Product Cyber Resilience Manager

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Ready to make your mark on next generation products and help define the resilience of tomorrow’s defence technology?

As a Product Cyber Resilience Manager within our Radar and Advanced Targeting (RATs) business, you’ll join a multi‑discipline team at the forefront of innovation and play a pivotal role in protecting some of the UK’s most advanced systems. You’ll shape the product security strategy from concept to delivery and champion strengthening product integrity and support exciting technical challenges, ensuring a strong security culture across the business.

As a Product Cyber Resilience Manager, you will

• Undertake the production of Security Management Plans, work package descriptions and cost estimates in support of product bids, services and proposals.
• Review and provide guidance of security risk assessments, risk mitigation plans, mitigation gap analysis and preparation of security management documentation for system accreditation, such as solution hardening guidance and security operating procedures.
• Define product security requirements, advise development teams on suitable implementation standards and techniques and oversee product development activities.
• Liaise with Security Accreditors and Security Assurance Coordinators in support of security accreditation.
• Participate in internal and external discipline working groups and with academic partners covering Product Cyber Resilience and Product Security for various established and emerging standards.
• Contribute to continual improvement of the engineering capability.

You will be responsible for the management of Product Security Risk of all the product families within your sector. You will be accountable to the respective product family System Design Authority (the Risk Owner), providing subject‑matter advice to the Integrated Product Team, whilst collaborating with your fellow Product Cyber Resilience Managers (PCRMs) across the Electronics Business Unit. The role involves conducting risk assessments, developing and implementing product security strategies and collaborating with cross‑functional teams, including Leonardo’s Cyber Security Business Unit, to embed product and cyber security best practices throughout the product development lifecycle.

You will be responsible for determining product cyber resilience objectives through security risk management techniques in relation to the Integrated Sensing products and then work with the engineering teams to achieve those objectives through the architecture and design of the solution. You’ll also support the product assurance activities to verify compliance with those objectives and the transition to operations and ongoing through‑life support.

• Experience with product security assessment methods or security risk management systems for complex products based on a recognised framework in a highly regulated industry such as aerospace, nuclear, automotive, rail or oil & gas.
• Practical experience of the System Development Life Cycle, Software Development Life Cycle, V‑Models and Agile frameworks.
• Experience in managing product information security, including risk assessment, threat modelling, vulnerability management, and incident response.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity standards and best practices, such as ISO 27001, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, and knowledge of UK/NATO Information Assurance/Accreditation frameworks; familiarity with the application of cyber‑resilience controls to embedded systems.
• Experience with cybersecurity tools and technologies, such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, DLP, and endpoint protection.
• Proficiency in cybersecurity frameworks, such as MITRE ATT&CK and the Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (CMMC).
• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CEH are a plus.

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…