DV Cleared Security Architect — Defence & Cloud Security Lead

Sanderson; West of England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Enhanced pension

Private medical insurance

Flexible working

Professional development support

Job summary

Sanderson, Farnborough, UK, is seeking a Security Architect with Developed Vetting (DV) clearance to design and implement defence-grade security architectures for government and defence IT environments. The role requires leading security programmes, ensuring compliance with MOD requirements, and delivering end-to-end security strategies across networks, applications and data.

You will drive threat-informed design, risk management and secure SDLC practices while shaping security governance,

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years’ information security experience with 5+ years in architecture role.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale security architectures.
• Strong background in defence, aerospace or government security programmes.
• Demonstrated expertise with security operations, incident response and threat management.
• Track record of leading security transformation and programme implementations.

Responsibilities

• Design holistic security architectures across people, process and technology security.
• Develop enterprise-wide security strategies aligned with Defence Security Policy.
• Architect defence-in-depth security solutions across network, application, data and endpoint layers.
• Lead security architecture reviews and technical security assessments.
• Design zero-trust security models and continuous verification frameworks.
• Assess cyber threat landscape and design threat-informed security architectures.
• Lead security risk assessments and vulnerability management programmes.
• Design incident response, threat intelligence and cyber defence capabilities.
• Architect security monitoring, detection and response solutions.
• Design business continuity and cyber resilience frameworks.

Skills

Security architecture

Defence security

Risk management

Threat modelling

Security governance

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

SIEM

DLP

EDR

WAF

Firewalls

Cloud security

Job description

Sanderson, Farnborough, UK, is seeking a Security Architect with Developed Vetting (DV) clearance to design and implement defence-grade security architectures for government and defence IT environments. The role requires leading security programmes, ensuring compliance with MOD requirements, and delivering end-to-end security strategies across networks, applications and data.

You will drive threat-informed design, risk management and secure SDLC practices while shaping security governance,