GCS
Security Architect - Cyber Resilience
Job Description
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements:- Proven experience as a Solution or Security Architect within cyber security or enterprise infrastructure.
- Strong hands-on experience with one or more of the following technologies: Rubrik, Cohesity, Veeam (Immutable Backup), Dell PowerProtect Cyber Recovery.
- Experience designing cyber resilience and ransomware recovery solutions.
- Strong knowledge of hybrid cloud environments, including Azure, AWS and/or GCP.
- Experience with enterprise security technologies including SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR and IAM/PAM.
- Strong understanding of disaster recovery and business continuity principles.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Desirable: experience working within highly regulated sectors.
- Desirable: exposure to OT / ICS environments.
- Desirable: certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSP, TOGAF or Azure/AWS Architecture certifications.
- Desirable: experience with automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Design end-to-end cyber resilience and backup architectures across enterprise environments.
- Develop secure backup and recovery strategies for both IT and operational technology (OT) environments.
- Architect ransomware protection, immutable backup and cyber recovery solutions.
- Define disaster recovery and business continuity strategies aligned to business requirements.
- Work closely with infrastructure, cloud and cyber security teams to deliver resilient hybrid environments.
- Conduct cyber resilience assessments, threat modelling and recovery planning.
- Support cyber recovery testing and resilience exercises.
- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance across multiple workstreams.
- Engage with senior stakeholders, engineering teams and third-party technology partners.
- AWS
- Ansible
- Architect
- Azure
- Cloud
- GCP
- IAM
- Support
- Security
- TOGAF
- Terraform
- Veeam
More:
We are supporting a leading UK organisation as they continue to invest in strengthening their cyber resilience capabilities. This is a 12-month contract based in Berkshire / Reading, with hybrid working of 1-2 days per week on-site and an immediate start available. We are offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced Cyber Security Architect to play a key role in a major transformation programme, helping to protect both IT and operational environments against evolving cyber threats.
last updated 30 week of 2026
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