Remote Security Architect for Cloud & Government Programs

Cyberfort Group; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 111,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Cyberfort Group is seeking experienced Security Architects to support secure, large-scale technology programmes within highly regulated environments. This contract role is fully remote within the UK, requiring active SC clearance and a strong Azure focus.

You will provide expert guidance across the full project lifecycle, ensuring secure by design designs and alignment to security frameworks, while working with controls testing and assurance teams to deliver effective security outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in cybersecurity, security architecture and risk management.
• Significant experience delivering security architecture within central government and/or public sector environments.
• Minimum of five years' experience in a Security Architect or senior technical security role.
• Strong knowledge of ISO 27001, NIST CSF and CIS Controls v8.
• Understanding UK Government and NCSC security standards and guidance.
• Experience securing cloud environments with a focus on Azure (Entra ID, Key Vault, Policy, IAM).
• Experience across multi-cloud environments including AWS.
• Knowledge of event-driven and microservices architectures using native cloud technologies.
• Experience conducting threat modelling and security risk assessments.

Responsibilities

• Providing expert secure design advice and guidance to projects from Discovery to deployment and retirement.
• Ensuring designs adhere to security standards, blueprints and established patterns.
• Promoting Secure by Design principles to reduce information risk across services and platforms.
• Validating design, implementation and effectiveness of security controls with testing teams.
• Delivering security architecture to support large data-driven services across private and public clouds, with Azure focus.
• Scoping and supporting IT Health Checks and penetration testing activities.
• Reviewing testing outcomes and providing recommendations, remediation guidance and action plans.
• Identifying security risks from proposed architectures and defining mitigations.
• Reviewing threat intelligence to inform security design decisions and roadmaps.
• Delivering threat modelling, security risk assessments for applications/systems/infrastructure.
• Designing security controls aligning risk to appetite using native cloud capabilities.
• Producing security architecture artefacts, standards, patterns and blueprints.

Skills

Security architecture

Cybersecurity

Risk management

Azure security

AWS security

Threat modelling

Security risk assessments

Controls testing

Cloud security

PKI & cryptography

RBAC & PAM

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Tools

Azure Entra ID

Azure Key Vault

Azure Policy

Azure IAM

AWS IAM

Job description

Cyberfort Group is seeking experienced Security Architects to support secure, large-scale technology programmes within highly regulated environments. This contract role is fully remote within the UK, requiring active SC clearance and a strong Azure focus.

You will provide expert guidance across the full project lifecycle, ensuring secure by design designs and alignment to security frameworks, while working with controls testing and assurance teams to deliver effective security outcomes.