Senior Product Security Engineer

Luton
5 days ago
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The Company -

We are proud to be partnered with one of the world's leading organisations within Electronic Warfare, with over 100-years history providing the latest technological advances to military customers in the UK and further afield.

This is a great opportunity to work on critical programmes in EW and Future Combat Air Systems, where you will take the lead on safety-critical Product Security.

Key Skills:

Experience of Product Security
Working in a complex safety-critical engineering environment
Understanding of the Systems Development Lifecycle / V-Models
Ideally Electronics experience but can consider other complex product development backgrounds
Understanding of cyber security and cyber resilienceCompany Benefits:

Flexible salary depending on level to be discussed on application
Annual bonus scheme
Industry leading pension scheme - up to 15% employer contribution (based on 8% employee contribution). Please see table below.
Life assurance - 4x annual salary if you have opted into the pension scheme
Flexi leave - 12 flexi days a year for additional hours worked
Annual leave - 25 days plus public holidays
Hybrid working schedule with 1-day a week on-site with occasional UK travel
Flexible benefits - £500 per year for employees to select their own benefits (ie. private medical insurance, dental insurance etc)

Job Description:

Experience of owning a security risk management system
Regulated industry experience in aerospace, nuclear, automotive, rail or oil & gas;
Practical experience of the System Development Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle, Spiral, V-Models and Agile frameworks;
The ability to understand complex engineering processes and the inter-dependency of the process components;
A passion for promoting and improving the safety and security of complex systems.
Broad breadth of engineering experience in order to be able to review project demands and advise on resourcing needs, development, delivery plans and structures.
Familiarity with the application of cyber resilience controls to embedded systemsIt would be desirable, but not essential, if you also had one or more of:

Practical experience of ISO27001/27004/27005 or NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF);
Knowledge of UK/NATO Information Assurance/Accreditation frameworks;
Knowledge of EASA/FAA Airworthiness Certification frameworks;
Awareness of current crypto technologies, Key Management Systems & practical COMSEC;
Awarded or looking to achieve an NCSC Certified Cyber Professional (CCP) recognition;
Awareness of Information Security (INFOSEC), Communications Security (COMSEC), Transmission Security (TRANSEC), Product Safety and their inter-relationship
Familiarity with incident investigation and implementation of an investigation process such as used by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB)

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