Description
INFORMATION ASSURANCE ENGINEER
BRAND NEW OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE WITHIN A LEADING DEFENCE COMPANY FOR AN INFORMATION ASSURANCE ENGINEER
- Opportunity for a Information Assurance Engineer
- Must be able to obtain SC clearance (for further info on how to be eligible, please get in touch)
- National leading company
- Up to £550 per day inside IR35
- Bedfordshire based in an easily accessible location
- To apply please email (see below)
The Role
The candidate will be required to:
- 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;
- Identifying 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 information security.
- 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 information security solutions.
- Develop the accreditation document set to MoD standards; Liaison with customers, accreditors and technical authorities;
- Perform, and contribute to, trade studies that impact information assurance;
Develop programme plans and cost estimates in support of both current programmes and bids & proposals;
WE NEED YOU TO HAVE .
- 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;
- Information assurance experience across the systems engineering development life cycle preferred;
- Understanding of security validation & verification, testing and evaluation approached preferred;
- Previous experience of accrediting products in a military environment preferred
- Experience of product/systems development environment. In particular military vehicle/Land domain or Air Defence/Weapons domains.
- Ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to work with limited day-to-day supervision, but must know when to seek assistance.
TO BE CONSIDERED .
Please either apply by clicking online or emailing me directly to (see below)
For further information please call me. I can make myself available outside of normal working hours to suit from 8am until 8pm. If unavailable, please leave a message and either myself or one of my colleagues will respond. By applying for this role, you give express consent for us to process & submit (subject to required skills) your application to our client in conjunction with this vacancy only. I look forward to hearing from you.
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