Information Assurance Security Lead (Cyber and Safety) - Submarines

Information Assurance Security Lead (Cyber and Safety) - Submarines

Company: Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce pioneers cutting-edge technologies that deliver clean, safe & competitive solutions to meet our planet’s vital power needs.

Location: Bristol

Job Type: Full Time - (SC Clearance Required)

There is currently an exciting opportunity for an Information Assurance Security Lead to join the Alliance Team. Your role involves engaging effectively with a large stakeholder base including the capability customer, in-service community, intelligence community, and UK SMEs in IA/cyber and involvement in early activities to understand how to better integrate the cyber and safety domains within the programme. Please note this role requires full SC Clearance.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead, coordinate and assure all activities towards achieving IA/cyber security accreditation of the Dreadnought submarine.
• Set strategic direction towards achieving cyber security accreditation across the large and complex Dreadnought programme, maintaining oversight and holding to account all suppliers into the Dreadnought programme across the Nuclear Enterprise.
• Provide leadership, representation and intervention as appropriate at Security Working Groups at all tiers of the programme, sometimes down to individual sub-tier suppliers in high-risk areas.
• Provide advice and support to the rest of the Dreadnought alliance on cyber security (policy, implementation, risk management, technical testing etc.).

Who we’re looking for:

• A substantial range of cyber and information security knowledge.
• Experience, knowledge and/or qualifications in more of the following: cyber security of networks, interfacing, industrial control systems, penetration testing & product security.
• Experience in implementation of cost-effective and pragmatic security enforcing functions within systems or equipment and at system-of-systems design levels.
• Experience in leading and managing cyber security on complex Engineering programmes.
• Experience in cyber security in the defence environment.
• Professional engineering qualifications.

Security Clearance: This role requires SC clearance. Please note for this role SC, Reserved, Sole UK national.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem-solving.

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business, an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place.

Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets, we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.