This role is delivered within secure environments. Candidates must be eligible for UK SC clearance and hold UK citizenship.

Join the Mission

At ByDesign Secure, we believe that world‑class security shouldn't be an afterthought— it should be the foundation. We are an independent, outputs‑based consultancy dedicated to solving the most complex data assurance challenges in the UK public sector. Currently, we are working on a landmark transformation of a cross‑government secure IT system. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the design and consumption of a private cloud environment from the ground up and help modernise the end‑user services that support national decision‑making. We don’t believe in “billing by the hour” or rigid hierarchies; we are a lean, expert team focused on delivering high‑impact outcomes. If you are a self‑starter who thrives on autonomy and wants to see your analysis, insights, and business decisions shape the future of sovereign security, we want to talk to you

About the Opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced and collaborative Platform Business Analyst to join a Platform Team operating within a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment, supporting a major migration programme from on-premises infrastructure to Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) within a secure and highly regulated environment.

You’ll work at the intersection of business, operations, security, and engineering, helping define and translate platform, infrastructure, networking, identity, security, and operational requirements into clear, actionable delivery artefacts.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working closely with Cloud Architects, Cloud Engineers, Cloud Security Engineers, Cloud DevOps Engineers, and Cloud Data Engineers to deliver modern cloud platform capabilities – automation is at the heart of everything we do.

What You’ll Be Doing (Generally)

• Working as an embedded Business Analyst within a Scrum Team operating as part of a SAFe Agile Release Train (ART).
• Collaborating closely with Product Owners, architects, and engineering teams to refine platform and operational requirements.
• Supporting the migration of enterprise services and operational capabilities from on-premises environments into GDC.
• Eliciting, analysing, and documenting business, operational, security, infrastructure, networking, and cloud platform requirements.
• Translating complex technical requirements into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, process maps, and backlog items.
• Supporting backlog refinement activities to ensure stories are implementation-ready.
• Contributing to PI Planning by helping define business context, dependencies, operational impacts, and platform outcomes.
• Supporting engineers and testers during delivery by clarifying requirements, operational processes, and expected outcomes.
• Producing and maintaining delivery artefacts including process maps, user journeys, operating models, system context diagrams, data flow diagrams, and service transition documentation.
• Helping define and document operational readiness requirements including monitoring, alerting, support models, disaster recovery, onboarding, and service management processes.
• Defining the onboarding process for application teams migrating services into GDC.
• Working closely with Cloud Architects, Cloud Engineers, Cloud Security Engineers, Cloud DevOps Engineers, and Cloud Data Engineers to ensure business and operational requirements are correctly represented in the platform design.

What You’ll Be Doing (Initial Deliverables)

• Documenting how platform administrators securely access the environment from on-premises networks.
• Capturing operational requirements for logging, SIEM integration, monitoring, and alerting.
• Producing process flows for incident management, certificate renewal, or disaster recovery procedures.
• Supporting workshops between networking, security, and platform engineering teams to define ingress and connectivity requirements.
• Writing user stories describing how engineers provision infrastructure using Terraform and GitLab pipelines.
• Mapping dependencies between identity systems such as Active Directory, Keycloak, GIS, and Kubernetes RBAC.
• Supporting operational readiness reviews prior to onboarding new workloads into the platform.
• Documenting support responsibilities and shared responsibility models between infrastructure, security, and application teams.

What You’ll Bring

• Proven experience working as a Business Analyst within cloud, infrastructure, platform, or enterprise IT transformation programmes.
• Experience working within Agile Scrum and/or SAFe delivery environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud and platform concepts including networking, identity, infrastructure, security, DevOps, and operational processes.
• Ability to work confidently with highly technical engineering and architecture teams while remaining focused on business outcomes and operational value.
• Experience writing clear user stories, acceptance criteria, workflows, process maps, and operational documentation.
• Strong stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, and communication skills.
• Confidence engaging with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience using Jira and Confluence.
• A pragmatic, collaborative mindset with a focus on operational readiness and service delivery.

Bonus Points For

• SAFe certification (e.g. SAFe Agilist, SAFe Practitioner, SAFe POPM).
• Experience working on large, complex, or regulated IT programmes.
• Background in digital transformation or enterprise systems delivery.
• Experience modelling business processes using recognised techniques.
• Existing UK Government Security Clearance (SC or above)
• Experience supporting cloud migration or hybrid cloud transformation programmes.
• Familiarity with GCP, Kubernetes, Google Distributed Cloud (GDC), or enterprise platform environments.
• Experience working within government, defence, or highly regulated sectors.
• Understanding of operational readiness, service management or platform operations concepts.
• Experience producing architecture-adjacent artefacts such as process models, service models, or operational workflows.

Why This Role?

• Work on high-impact, nationally significant projects that make a real difference.
• Join a trusted specialist integrator with a proven record of secure delivery into UK Government.
• Be part of a multi-year programme offering long-term stability and genuine career growth.

Clearance Requirements:

• This role requires either an existing Security Clearance (SC level) or for one to be passed before commencement. There must be a willingness to undergo Developed Vetting (DV).

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London

Job Types: Temporary, Fixed term contract (outside of IR35)

Job Types: Fixed term contract, Temporary
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: £575.00 per day

Application question(s):

• Do you currently hold active UK SC clearance?
• Do you hold UK nationality? (Required due to client security restrictions)
• Are you eligible and willing to undergo UK SC/DV clearance for this role? (Applications without this cannot be considered)
• Does your delivery approach allow for on-site presence in London when required (typically around 3 days per week)?

Work Location: Hybrid remote in London