Here at Oliver James we are looking for a IT Security Architect to join a leading Insurance firm where you would be apart of a large finance modernisation programme.

Contract - Rolling extension every 6 months

£700 - £800 daily (Outside IR35)

Bi-Weekly travel required to the office (once every couple weeks)

London/Birmingham office

The successful candidate will have most of the following:

• Relevant application security and/or security architecture experience.
• Experience of project reviews from an IT Security perspective.
• Strong understanding threat assessment techniques.
• Knowledge of cloud security. Microsoft Azure is preferable.
• Have a good understanding of tools and technologies used for automated application security testing, and their place in deployment pipelines.
• Be familiar with DevSecOps cultural movement and practises.
• Have knowledge of common information security management frameworks, such as International Standards Organization (ISO) 17799/27001, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology (CobiT) frameworks.
• Have knowledge of the process of performing risk, business impact, control and vulnerability assessments, and defining mitigation strategies.

Please only apply if you are a strong security architect with great cloud (Azure) exp.

Look forward to hearing from you & discussing in more detail once applied.