Cybersecurity Solutions Architect: Cloud & Kubernetes

Thrive IT Systems; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Thrive IT Systems in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Solution Architect to lead the technical design of secure systems and services within our assessment and testing environment.

You will drive secure development practices, review architectural designs for risk and compliance, and mentor engineering teams on security technologies across Kubernetes and GCP environments, ensuring alignment with governance and CI/CD processes.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in information security and IT risk management with a focus on security performance and reliability.
• At least 5 years of experience designing and owning application and service architectures.
• Strong experience across infrastructure, application, process and integration architecture layers.
• Strong expertise in cloud technologies and integration with on-premises data centres.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes and GCP.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design of systems and services within the Cybersecurity Assessment and Testing environment.
• Review change requests and solution designs to identify architectural concerns, business requirement gaps, security risks and control-related issues.
• Ensure new solutions comply with secure development strategies, security architecture standards and control principles.
• Develop and maintain architectural artefacts including Architecture Impact Assessments, External Hosting Considerations and Solution Design Documents.
• Drive functional, nonfunctional, technical and architectural requirements aligned with business needs and security strategy.
• Guide the integration of cloud and on-premises platforms, particularly Kubernetes and GCP environments.
• Support architecture across application, infrastructure, process and service layers and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Cybersecurity, Business Analysis and Enterprise Architecture teams; influence senior stakeholders.

Skills

Cybersecurity solution architecture

Cloud Kubernetes & hybrid architecture

Vulnerability management integration

Job description

Thrive IT Systems in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Solution Architect to lead the technical design of secure systems and services within our assessment and testing environment.

You will drive secure development practices, review architectural designs for risk and compliance, and mentor engineering teams on security technologies across Kubernetes and GCP environments, ensuring alignment with governance and CI/CD processes.