Remote Cloud Security Architect & Advisory

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit share scheme

Flexible/remote working

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Version 1 is seeking a hands-on Security Consultant who can combine deep technical delivery capability with strong client-facing consulting skills. The ideal candidate will assess, design, improve and govern security controls across cloud environments, applications, APIs, infrastructure and enterprise security domains.

The role requires challenging customer security assumptions, influencing stakeholders, and leading difficult conversations to drive secure outcomes.

Qualifications

• Cloud security architecture and control design.
• Security assessments, gap analysis and remediation planning.
• Stakeholder engagement and client advisory.
• Security architecture documentation and reporting.
• Risk-based decision making and prioritisation.

Responsibilities

• Assess current-state security maturity, identify control gaps, and define pragmatic remediation roadmaps aligned to business priorities.
• Lead and support security architecture reviews across cloud, applications, infrastructure, IAM, data protection and detection/response domains.
• Provide expert consulting to customers on security strategy, risk reduction, control design, and security operating model improvements.
• Challenge weak security assumptions with confidence, using evidence-based recommendations and clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Design and review secure cloud landing zones, network segmentation, identity models, logging/monitoring patterns, and guardrails.
• Partner with engineering, platform, DevOps and operations teams to embed security into delivery pipelines and infrastructure as code practices.
• Support threat detection, incident response readiness, use-case tuning, and post-incident improvement activities.
• Contribute to security standards, policies, patterns, reusable accelerators, and client-facing deliverables including assessments, risk registers and executive summaries.
• Required Hands-On Experience sections are reflected in the core responsibilities and emphasize practical security controls across cloud, apps, IAM, SIEM, data protection and IaC.

Skills

Cloud security architecture

Security assessments

Stakeholder engagement

Security architecture documentation

Risk-based decision making

Job description

Version 1 is seeking a hands-on Security Consultant who can combine deep technical delivery capability with strong client-facing consulting skills. The ideal candidate will assess, design, improve and govern security controls across cloud environments, applications, APIs, infrastructure and enterprise security domains.

The role requires challenging customer security assumptions, influencing stakeholders, and leading difficult conversations to drive secure outcomes.