Role Title: Cyber Azure Security ArchitectDuration: contract to run until 30/10/2026Location: Knutsford, Hybrid 3 days per week onsiteRate: up to 707.15 p/d Umbrella inside IR35 Role purpose / summary The Azure Security Architect is responsible for designing, implementing, and governing security controls across cloud platforms, with a focus on Zero Trust, secure build standards, and network segmentation. This role ensures that security controls are embedded into all solution components and aligned with organisational and regulatory requirements. Key Responsibilities: Develop and maintain Azure security architecture aligned to Zero Trust principles, ensuring least privilege, segmentation, and strong identity control.Define secure configuration standards for Azure resources, including network, compute, storage, identity, and monitoring components. 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, ..... full job details .....