Principal Product Security Engineer

Are you enthusiastic about delivering Product and Information Security in a highly technical environment at the forefront of innovation?

Our Surveillance and Protection Technologies Design Integrity department are seeking experienced and enthusiastic Principal Product Security Engineer to join their expanding team working to develop next-generation Electronic Warfare capabilities for a variety of platforms across all domains. As a Product Security Engineer, you will be responsible, for the delivery of key product security outputs, whilst being closely integrated into system, software and firmware teams to ensure products are developed with security in mind and are secure by design.

• →Experience of conducting security work in a highly regulated industry such as defence, aerospace, nuclear, automotive, rail or oil and gas.
• →Practical experience of implementing industry best practice frameworks for secure development of capabilities (i.e. NIST) and / or security assurance (i.e. Common Criteria).
• →Experience in the implementation of, or appreciation of applicable security assurance frameworks that may impact delivery to UK, NATO and wider international Defence partners (i.e. MOD Secure by Design, EU Cyber Resiliency Act etc).
• →Experience in integrating security activities within wider Engineering development lifecycles to develop tightly integrated security solutions within complex, non-enterprise computing systems.
• →Professional recognition in security governance and risk management, secure system architecture and design or security assurance and audit endorsed by a professional information security body such as CIISec, ISC2, ISACA or the UKCSC.

This is not an exhaustive list, and we are keen to hear from you even if you might not have experience in all the above. The most important skill is a good attitude and willingness to learn.

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting