Solution Architect - Defence and Government

Arqit
London
2 weeks ago
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Description

Arqit is a global cybersecurity company delivering world-leading encryption solutions to secure data and communications for enterprises, governments, defence, and critical national infrastructure (CNI). Powered by advanced symmetric key cryptography, the Arqit SKA-Platform™ offers scalable dynamic encryption that meets modern industry standards and is resilient to future threats, such as those posed by quantum computers. The platform allows devices to seamlessly generate and share secure symmetric encryption keys, reducing the vulnerabilities associated with public key infrastructure (PKI) while operating with zero-trust principles. 
 
Stronger, simpler encryption.
 
We have an exciting new opportunity for aSolution Architect / Defence & Government Specialistto join our talented team.  Our offices are conveniently located close to Westminster, St James Park and Victoria stations and we support considerable flexibility around working from home or remotely.  We have a great team culture that gives you the opportunity to innovate, take ownership, and scale new heights in your career as the company grows.


What you'll be doing

As a Solution Architect with a Defence and Government focus, you will take advantage of your deep experience in networking and secure communications to help deliver on the Arqit vision. This is a customer-focused role that will require you to deliver technical presentations and demonstrations, understand customer needs, develop and deliver solutions for live projects, and support pre-sales with active bids and engagements.
 
This is a great opportunity to join a fast-paced team on their exciting journey into an emerging technology space, working with a wide range of customers such as government agencies, defence primes, major OEM vendors and partner SMEs within the Government and Defence verticals both here in the UK and internationally.
 
As part of our tightly-knit, collaborative team, you will report to the Director of Professional Services and will work directly with our customers to understand their products and architecture, identify integration points with the Arqit stack, and help our customers integrate our capabilities into their products. You will help them design and implement innovative solutions that help them fully benefit from our products. You will also deliver and develop training, work with our R&D and product teams to help develop our services and be a customer advocate within Arqit.  


What we're looking for

·       You are likely to have experience in secure networks in the context of military or defence.
·       Strong customer relations and presentation skills.
·       Excellent time and project management skills.
·       Superb analytical and problem-solving skills.
·       Demonstrable experience in setting up secure networks and designing network architecture. 
·       Multi-year experience of rolling out technical projects across multiple platforms
·       Professional Service Engineering or similar (such as consultancy) experience
 
Essential technical experience:
 
·       Strong background in networking and communications, with experience working with routers, firewalls and VPN servers.
·       Knowledge of network protocols such as IPsec, TLS and WireGuard.
·       Expertise in cybersecurity principles, practices, and technologies.
·       Significant experience working with Linux-based operating systems and being comfortable with common command line tools.
·       Ability to create technical documentation for solutions, such as architecture diagrams, design specifications, and operational procedures.
 
Useful to have:
 
·       Experience with edge computing and deploying small form factor and IoT devices.
·       Experience setting up secure networks for mobile endpoints (e.g., Android and Windows devices). 
·       Proficiency in cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Oracle or Google Cloud.
·       Experience working with programming languages such as Python, Java or C++. 
·       Sector specific experience with understanding of current and future solution requirements.
 
Please note: the ability to work in the UK without restriction, and to obtain UK security clearance are both ESSENTIAL
 
 
Arqit supplies a unique quantum safe encryption Platform-as-a-Service which makes the communications links or data at rest of any networked device or cloud machine secure against current and future forms of attack – even from a quantum computer. 

Arqit’s product QuantumCloud™, enables any device to download a lightweight software agent, which can create encryption keys in partnership with any number of other devices. The keys are computationally secure, optionally one-time use and zero trust. QuantumCloud™ can create limitless volumes of keys in limitless group sizes and can regulate the secure entrance and exit of a device in a group.

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