable architectures across security, cloud, infrastructure and application domains, providing governance, roadmaps and hands-on guidance to delivery teams and stakeholders.