Senior System Security Engineer

Senior System Security Engineer

Indianapolis, IN

We are looking for a Senior System Security Engineer to join our team working to secure the range of Roll-Royce products against an increasingly diverse and complex range of threats. You’ll be part of a multi-disciplinary team, working together to tackle technical challenges in a stimulating and collaborative environment.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on flagship RR programmes and play an important role in addressing some of the most complex and interesting technological challenges across Rolls-Royce. You will be encouraged to further develop and leverage your skills and experience in System Security Engineering and to help grow RR capability in this pivotal area.

Innovate & Power the World

To ensure we continue to be pioneers of our industry, Rolls-Royce has a team of over 16,500 engineers around the globe. They include everyone from world experts in their field to those who manage hundreds of people and millions of dollars’ worth of investments. We recruit engineers at all levels and in a range of disciplines. And while we encourage specialisation, we also offer freedom to cross-specialise and develop skills across a number of different areas.

At Rolls-Royce, we look beyond tomorrow. We continually pioneer integrated power and propulsion solutions to deliver cleaner, safer, and more competitive power.

Rolls-Royce is a Military Friendly Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. You can learn more here.

Key Accountabilities

• Provide technical leadership in determining the technology and processes required to secure a range of Rolls-Royce products and systems against cyber threats, working alongside programme, product and corporate teams
• Act as a local/business technical specialist in system security engineering/product cyber security, applying technical knowledge and providing technical direction as required.
• Manage a small number of projects and/or individuals in this subject area, providing technical leadership to teams or projects in addition to having impact through functional knowledge.
• Work in partnership with government clients, our supply-chain and industry experts to enhance cyber security capability and tools across our global organization
• Identify new technological solutions to increase product cyber security and resilience and support their integration into products, processes and ways of working
• Develop, update and champion cyber security good practice and help ensure the techniques, policies, procedures and knowledge and play a leading role in helping us implement this good practice across the business
  

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree with 5+ years of experience in engineering or cyber security, or
• Master's degree with 3+ years of experience in engineering or cyber security, or
• JD/PhD, or
• In order to be considered for this role, must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a US Secret security clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience working in Systems Security Engineering on real-time cyber-physical embedded systems (ie - aviation systems, software defined vehicles, medical devices, weapon systems, etc) OR 6+ years of experience working in a related Engineering role (ie - Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Electronics Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, etc)
• Familiarity with Systems Engineering on complex systems and excellent systems thinking aptitude: the ability to understand complex system boundaries, interactions, and interdependencies across multiple abstraction layers throughout the system’s entire lifecycle.
• Deep knowledge of embedded systems and the technical skills required to develop, implement, and secure such cyber-physical systems.
• Experience or interest in cybersecurity and cyber threats (ie - designing secure products, systems, and applications; intrusion detection; digital forensics; system recovery; risk assessment tools and methods; security solutions, policies, standards, and procedures, etc.).
• Knowledge and/or experience in applying systems security policies and standards in engineering cyber-physical systems such as the Risk Management Framework (RMF), NIST SP 800-160, DO-326, and DoDI 5000.83.
• Excellent communications skills: able to influence without authority and describe complex ideas simply and succinctly to non-technical people.
  

Pioneer the next generation of innovation. Join us and you’ll develop your skills and expertise to the very highest levels, working in an international environment for a company known the world over for its brilliance.

Our People are our Power

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. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realize their full potential. You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy here.

Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

Closing Date: December 31, 2024

Benefits

Rolls-Royce provides a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes base pay and a discretionary bonus plan. Eligible employees may have the opportunity to enroll in other benefits, including health, dental, vision, disability, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; a flexible spending account; a health savings account; a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match; Employee Assistance Program; Paid Time Off; certain paid holidays; paid parental and family care leave; tuition reimbursement; and a long-term incentive plan. The options available to an employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as date of hire, employment type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.