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Job Title: Senior Engineering Manager – Product Security

Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Filton, Frimley, Portsmouth, Brough or Weymouth. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Competitive

What you’ll be doing:

Working at all levels across our organisation and with our customer to define and manage a set of product design and build requirements in a unique industrial context

Managing a team responsible for the identification, analysis, and evaluation of security risks throughout the Submarine platform lifecycle

The presentation of risks and proposed controls to a wide range of stakeholders in order to achieve agreement and buy in is a key aspect of the role

Developing and maintaining a complex and evolving security justification case for our unique product maintaining buy in of a range of stakeholders

Continuously developing knowledge and maintaining awareness of the security advantages and vulnerabilities of common products and technologies to ensure ability to respond to upcoming risks, reduce likelihood of compromise and maintain mitigations

Your skills and experiences:

Degree (or equivalent experience) in a relevant STEM subject or Information Security related

Recognised Industry Security Qualifications eg CCP, CISSP, CISM or similar (or able to achieve

Proven experience of assessing and managing information risk in line with industry good practice (NIST, ISO 27001)

Experience managing a team and working with customers ideally within a complex engineering or industrial setting

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Product Security team:

Would you like an opportunity to manage a team in a complex industry working on a product of national significance, applying your cyber or risk security knowledge and experience within a unique engineering environment?

We are looking for a Security professional to work as a member of an engineering delivery team, applying their subject matter expertise to focus on ensuring submarine systems are developed, built and delivered to be appropriately secure and resilient. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 7th August 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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