Principal Product Security Engineer
Leonardo S.p.A.28 days ago
Lincoln, United Kingdom or Southampton, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define product security requirements and advise development teams on secure implementation standards and techniques.
- Integrate security controls into wider engineering, system, software, and firmware requirements.
- Create and manage risk assessments, security cases, and remediation action plans.
- Drive security assurance across the full product lifecycle and ensure designs are robust, compliant, and resilient.
- Manage security processes and tools to address emerging threats.
- Contribute to engineering capability improvement and Leonardo’s UK-wide security and information assurance community.
- Liaise with the Head of Product Security and Product Cyber Resilience Managers to support security assurance.
Requirements
- Experience conducting security work in a highly regulated industry such as defence, aerospace, nuclear, automotive, rail, or oil and gas.
- Practical experience implementing secure-development or security-assurance frameworks such as NIST or Common Criteria.
- Experience with security assurance frameworks affecting UK, NATO, and international defence delivery, such as MOD Secure by Design or the EU Cyber Resilience Act.
- Experience integrating security activities into engineering development lifecycles for complex non-enterprise computing systems.
- Professional recognition in security governance and risk management, secure system architecture and design, or security assurance and audit through bodies such as CIISec, ISC2, ISACA, or UKCSC.
- A willingness to learn and a positive attitude are emphasized; experience in every listed area is not required.
- Successful completion of pre-employment BPSS screening is required, with potential eligibility for SC or DV national security vetting.
Benefits
- Permanent hybrid role with flexible hours and part-time options subject to discussion.
- Generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days annually.
- Award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
- Mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led inclusion and diversity networks.
- Bonus scheme eligibility for employees at management level and below.
- Free access to more than 4,000 online courses through Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
- Employee referral programme with a financial reward.
- Up to £500 annually for flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental and family cover, technology and lifestyle discounts, and gym memberships.