Principal Product Security Engineer

Our Combat Air (CA) Electronic Warfare (EW) Design Integrity department are seeking Principal Product Security Engineers to join their team working to develop defence products of the future across all domains. As a Principal Product Security Engineer, you'll work alongside multidisciplinary product teams as part of the Combat Air and Electronic Warfare business area overseeing the integration of security throughout the product lifecycle.

• →Defining product security requirements, advising development teams on suitable implementation standards and techniques and supporting product development activities. 

• →Develop and manage security protocols, tools, and processes that keep our technologies ahead of emerging threats. 

• →Creation and management of key artefacts such as, Risk Assessments, Security Cases, and Remediation Action Plans. 

• →Drive Security Assurance through the full product lifecycle, ensuring every design is robust, compliant, and resilient. Contributing to continual improvement of the engineering capability. 

• →Contribute to Leonardo’s UK-wide Security and IA community — shaping best practice and influencing security strategy. 

• →Liaison with Security experts, including the head of product security and Product Cyber Resilience Managers to support ongoing Security Assurance. 

• Practical experience of ISO27001/27004/27005 and/or NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF). 

• Experience of supporting a security risk management system for highly regulated products based on recognised frameworks such as defence, aerospace, nuclear, automotive, rail or oil and gas. 

• Understanding and appreciation of the Engineering development lifecycles and how the Product Security specialism aligns. 

• Ability to interpret Penetration Test Reports and support remediation activities. 

• Awareness of UK Government Assurance Processes (such as the MoD Secure by Design Framework (through JSP 453 / ISN2023/09 and through legacy JSP 604 Assurance or the CAF GovAssure processes). 

• 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