Cyber Resilience Architect

Job Title:Cyber Resilience Architect
Location: Knutsford
Day Rate- £685 INSIDE IR35
Start Date: 23/03/2026- 30/10/2026
Job Type: Contract

Hybrid- 3 days per week in the office

Company Introduction
We have an exciting new contract opportunity with one of our tier 1 banking clients. They are looking for a Cyber Resilliance Architect on a 9-month contract!!

Overview:

The Cyber Resilience Architect designs resilient enterprise environments with a focus on assurance, recovery, and compliance. This role ensures that solutions can withstand, contain, and recover from modern cyber threats and operational disruptions.

Key Responsibilities:

Produce overarching cyber resilience architecture patterns across infrastructure, applications, identity, data, and network layers.

Design resilience controls including isolation zones, immutable backups, privileged environment separation, and containment strategies.

Lead assurance activities, evaluating technical resilience controls for completeness, maturity, and effectiveness.

Define and validate compliance to regulatory and organisational resilience standards.

Collaborate with Security, Infrastructure, and Operations teams to integrate recovery capabilities into solution designs.

Undertake resilience risk assessments and support the creation of mitigation strategies.

Provide architectural governance on change, ensuring resilience remains a core requirement across the programme.

Required Skills/Experience

Knowledge of backup/restore architectures, cyber vaults, privileged admin models, and ransomware containment strategies.

Experience with cloud-native resilience (availability zones, DR strategy, replicated storage, service failover).

Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as NIST CSF, NCSC CAF, ISO27035

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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