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About the Role
Join our Digital Trust & Cyber Security community, focusing on applied quantum capabilities. You will help government and commercial clients navigate the transition to quantum-safe cryptography, understand quantum risk, and develop migration strategies. This role offers the opportunity to shape an emerging market, working with leading experts and assisting large organizations in preparing for evolving cryptographic trust.
Responsibilities
- Security architecture and secure-by-design activities.
- Cryptography and PKI advisory work.
- PQC readiness assessments and migration planning.
- Cryptographic discovery and inventory activities.
- Cloud, enterprise and technology transformation programmes.
- Client workshops and stakeholder engagement.
- Development of PQC propositions, methods and thought leadership.
- Support for bids and business development activity.
Requirements
- Security architecture experience.
- Applied cryptography, PKI, key management or related cybersecurity experience.
- Understanding of public key cryptography, certificates and trust services.
- Experience producing assessments, roadmaps and technical recommendations.
- Strong consulting, communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to communicate complex technical topics to senior business and technology stakeholders.
- Experience with cloud security architecture.
- Enterprise identity and access management.
- DevSecOps and code signing.
- Network security.
- Operational technology or critical infrastructure environments.
- Security transformation programmes.
- Experience with PQC standards, migration planning or cryptographic agility initiatives.
- Candidates with strong cryptography or security architecture backgrounds who are excited to develop specialist expertise in PQC are also considered.
- Must meet residency requirements for UK security clearance (British citizen or resident in the UK for the past 5 years).
Skills
- Cybersecurity
- Quantum technologies
- Quantum-safe cryptography
- Cryptography
- PKI
- Key management
- Public key cryptography
- Certificates
- Trust services
- Cloud security architecture
- Enterprise identity and access management
- DevSecOps
- Code signing
- Network security
- Operational technology
- Critical infrastructure
- Security transformation
- PQC standards
- Migration planning
- Cryptographic agility
Location
- UK
- Ireland
- US
- Netherlands
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid working (minimum 2 days per week in office or on client site)
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- CISSP
- SABSA
- CCSP
- Cloud security certifications
- Security architecture certifications
- Cryptography-related certifications
Benefits
- Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
- 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
- Generous company pension scheme
- Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
- Annual performance-based bonus
- PA share ownership
- Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
About the Company
- We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
- Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster.
- Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
- We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists.
- We have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
- Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
- PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.
Equal Opportunity
- We are committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience.
- We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
- Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected]