Platform Security Architect

Company Description

Dev/Null Security is a leading cybersecurity consultancy specializing in security solution architecture, engineering, implementation, and operational support. With decades of experience, our expert teams protect high-value systems from advanced threats. We provide exceptional consulting services and deliver value at every step, focusing on Strategy and Advisory, Consulting and Managed Services, and Privileged Access Management. Dev/Null Security is dedicated to safeguarding critical assets and helping clients navigate complex cybersecurity challenges.

We are seeking a Platform Security Engineer to manage end-to-end solution design and be responsible for delivering design documents in line with functional and non-functional business requirements, strategies, principles, standards, and patterns.

Alongside the creation of high-level designs, the Platform Security Architect will be required to publish new architecture patterns, key decisions, design deviations, and technical risks and issues where appropriate.

Cybersecurity Expertise & Experience:

• Significant experience in platform engineering, observability, and provisioning within cybersecurity.
• Proven experience in building, migrating, and uplifting data platforms in a large enterprise environment.
• Proven ability to develop and implement a strategic vision for platform services, observability, and provisioning.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, containerisation, and microservices architecture.
• Broad background across information technology with the ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs at a comfortable level.
• Strong proficiency in technical scoping, architecture design, and integration of security tools and processes.
• Strong understanding of cyber security principles, governance, and compliance frameworks.

Qualifications & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in cybersecurity, computer science, software engineering, or related field preferred.
• CISSP/CISM certification or other broad cybersecurity industry-recognised certificate preferred.
• SABSA or TOGAF certified preferred.

Accountabilities and Responsibilities

Security Data Platform Architecture & Engineering:

• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of security data platform services that meet the cybersecurity needs of the business.
• Ensure security data platform services are reliable, efficient, and capable of supporting global operations.
• Implement comprehensive observability strategies to provide real-time insights into system performance and health.
• Drive the automation of provisioning processes to enhance speed, accuracy, and efficiency.

Architecture & Design:

• Own, author and drive solutions that allow engineering teams to deliver and execute strategic technology deployments at speed and scale.
• Provide assurance that technology implementations meet published designs.
• Support engineering teams documentation and ensure alignment to architectural principles, standards, and patterns.

Governance:

• Willingness and ability to present reference architecture to design authorities and articulate deep technical concepts to a broad range of stakeholders in both large forums and smaller deep-dive sessions.
• Ensures all reference architecture, high-level designs, architecture patterns, decision records, deviation requests, and technical risks or issue records undergo architectural and project governance processes.
• Ensure all architecture artefacts undergo appropriate peer review prior to design authority presentation.
• Present publications at technical design authorities for input, feedback, and approval.

Risk and Dependency Management:

• Effectively manages and escalates both technical and project risks or issues.
• Articulates solutions and remediation steps to technical risks & issues.
• Ability to map design decisions to resultant technical risks & issues to articulate the cause and rationale which leads to any negatively impacting change.

Leadership & Teamwork

• Support cybersecurity executives through thought leadership and innovation.
• Lead others and create an environment that supports and inspires people to develop and deliver.

Working at DevNull Security

Whilst DevNull Security is a remote-first company, our consulting team may be required to travel to client sites up to 3 times per week, depending on project and customer needs.

We believe that a career in cybersecurity should be accessible to everyone. We actively welcome applicants from all walks of life, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability, neurodiversity, socioeconomic background, or any other aspect of identity.

As a growing company, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and accessible hiring experience. We proactively offer adjustments during application and assessment - tell us what you need.