Systems Security Engineer

Indianapolis, IN

We’re looking for a Systems Security Engineer to join our growing team. In this role, your focus will be on helping to secure a range of Roll-Royce Defense products against an increasingly diverse and highly detailed range of threats. You’ll be part of a multi-disciplinary team, working together to tackle technical tasks in a stimulating and collaborative environment.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on flagship RR programs and play an important role in addressing some of the most highly detailed and interesting technological tasks in Defense. You will be encouraged to further develop and leverage your skills and experience in Systems Security Engineering and to help grow RR capability in this pivotal area.

Dream Big and Make an Impact

This is a time of exciting growth for the Defense business as we work to develop power and propulsion systems for a range of new purposes and programs. Against this backdrop of growth, ‘product’ cybersecurity – along with ‘enterprise’ cybersecurity – is ever more important. As a result, we are growing our team of Systems Security Engineers and now seek an enthusiastic, self-starting you to play an important role in developing and implementing cybersecurity capability for our Defense products.

At Rolls-Royce, we pioneer technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most aspiring solutions to our planet’s vital power needs. We embrace the power of data and technology and aim to be Digital First in everything we do.

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 guide 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 specialization, we also offer freedom to cross-specialize and develop skills across a number of different areas.

Rolls-Royce is a Military Friendly Employer. We evaluate qualified you 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:

• Work with the core product security and Liberty Works teams to agree the technology and processes required to meet customer requirements for system security and resiliency
• Act as a business technical specialist in secure cyber resilient engineering (SCRE), applying technical knowledge and providing technical direction as required throughout the product lifecycle: requirements, design, build, test, production, operations, and support
• A small number of you or projects in this subject area, providing technical capacity to teams or projects in addition to having impact through functional knowledge
• Collaborate with government, customers, suppliers, and industry experts to enhance systems security capability and tools
• Identify new technological solutions to increase product cybersecurity and resilience, including identifying relevant emerging technologies and research areas
• Develop and update systems security and resilience good practice and help ensure the techniques, policies, procedures, and knowledge to enable us to implement this good practice across the business.

Basic Requirements:

• Associate degree with 7+ in a relevant engineering environment (Electrical, Software, Systems)
• Bachelor's degree in STEM discipline with experience in a relevant engineering environment (Electrical, Software, Systems) with 5+ years’ experience, OR
• Masters degree in STEM discipline with experience in a relevant engineering environment (Electrical, Software, Systems), with 3+ years’ experience OR
• JD/PhD OR
• 9+ in a relevant engineering environment (Electrical, Software, Systems), in lieu of degree.
• In order to be considered for this role, should be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a high-level security clearance.

Preferred Requirements:

• Excellent systems thinking aptitude: the ability to understand highly detailed system boundaries, interactions, and interdependencies across multiple abstraction layers throughout the systems’ entire lifecycle.
• Some 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 ( designing secure products, systems, and applications; intrusion detection; digital forensics; system recovery; risk assessment tools and methods; security solutions, policies, standards, and procedures)
• Desire to mentor and educate other members of the team. Dynamically learn, develop, apply, and share recently gained knowledge and skills in this face-paced and dynamic discipline
• An interest in novel and emerging technology solutions and how they might be used to enhance system security and resiliency
• Outcome-focused, with good problem-solving abilities, including an aptitude for finding practical solutions to highly detailed technical problems.

Rolls-Royce has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. Designing, building and servicing systems that provide critical power to customers, where safety and reliability are paramount. Our engineering excellence is the power behind some of the most critical technologies used in the air, at sea and on land. Across Civil Aerospace, Power Systems, Defence and in our unique nuclear capabilities, we provide a range of differentiated technologies and products.