Date Posted:
2026-04-10
Country:
United Kingdom
Location:
Gloucester, South Gloucestershire
Position Role Type:
Hybrid
Cyber Security Architect
Gloucester based
Perm, full time role
Hybrid working (min 3 days a week on site)
Benefits:
1. £:Competitive salary
2. Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
3. 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
4. 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
5. Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
6. Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including HealthCashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
7. Enhanced sick pay
8. Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
Work Culture
9. 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, jobrequirementor site-specific arrangements.
10. Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
11. Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
12. Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
13. Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.
About us
At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.
As a leading defence and aerospace companyoperatingacross the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.
Raytheon UKs Digital Technologies (DT) department are responsible for supporting and enabling the wider business in the delivery of its core services – supporting Raytheon UK to successfully enable collaboration, operational activities, and business delivery.
Role and Responsibilities
Sitting within the Cyber Security Team, the Cyber Security Architect will play a critical role in ensuring that Raytheon UK remain compliant with a range of internal and external security accreditations, standards and control sets. We are seeking a highly motivated and technically capable Cyber Security professional to develop into a security architect role within a fast-paced, governance-led environment. This role is designed for individuals with strong foundational experience who are ready to transition from hands-on engineering or operational security into architecture, design assurance, and strategic security leadership.
You will work with security leadership and the wider department to shape secure-by-design solutions, influence engineering practices and embed security into enterprise programmes.
Essential Experience
14. 3 to 7 years experience in cyber security, infrastructure, or systems engineering.
15. Background in roles such as: Security Engineer, Systems Engineer, Network Engineer, SOC Analyst (with strong technical depth)
16. Strong understanding of; Networking (TCP/IP, firewalls, segmentation), Operating systems (Windows/Linux), Identity and access management concepts, Cloud Fundamentals.
17. Exposure to security tooling (SIEM, IDS/IPS, EDR)
18. Strong understanding of core security principles such as: Defence in depth, Least privilege, Zero trust concepts
19. An understanding of designing and implementing secure systems to HMG security requirements.
20. Experience managing complex technology estates, with differing risk profiles.
Desirable
21. Information Security related certifications such as Security+, CISSP, CISM, GSEC, SSCP