Application Security Architect

📍 Bracknell (with regular travel to London & the South West)
💰 £75,000 + Bonus + Car Allowance
🔒 Must be eligible for high-level Security Clearance

Are you an experienced Security Architect or Technical Design Specialist looking to work on complex, secure environments that make a real impact? We’re recruiting for a Application Security Architect to join a highly skilled team delivering critical cyber and secure infrastructure projects.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on major programmes, shaping secure gateway solutions, influencing technical designs, and collaborating with Solution Architects, Engineering Leads, SOC teams, and operational support functions to ensure secure and reliable service delivery.

The Role

As a Application Security Architect, you’ll play a key role in the design, implementation and ongoing support of secure gateway technologies within a highly regulated environment.

Working closely with the Lead Solution Architect and Engineering teams, you’ll provide technical leadership, support architectural change, troubleshoot complex issues, and help ensure the continued availability and performance of critical security platforms.

This is a hands-on position suited to someone with a strong design and development background and experience supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure and gateway technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement technical changes to support secure gateway environments
• Produce solution and change designs in line with customer requirements
• Work closely with Solution Architects, Engineering Leads and Project Managers to deliver technical outcomes
• Support Security Operations Centre (SOC) and 3rd Line teams with troubleshooting and issue resolution
• Maintain platform availability, resilience and performance
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical roadmaps
• Collaborate with stakeholders across engineering, security and operational teams
• Support design reviews, documentation and governance activities

About You

You’ll be a proactive and self-motivated technical specialist who enjoys solving complex challenges and working collaboratively within high-performing teams.

You’ll also have:

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• The ability to work independently and take ownership of technical deliverables
• A flexible approach with willingness to travel regularly across London and the South West
• A strong design and development background, ideally within secure or regulated environments

Essential Technical Experience

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Windows Server
• VMware vSphere
• SMTP / Email Infrastructure

Preferred Experience

Knowledge or experience in some of the following areas would be highly beneficial:

• Cross Domain Solutions
• Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
• VMware technologies
• Shell Scripting
• Regular Expressions (Regex)
• Active Directory
• DNS
• Standards such as RFC, XEP and ISO
• File Transfer Technologies
• LDIF
• XML and JSON schemas
• PKI and Certificate Management

Desirable Skills

• Firewall Technologies
• Syslog
• XMPP Chat Platforms
• Secure Email Solutions
• Enterprise Messaging Technologies
• LDIF Administration