Security Architect

Job Description

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.
 

Role summary

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic individual with excellent technical and client-facing skills, to act as a security architect and technical delivery lead for delivering cyber security solutions. This ranges from designing and delivering security improvements pans, designing, building and maturing CERTs/SOCs and Managed Security Services' SOCs.

This role is situated within our Government business, based in Canberra, with substantial time on client sites and will require a government security clearance at NV2 minimum, with potential expectation to undergo PV.

Find out more about our award winning Cyber Security solutions: http://www.baesystems.com/en/cybersecurity/solutions/by-business-objective/detect-and-monitor-for-cyber-attacks.

 What you’ll be doing

• Responsible for implementing solutions across people, process and technology with top-tier Government clients.
• Engage with the customers to understand their requirements and design cyber security solutions to meet their needs throughout the design – delivery lifecycle. On client-site you will direct a team (and contribute hands-on) to install, configure and integrate the solution with the client's systems (building client-specific extensions as required), before testing to assure the quality of the deliverable and finally handing-over the solution to the customer.
• Help grow and evolve our delivery capability by documenting the delivery processes, feeding back lessons learned and working with the wider team in establishing best practices and repeatable processes. You will feed back requirements that you have captured during the project continually to product management teams to help to steer the business' product roadmap.
• Work with sales executives, technical project managers, engineers, solution architects, as well as the end-customer. Given the international client delivery focus of this role, flexibility in our designs and delivery methodologies is essential to ensure timely delivery to the customer’s satisfaction. You may be required to travel internationally and nationally to work on-site across our client-base.
• Develop an in-depth technical understanding of our Cyber Security product suite, and will build excellent relationships with our customers, such that they see you as the SME and their primary point-of-contact for technical matters.
• Responsible for architecting solutions, providing in depth specialist consultancy to meet the needs of BAE clients. You will ensure that solutions developed within delivery programmes are fit-for-purpose.
• Select and tailor the engineering processes that are used to develop the solution and govern the technical quality of the work as it is executed. As expert communicators with deep knowledge in more than one discipline, you will be involved in coordinating the activities of engineering and consultancy specialists to develop a design, deliver it and often operate the solution pending transition and transfer to our clients.
• Deliver solutions with consideration of through-life solution operation such as operational support and management, integration, change and extension, migration and re-platforming, productisation, re-use, withdrawal/retirement and disposal.
• Lead the development of solution architectures, ensuring consistency with specified requirements agreed with both external and internal customers.
• Define and manage the solution engineering approach.
• Oversee and assure the implementation of the design in collaboration with other design team members such as Application Architects, Infrastructure Architects, System and Software Designers, Data Architects, Security Architects and Functional Architects.
• Ensure that the design meets key functional and non-functional requirements and will allow the operational and through-life scenarios required for the solution to be satisfied.
• Own and manage technical and solution risks. Work to reduce and mitigate at earliest practical opportunity.
• Lead estimation efforts to rapidly develop an understanding of potential solution costs and delivery timescales including appropriate service regimes for solutions in production operation.
• Retain overall ownership of solution through delivery and transition into operation and/or subsequent refinement, or modification.
• Ensure that appropriate standards (corporate, industry, national and international) are adhered to.
• Work with quality and test management functions to ensure that proposed test strategies and approaches are fit-for-purpose.
• Work with Delivery Assurance functions to agree how the quality and progress of a given solution delivery should be tracked, acting as an expert resource to support interventions on projects where solution quality or progress has become an issue.

What we’re looking for

Essential: 

• Experience in building and delivering Cyber Security solutions, integrating systems and developing the associated processes and procedures, and an understanding of the cyber security threat landscape.
• Detailed knowledge of Cyber Security product landscape, with core knowledge on Azure and AWS security.
• Previous experience working in a Security Operating Centre including a background in SOC design and/or operation.
• Experienced in deriving and updating security use cases for use on SIEM and analytics platforms and onboarding organisations to a SOC. Knowledge of Splunk and Sentinel would be advantageous.
• Experienced engineer that is capable of maintaining high levels of configuration control, quality assurance and producing and following standard design patterns.
• Experience with working with end users and clients offering advice, guidance and thought leadership.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and client-facing skills, including Microsoft Office suite use (Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Visio), ensuring a clear and professional quality of written materials.
• Time management and organizational skills to independently manage multiple delivery projects concurrently.
• Detail-oriented approach.
• ITIL, and authoring/directing the development and implementation of Service Management systems including case management solution such as ServiceNow.
• Thought leadership at senior levels in designing and setting strategy for advanced cyber defence detection systems.
• Cloud architecture experience.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence 

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

Division overview: Government

At BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, we pride ourselves in being a leader in the cyber defence industry, and Government contracts are an area we have many decades of experience in. Government and key infrastructure networks are critical targets to defend as the effects of these networks being breached can be devastating.

As a member of the Government business unit, you will defend the connected world and ensure the protection of nations. We all have a role to play in defending our clients, and this is yours.