Security Solutions Architect

Location: UK - London, UK - Hatfield, UK - Liverpool, UK - Manchester, UK - Milton Keynes, UK - Nottingham, UK - Reading, UK - Sheffield | Job-ID: 218065 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: IT Consulting

Life on the team
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to join our dynamic and rapidly expanding Consultancy Practice within Computacenter. The ideal candidate will have experience of working at the architect level within a consultancy environment with a focus on traditional, advanced and emerging security solutions. 
We are experiencing high growth across all our networking and security services and the position will suit a candidate that enjoys a fast moving and varied role, working into enterprise customers that require the definition and delivery of advanced security solutions.

What you'll do

We are looking for a highly skilled Security Solutions Architect to join our architecture team and lead design, positioning, and delivery of integrated security and identity solutions across enterprise environments.

This role is central to our Professional Services capability, supporting customers within the Networking and Security practice advising our customers on modernising their security posture through Zero Trust, identity-first architectures, and cloud-native security models.

This role combines deep technical expertise, strategic advisory and pre-sales experience to support our go to market and sales function whilst helping to develop internal service collateral to deliver continued growth in this space. The architect will shape and position solutions with input from a team of highly experienced SME consultants with the aim to provide first class advice and outcomes to our Enterprise customers.

Expected experience and activities for this position includes:

• Engagement activities:

- Advisory services

- Architecture guidance

- Roadmap definitions

- Requirements gathering

- Solution and design definition

- Professional Services proposals

- Solution governance

• Attend Customer opportunity / strategy meetings to understand and articulate business and technical strategy for the company and customer.
• Provide qualification of designs or opportunities and produce high-level architecture/design documentation
• Work closely with Vendors / Partners to keep up to date with current and future technologies, products and strategies to manage the ‘cradle to grave’ solution cycle.
• Act as a Design Authority for nominated key accounts
• Act as Technical Authority and lead for complex, enterprise-scale, mission-critical customer projects
• Work closely with peers and SMEs to create solutions for Computacenter customers
• Support colleagues in Solutions Sales to identify and create new propositions and services to take to market
• Research technology and deliver associated white papers to promote Computacenter’s offerings.
• Maintain high level of industry awareness through training and self-development
• Perform governance and due diligence around proposed solutions, ensuring they meet the documented customer requirements

What you'll need

Technical Experience

• Cross-Domain Integration

- Network (identity-aware access and segmentation)
- Workplace (device identity and conditional access)
- Cloud (IAM and workload identity)
- Applications (SSO, API security)
- Datacentre (privileged infrastructure access)

• In-depth understanding of

- Identity and Security Architecture
- Secure Services Edge (SSE)
- Cloud and Infrastructure Identity
- Certificate and PKI

• Strong experience across a number of vendor technologies:

- CyberArk (PAM)
- Zscaler, Palo Alto, Cisco (SSE / Zero Trust)
- Sailpoint, Okta (Identity)
- Microsoft Security (Entra ID, Defender, Sentinel)

• Proven expertise in security technologies such as firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, encryption, identity and access management (IAM), endpoint security, etc.
• Strong understanding of security frameworks and standards (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, CIS Controls).
• Experience with cloud security architectures and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).

Candidates are expected to support a number of the following certifications:

• CyberArk Certified Delivery Engineer (CDE)
• CyberArk Sentry / Guardian
• CyberArk EPM / Secrets Manager
• Zscaler Certified Architect (ZTCA)
• Zscaler Certified Implementation Specialist (ZCIS
• ISC2 CISSP (Certified Information Systems Security Professional
• Microsoft Azure Security Engineer / Identity

About us

We are a leading independent technology and services provider, trusted by large corporate and public sector organisations. We are a responsible business that believes in winning together for our people and our planet. We help our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure to deliver digital transformation, enabling people and their business.

Our business may be about technology, but first of all it’s about people

With over 21,000 people across 22 countries, we are proud of our inclusive culture - where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and truly belong.

As an equal opportunities employer, we’re committed to ensuring fair and equal access to opportunities for all. Your application will be considered on its merits, regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, or any other characteristics protected by law. What matters most to us is that you share our vision and values, and bring the experience and skills we’re looking for.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We welcome applications from disabled people and accept applications in alternative formats. We also guarantee to interview applicants who have a disability.

If you share our values and want to make a meaningful impact in a supportive, forward-thinking environment - we’d love to hear from you!