Security Architect

Hitachi Digital Services; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company dedicated to transforming healthcare through technology. As a Security Engineer/Architect, you'll be pivotal in enhancing security measures for a vital national service. Your expertise in Azure and security engineering will help design and implement robust security controls, ensuring compliance with government standards. Collaborate with diverse teams, manage stakeholder relationships, and educate others on security best practices. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the healthcare sector while enjoying a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Flexible Work Arrangements

Industry-Leading Benefits

Holistic Health Support

Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives

Qualifications

• CISSP certification and extensive experience in security engineering.
• Proven ability to manage relationships with stakeholders effectively.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement security controls for the managed tenant.
• Investigate security breaches and coordinate response actions.
• Educate the team on secure design and coding principles.

Skills

Security Engineering

Azure Cloud

CISSP Certification

Stakeholder Management

Communication Skills

Compliance with NCSC Standards

Job description

Are you passionate about making a difference in healthcare through technology? As a CISSP certified Security Engineer/Architect, you'll play a crucial role as part of an Azure cloud modernisation programme, responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining security measures for the National Breast Screening Service in the UK.

As well as an extensive technical skill set, you'll have experience of building and managing relationships with key stakeholders in a complex organisation, ensuring effective communication within the security framework at NHS England.

You will be adept at managing and working with near-shore and off-shore technology teams in order to successfully deliver security solutions.

You will also have a deep understanding and experience of UK NCSC Government guidelines and standards in order to ensure compliance throughout.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Designing and implementing security controls for the managed tenant and service layer.
• Validating the design for the nearshore facility and overseeing all audit requirements requested by the NHSE CISO.
• Creating the System Level Security Policy (SLSP) for NBSS.
• Documenting and enforcing security policies and procedures to ensure compliance with NCSC standards and regulations.
• Investigating security breaches, analysing logs and network traffic to detect suspicious activity, and coordinating response actions to minimize damage.
• Educating the team on secure design and coding principles and ensuring adherence to these.
• Collaborating with NHS England to design penetration tests.

What You'll Bring to the Team:

• CISSP certification.
• Extensive security engineering or architectural experience in Azure.
• Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining security measures.
• Proven ability to build and manage relationships with key stakeholders in a complex organisation.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Deep understanding and experience with UK NCSC Government guidelines and standards.

*Please note that successful applicants will be required to pass Security Check (SC) clearance for this role. In order to be considered, you must have resided in the UK for a minimum of 5 years.*

About Us:

We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.

Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion:

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.

How we look after you:

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.