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About the Role
What's in it for you?
- Competitive salary.
- Predominantly working from home with occasional travel to Ampthill and customer sites, as and when required.
- Flexible working including a 4 day working pattern.
The candidate will be required to:
- Identify security risks within complex systems, products and solutions and ensuring that those risks are addressed by the implementation and delivery of effective and balanced security controls and mitigations to address the risks; Contribution to, and conduct trade studies related to system physical and information security.
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Ensure that the security requirements are incorporated into the systems as part of an overall systems engineering approach, including:
- Specification of security requirements;
- Development of security architectures;
- Review of design & implementation;
- Specification of verification requirements;
- Acceptance of verification evidence;
- Provision of evidence for system level requirements.
- Engaging with stakeholders, engineering teams and sub-contractors to provide direction, guidance and support on acceptable and balanced security solutions.
- Develop the accreditation document set to MoD standards; Liaison with customers, accreditors and technical authorities;
- Engage with stakeholders, including the DAIS Accreditor and Security Assurance Coordinator, to ensure that the security solution is accreditable whilst imposing minimal burdens on the development programme and end users;
- Develop programme plans and cost estimates in support of both current programmes and bids & proposals.
Required skills, qualifications and experience
- Knowledge and understanding of MoD, UK Government and international security standards, policies, guidance and legislation;
- Experience of security risk assessments, risk treatment plans, and accreditation document sets (SRA/SRS/SAD and/or RMADS);
- Demonstrable knowledge of systems engineering and development practices;
- Defence background;
- Strong Physical security knowledge;
- Data Networking / Cyber Security experience ;
- Information assurance experience across the systems engineering development lifecycle preferred;
- Understanding of security validation & verification, testing and evaluation approached preferred;
- Previous experience of accrediting products in a military environment preferred;
- (ISC)2 membership with CISSP, SCCP, or CAP (Senior SIRA or Senior Architect) preferred or equivalent.
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What we offer you
We are an employer in support of and offering Flexible working with the option to also work a 4 day week depending on business requirements, where you have the option of Fridays off. We offer Competitive salaries alongside a flexible holiday entitlement.
We have a Wealth of benefits available to you that can be selected through our wellbeing tool upon commencement of employment. Just a few of our amazing benefits are shown below:
- Private Medical Insurance
- Competitive Pension
- Dental
- Critical Illness
- Life Assurance
- Travel Insurance
- Employee discounts for top high street shops
- Employee Assistance Program which includes free face to face counselling sessions, Legal advice, Financial advice, etc
- Internal training and development alongside out Education assistance programmes
- Reimbursement for a professional membership
- Competitive policies that support flexibility and family leave inclusive of enhanced maternity leave
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