Lead Design Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Remote, Sheffield, United Kingdom

Salary: £300–£500 per day

Company

hirify.global provides consulting services focused on technology, architecture, and cybersecurity transformation.

What you will do

• Produce, manage, and update end-to-end solution designs aligned with business requirements, reference architecture, standards, and design principles.
• Translate requirements into efficient, timely, and cost-effective architectures throughout the project lifecycle.
• Publish architecture patterns, design decision records, options, deviations, technical risks, and issue records.
• Present designs and publications to technical design authorities, senior leadership, and stakeholders for review and approval.
• Provide cybersecurity thought leadership, manage technical architects, engineers, and analysts, and support programme management when required.
• Manage technical and project risks, dependencies, remediation steps, and the relationship between design decisions and resulting impacts.

Requirements

• Significant technical depth in a cybersecurity domain such as security operations and incident response, threat and vulnerability management, identity and access management, cryptography, infrastructure, network, application, data, or cloud security.
• Broad information technology background and ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity operations, risk management, architectural requirements, engineering threats and vulnerabilities, and incident response methodologies.
• Understanding of national and international cybersecurity laws, regulations, policies, and ethics related to the financial industry.
• Experience with enterprise and solution architecture, including both operational and transformation cybersecurity perspectives.
• Experience working in large-scale IT transformation programmes.
• 3+ years of experience in a HashiCorp Vault environment, preferably on-premises, and 3+ years using HashiCorp Terraform to design and build complex modules.
• Real-world experience integrating Vault, including Secret Engines and authentication methods, and creating robust, reusable patterns.
• Experience investigating Vault integration root causes, monitoring usage trends, improving service efficiency, and defining secrets management strategy.
• Experience designing or implementing workload identity frameworks in large enterprises, plus knowledge of federated identity, single sign-on, PAM, Kerberos, OAuth, and SAML.
• Degree or equivalent work experience in cybersecurity, computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
• High proficiency in Jira and working proficiency in Confluence for project management, task management, and documentation.

Nice to have

• CISSP, CISM, or another broadly recognised cybersecurity certification.
• SABSA or TOGAF certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote contract role based in Sheffield, United Kingdom.
• Work includes collaboration with design authorities, senior leadership, technical architects, engineers, analysts, and cybersecurity stakeholders.
• Contract compensation is £300–£500 per day.