4 days ago
Stevenage, United Kingdom +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Identify security risks in complex weapon systems, products, and solutions and ensure appropriate security measures are implemented.
- Integrate information assurance activities with weapon-system engineering, design, manufacturing, and support programmes.
- Provide security direction, guidance, and support to stakeholders, engineering teams, subcontractors, customers, accreditors, and technical authorities.
- Conduct or contribute to weapon-system information-security trade studies.
- Produce security documentation and evidence for MOD security assurance requirements.
- Specify security requirements, develop security patterns and solutions, review designs and implementations, define verification requirements, review verification outputs, and develop operational guidance.
- Contribute to corporate information-assurance capability and maintain awareness of emerging technologies and their security implications.
Requirements
- Experience generating information-security risk assessments, risk treatment plans, and risk management and assurance documents.
- Knowledge of MOD and UK government information-security policy, defence standards, and related guidance, with the ability to tailor them to weapon-system products.
- Knowledge or appreciation of systems engineering, electronics principles, software technology, and software development principles.
- Experience or exposure to cyber security across the systems engineering and development lifecycle.
- Experience specifying and developing effective, balanced information-assurance solutions or approaches.
- Understanding of systems and security verification, validation, testing, evaluation, and assurance approaches, including HMG Secure-by-Design, the NIST 800 Risk Management Framework, the NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework, and CAPS.
- Experience working in a product or systems development environment.
- Ability to engage stakeholders at different levels and distinguish key technical, commercial, and programme influences from complex information.
- Knowledge or exposure to cost, schedule, and technical-performance trade-offs.
- British citizenship is required, and security restrictions may apply; successful candidates must undergo BPSS checks and typically need five years of continuous UK residency.
Benefits
- Hybrid working with three days per week on-site due to workload classification.
- Company bonus opportunity.
- Pension contributions with an employer and employee contribution structure.
- Flexible working arrangements.
- Enhanced maternity, adoption, shared parental, paternity, neonatal, and fertility-related leave and support.
- Subsidised meals, free car parking, and other site facilities.
- Healthcare Cash Plan covering eligible everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, and wellbeing costs.
- Employee-led inclusion networks and recruitment-process support or adjustments.
- Varied defence projects, military-customer exposure, and opportunities for internally funded research packages.
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About MBDA
MBDA designs and manufactures missiles and integrated missile systems for land, sea, and air forces, selling to governments and prime contractors. Formed in 2001 and headquartered in Le Plessis-Robinson, France, it is jointly owned by Airbus, BAE Systems, and Leonardo. Its portfolio includes well-known systems such as Aster, Meteor, Exocet, and Storm Shadow/SCALP used by European and allied militaries.