Job Description

Date Posted: 2025-02-21
Country: United Kingdom
Location: Near Reading
Position Role Type: Unspecified
System Security Group Senior Engineer (IA Senior Engineer)
Near Reading, hybrid
Perm, 37hr week
Raytheon UK
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.
Joining our team means being part of an organisation that shapes the future of national security whilst investing in your growth and personal development. We provide a collaborative environment, abundant opportunities for professional development, and a profound sense of purpose in what we do. Together, we are not just advancing technology; we're building a community committed to safeguarding a safer and more connected world.
Through advanced technology and our peoples expertise, our Training Transformation Services is modernising whats possible in the training and preparation of our armed forces. With a real blended approach to learning and using the latest innovative systems and technology, we ensure our service men and women really are prepared for any situation.
About the role:
The Systems Security Group Senior Engineer role is a critical role within TTS (Training Transformation Services). This role supports the business in a constructive way, always offering the required assurances to both business and customer whilst providing innovative solutions to risk-based problems.
Skills and Experience

• Forward facing (used to talking to/chairing meetings with customers at a senior level)
• Understanding of formulating, recording and managing security risk
• Understands security requirements and how to decompose them
• Knowledge of Information Assurance (IA) processes and procedures
• Understanding/experience of Secure by Design
• Understanding/experience of waterfall and agile methodologies
• Understanding how obsolescence impacts IA
• Supporting the development of Risk Management Framework documents and controls

Desirable

• Experience/understanding of Cryptography including processes and procedures
• Experience of assessment of systems in non-standard environments
• Experience of being on a Bid team
• Understanding of simulated environments (eg actual vs dummy datasets)
• Working knowledge of

• NIST Risk Management Framework
• ISO 27001 or equivalent standards
• HMG Security Policy Framework and GovS 007: Security
• Hold a current professional Information Security certification or qualification (e.g. CISSP, CGRC, CISM, CRISC, BCS CITP)

Responsibilities
You will be responsible for supporting Information Assurance across the programme. You will be comfortable working in a matrix management organisation, you will act as the trusted advisor to the programme by ensuring industry best practice and that customer security requirements are implemented with regards to IA, cyber security and security risk management.
Benefits and Work Culture
Benefits

• Competitive salaries.
• 25 days holiday + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary).
• 6 times salary xe2x80x98Life Assurance with pension.
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others.
• Enhanced sick pay.
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave.
• Car / Car allowance (dependant on grade/ role)
• Private Medical Insurance (dependant on grade)

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• A grownup flexible working culture that is output, not time spent at desk, focussed. More formal flexible working arrangements can also be requested and assessed subject to the role. Please enquire or highlight any request to our Talent Acquisition team to explore the flexible working possibilities.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

RTX
Raytheon UK is a landed company and part of the wider RTX organisation. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, USA, but with over 180,000 employees globally across every continent, RTX provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide and comprises three industry-leading businesses Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon.
Supporting over 35,000 jobs across 13 UK sites, RTX is helping to drive prosperity. Each year our work contributes over 32.7bn to the UK economy and offers a wealth of opportunities to 4,000 suppliers across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Were investing in all corners of the country, supporting 29,040 jobs in England, 3,040 in Northern Ireland, 1,900 in Scotland and 1,600 in Wales.
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