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# Senior Security Architect

- **Company:** DWP Digital
- **Location:** Blackpool, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £16,786.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Border Gateway Protocol, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, Internet Protocol Security (IP SEC), Intrusion Detection Systems, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Kerberos (Protocol), Network Security, Network Protocols, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), OAuth, OpenID, Public Key Infrastructure, JSON Web Token, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Security Information and Event Management, TCP/IP, EndPointSecurity, Network Routers, Transport Layer Security, Load Balancing, Istio, Firewalls (Computer Science), Gitlab, Containerization, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins
- **Published:** September 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2840621789-senior-security-architect

## About the Role

* Security architecture design and modelling techniques, tools and standards.
 * Application and Cloud Security across complex environments.
 * Experience in enterprise-scale IT, in at least one recent Security Architect role within a large, complex national or multi-national organisation.
 * Network Security; Strong understanding of network protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF) and experience securing routers, switches, firewalls and load balancers.
 * Threat analysis and mitigation using tooling such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, and endpoint detection systems.
 * Encryption & Cryptography expertise (e.g. SSL/TLS, IPsec, Kerberos, VPNs, PKI) including securing data in transit and at rest.
 * Strong knowledge of AuthN/AuthZ technologies such as OIDC, OAuth, JWT and SAML.
 * Knowledge of cloud-native technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Istio) and CI/CD tooling (e.g. Jenkins, GitLab).

A CISSP certification or Masters in Information Security would be nice to have but not essential. You can work towards these here, if you don't already have them.



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