Cyber Security Architect
Location: Gloucester, South Gloucestershire | Hybrid (min 3 days a week on site)
Benefits
* Competitive salary
* Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
* 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
* 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
* Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
* Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work among others
* Enhanced sick pay
* Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave
Work Culture
* 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
* Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
* Remote, hybrid and site-based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
* Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
* 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.
Role and Responsibilities
Sitting within the Cyber Security Team, the Cyber Security Architect will play a critical role in ensuring Raytheon UK remains compliant with a range of internal and external security accreditations, standards and control sets. The 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
* 3 to 7 years experience in cyber security, infrastructure, or systems engineering.
* Background in roles such as Security Engineer, Systems Engineer, Network Engineer, SOC Analyst (with strong technical depth).
* Strong understanding of networking (TCP/IP, firewalls, segmentation), operating systems (Windows/Linux), identity and access management concepts, and cloud fundamentals.
* Exposure to security tooling (SIEM, IDS/IPS, EDR).
* Strong understanding of core security principles such as defence in depth, least privilege, zero‑trust concepts.
* Understanding of designing and implementing secure systems to HMG security requirements.
* Experience managing complex technology estates with differing risk profiles.
Desirable
* Information Security related certifications such as Security+, CISSP, CISM, GSEC, SSCP.
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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