AddressThe Enterprise Security Architect is a vital part of a small but impactful team. You will ensure that both planned and operational IT services meet the necessary levels of confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute to expertise across various technologies and platforms to develop architectural standards, patterns, and guidelines that enhance information security within the organisation.
- Determine security requirements by evaluating business strategies, researching information security standards, conducting system security and vulnerability analyses and preparing cost estimates.
- Consult with business and technical stakeholders to identify risks, threats, and appropriate controls for new and existing services.
- This includes applying industry best practices and standards, policies and procedures, as well as testing and disaster recovery measures.
- Assist in developing threat models for key information assets and business processes. Highlight potential threat actors and attack vectors, and implement these models to identify and prioritize mitigating controls.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to identify risks, threats, and controls.
- Support assessments of emerging security capabilities to ensure architectural standards and capability roadmaps remain current.
- Keep abreast of current security and risk practices in the IT industry, particularly around ISO 27001, NIST CSF, project, and operational risk management.
- Professional certifications such as CISSP or SABSA, or relevant experience, in Security Architecture and solution architecture.
- Significant relevant experience in managed and regulated environments.
- Sound understanding of ICT risk and security practices, networks, computer operating systems, application platforms, and cloud environments.
- Strong experience in architecting, designing, and constructing Security Architecture Frameworks, with demonstrated expertise in information security and/or IT risk management.
- Demonstrated commitment to providing high-level customer service, including the ability to build effective relationships with stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to prepare professional documentation for various audiences.
- Strong research, analytical, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to identify solutions to challenging issues.
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