Principal Product Security Engineer

Responsibilities for this Position

Location: Castleham Rd, Hastings, Saint Leonards-on-sea TN38 9NJ
, UK

Employment Type: Permanent

General Dynamics Mission Systems engineers a diverse portfolio of high technology solutions, products and services that enable customers to successfully execute missions across all domains of operation. With a global team of more than 13,000 top professionals, we partner with the best in industry to expand the bounds of innovation in the defence and scientific arenas. In the UK, we are leading the way in avionics and communication systems.

Given the nature of our work and who we are, we value trust, honesty, alignment and transparency.

General Dynamics in St Leonards-on-Sea currently provide avionic mission computing systems for a wide range of military fast jets, helicopters, and UAVs. Recent success has resulted in General Dynamics developing the next generation of Advanced High Performance, Safety Critical Mission Computer Systems to meet the needs of latest platforms in development by several aircraft manufacturers. These Mission Computing Systems provide the functionality that integrates aircraft systems, sensor systems and stores management systems with the information and control systems required by the aircrew to meet the demanding operational needs of these aircraft.

Join our security engineering team and help deliver future combat-air capability as part of the GCAP programme. You will work on complex, safety-critical mission-computing systems, embedding security into the product architecture and engineering lifecycle.

Working alongside specialists across systems, software, hardware, safety and certification, you will help ensure that security risks are identified, understood and addressed through robust engineering solutions. This is an opportunity to influence the design of advanced airborne technology while contributing to a strategically important UK defence programme.

This is a product and systems security engineering role
, focused on embedding security into complex, safety-critical airborne mission systems.

In this role you will:

• Own and lead the product-security architecture for complex airborne mission systems
• Define the security strategy, requirements and secure-by-design approach across the programme lifecycle
• Lead threat modelling, vulnerability analysis, security risk assessment and accreditation activities
• Provide technical authority and informed security advice across systems, software and hardware engineering
• Make and communicate proportionate security decisions, balancing operational capability, technical risk and programme constraints
• Lead engagement with customers, programme partners and relevant assurance stakeholders
• Review security evidence and ensure that proposed designs and mitigations support the required assurance outcomes
• Coach and provide technical guidance to security and multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Drive the adoption of consistent product-security methods, tools and good practice across the programme

Essential experience

• Significant experience developing or leading product-security or systems-security architecture for complex engineered products
• Knowledge of Secure by Design principles and relevant product and systems security standards, ideally gained within defence, aerospace or another safety-critical engineering environment
• Strong experience defining security requirements and secure-by-design approaches at system or product level
• Experience leading threat modelling, security risk assessment and vulnerability-analysis activities
• Experience providing technical leadership and making security architecture decisions across multidisciplinary engineering teams
• Knowledge of…