Senior Product Security Engineer

Job Description

Salary £45,000 - £55,000

Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity.

Do you want to play a pivotal role in protecting the next generation of defence technologies? Are you excited by the challenge of influencing product cyber resilience at the cutting edge of fighter aircraft development?

Our Electronic Warfare (EW) and Future Combat Air Systems (FCAS) Design Integrity team is seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer. In this role, you will be responsible for the delivery of product security activities throughout the engineering lifecycle, working closely with multidisciplinary product teams across our Electronic Warfare and Future Combat Air business areas. You will play a key role in ensuring that security is embedded into the design and development of innovative defence solutions from concept through to delivery.

This position is working on a hybrid basis and requires you to work at least one day per week from one of our following sites;
Luton, Lincoln, Southampton, Basildon or Bristol. Regular monthly travel to our Luton site will also be required.

• Support the production of work package descriptions and cost estimates in support of product bids, services and proposals.
• Drive Security Assurance through the full product lifecycle, ensuring every design is robust, compliant, and resilient. Contributing to continual improvement of the engineering capability.
• Provide independent Information Assurance (IA) reviews and risk assessments on a variety of complex, high-impact projects.
• Contribute to Leonardo’s UK-wide Security and IA community — shaping best practice and influencing security strategy.
• 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.
• Liaison with Security Accreditors and Security Assurance Coordinators in support of security Accreditation.

• Practical experience of ISO
  27001/27004/27005 and NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF).
• Experience working with a security risk management system for highly regulated products based on recognised frameworks such as aerospace, nuclear, automotive, rail or oil and gas.
• Good understanding and appreciation of the Engineering development life cycles and how the Product Security specialism aligns.
• Ability to interpret Penetration Test Reports and write Remediation Action Plans.
• An appreciation of the wider UK Government Assurance Processes (such as the legacy JSP 604 Assurance or the CAF Gov Assure processes).

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 //

• Time to Recharge enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Secure your Future benefit from our award‑winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your Wellbeing Matters free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee‑led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
• Rewarding Performance all employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
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