SC Cleared Security Architect

Role: Lead Cyber Security Engineer
Remote
SC: Yes
Start: 13/7
Finish 4/1
Rate: £600
SC Clearance is needed

You will
- Establish a secure, scalable, and well-governed developer tooling landscape, with an initial focus on the GitHub Enterprise estate, alongside improved governance and management of core tools such as PagerDuty, Docker (and more)
- Deliver infrastructure-as-code–managed toolchain, enabling repeatable configuration, improved auditability of changes, and effective drift detection across GitHub and broader developer tooling
- Contribute to a continuously improving developer platform, using operational insight and developer feedback (including experience surveys) to evolve tooling, standards, patterns, guidance and governance over time
- Identify and mitigate security risks in tool configuration, integration, and usage patterns, reducing the likelihood of misconfiguration and privilege misuse.
- Ensure secure-by-default configuration, patterns and guardrails are embedded into tooling and are easily consumable by development teams.
- Ensuring tools are configured and operated in line with government and organisational security standards.
- Working with the SOC team to help improve the monitoring and alerting across our critical tools
- Ensuring auditability and compliance through improved visibility, logging, and traceability of changes across the tool estate.
- Improving tooling IDAM and privileged access management, aligned to the direction set from the Engineering Access team