Junior Security Architect

Salary: £50,652 per year

| Junior Security Architect | Blackpool

Up to £42,210

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

🚀 Would you love a gateway into the security domain?

🚀 Would you enjoy working on cutting edge projects on a large scale?

🚀 Are you looking for support in your career pathway within the security profession?

🚀 If so, then look no further and hit the apply button to find out more and start an application.

We want a motivated and driven Junior Security Architect to join our Identity & Trust (ID&T) programme. The role requires an architect with experience of developing secure solutions for deployment into public cloud (AWS preferred) environments.

The security of DWP services and the citizen’s data is at the heart of everything we design and build so it is crucially important that we have experienced and expert security architects working alongside the solution architects in our multi-disciplinary agile teams.

Delivering with People.

The Identity & Trust (ID&T) programme is tasked with implementing the DWP vision and strategic direction for remote Identification of citizens, third parties and organisations.

The incorporation of appropriate and proportionate controls and solutions is a core foundation. Building trust that a user of DWP services is genuine, and the information surrounding that user is accurate, is necessary to support a strategy of self-service, and to prevent fraud and error.

This programme of work will deliver a Dynamic Trust Hub – a combination of re-usable and shareable capabilities from various sources/suppliers, providing consistent and simplified journeys for claimants and staff, and will layer complexity away from consuming services and give them a single integration point for Identity and Trust.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need?

Microservices, API Gateways, event driven architecture, & Application security standards such as OWASP.
Public cloud technologies, cloud hosting, container, and networking design patterns, tools, and best practices (especially AWS).
Identity and Access Management, and related technical standards e.g. SAML, OAuth, OIDC etc.
Security threat trends, analysis and protection technologies, tools and best practice (e.g. software exploits/ SQL injection/ cross-site scripting/ remote file inclusion/ stolen credentials/ ‘watering hole’ attacks/ DDOS/ malware/ phishing/ ransomware).
Secure communication and encryption/ cryptographic technologies, tools, and best practice (e.g. IPsec/ Kerberos/ TLS/ SSL).
Cybersecurity technologies, tools, and best practice.Details. Wages. Perks.

You’ll join us in our brilliant digital hub located in your choice of Blackpool, Manchester or Sheffield

We also have all the tools and tech we need to enable our people to work flexibly. We work a hybrid of at home and in the office, and many of us are working remotely now due to COVID-19.

In return for your skills, we offer competitive pay up to £50,652, a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 27.9%, and a generous leave package starting at 26 days.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
Family-friendly policies
Time off volunteering and charitable giving
Bring your authentic self to work with ‘I Can Be Me in DWP’
Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
Sports and social activities
Working in an award-winning environment and culture
Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.Click for more information, and to start your application.