[Hiring] Senior Technical Architect - Security @Spire Healthcare

Role Description

As a Senior Technical Security Architect you will be an integral member of a small IT Security team responsible for the day-to-day operation of Spire's security infrastructure, monitoring for security events, and responding accordingly. You will help design, implement, monitor and support our IT security systems, often working on complex issues. You will work on a mix of BAU and project-based work including multiple Microsoft M365 and Azure related security projects, general automation projects and ensuring new applications are deployed securely based on guardrails and security principles. This is an exciting time to be joining Spire as we embark on large scale transformation and continual IT Security maturity improvements.

• Architect security improvement solutions and technically lead their implementation.
• Working closely with the other IT architecture teams to develop secure solutions based on Spire's guiding security principles.
• Gaining and maintaining a working knowledge of the Company's Portfolio of Security Products and Services, promoting this within the business and encouraging best fit solutions.
• Continually reviewing and enhancing existing knowledge of the security aspects of common product sets and technologies.
• Providing 'soft' consultancy skills and a proactive approach to other teams within IT by providing mentoring support and guidance to help grow security skills and capabilities.
• Working with the wider information security team to design and implement critical security controls aligned to regulatory frameworks such as (ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus).
• Working as the lead to administer security policies to Spire’s Microsoft 365 environment, especially regarding SharePoint, Exchange and Intune MDM.
• Working with the IT Security Team to administer security policies to our Endpoints, especially regarding MS Defender, EDR, Purview.
• Member of the Incident Response team in partnership with an externally managed SOC.

Qualifications

• ITIL qualified
• Recognised IT or Information Security qualifications including CISSP, CISM, Cisco, SANS, ISO27001, CCSP, CISA, or SSCP are desirable.
• Relevant degree qualification desirable but not essential.

Requirements

• Extensive experience within the IT sector.
• Experience of developing and implementing Enterprise Security Strategy.
• Design and implementation of security solutions experience, seeing through to operation within multi-supplier/multi-platform environments.
• Strong experience in a similar IT Security role in a medium/large company involving a broad range of tech including some of the following: Strong knowledge & understanding of security principles surrounding SIEM, Antivirus, DLP, Firewalls, Cloud security (Azure), IDAM (PAM on-prem/cloud), EDR, Scanning/vulnerability tools.
• Windows Server & Networking knowledge.
• Ability to design secure network and manage incident response.

Benefits

• 35 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays.
• Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options.
• ‘Spire for you’ reward platform - discount and cashback for over 1000 retailers.
• Free wellness screening.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance.