About this role
Salary: £36,000 - 60,000 per year
Requirements
- Active SC clearance is mandatory; DV clearance is preferred
- Extensive experience in Product Security, Cybersecurity Engineering, or related activities
- Strong understanding of Product Security and Cybersecurity Engineering principles
- Knowledge of security requirements, risk assessment, and security assurance
- Demonstrable experience within MOD, Defence Digital, or UK aerospace and defence environments
- Ability to translate security engineering needs into digital solutions and workflows
- Understanding of Systems Engineering processes and the engineering lifecycle
- Experience working on complex products and engineering programmes
- Experience with Cameo, Rhapsody, or other MBSE environments
- Experience integrating security tools with requirements management, architecture, and Digital Thread solutions
- Knowledge of aerospace Product Security standards and practices
Responsibilities
- Capture Product Security engineering requirements and translate them into effective digital solutions and workflows
- Develop digital processes supporting security requirements, risk assessments, and security assurance
- Support the design, implementation, and testing of digital Product Security solutions, including proofs of concept and pilot projects
- Establish traceability between security risks, requirements, architectures, and verification evidence
- Support integration with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), requirements management, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) environments
- Collaborate with Product Security, Systems Engineering, and wider engineering stakeholders to validate and deploy solutions
- Contribute to digital engineering standards, processes, and governance
Technologies
- Support
- Security
- System Engineer
More
We are seeking a System Engineer (Product Security Cybersecurity) to support the development of digital engineering solutions across complex, sensitive aerospace and defence programmes. The role bridges Product Security engineering and digital engineering, supporting improved security risk management, requirements traceability, and assurance throughout the engineering lifecycle. It is based at our Reading HQ, with 2–3 days onsite per week. The rate is up to £99 per hour, inside IR35. This is an opportunity to contribute to the development of digital Product Security capabilities.
last updated 46 week of 2026