Product Cyber Security - Undergraduate Placement 2027
// Role Summary
Join a leading defence company as an Undergraduate Cyber Security Placement student, gaining hands-on experience in securing complex weapon systems. This 1-year placement offers a fantastic opportunity to apply academic learning to real-world projects and potentially secure a graduate role.
// Key Responsibilities
- Gain practical experience in cyber security for complex weapon systems.
- Contribute to risk identification, assessment, and mitigation strategies.
- Involve yourself in the full systems engineering lifecycle, from requirements to architecture.
- Opportunity to secure a graduate role upon successful placement.
- Benefit from a dynamic, hybrid working environment and excellent company benefits.
// Role Specification
Product Cyber Security - Undergraduate Placement 2027
The CyberSecurity department delivers effective information security solutions for complex weapon systems and their associated sub-systems, providing documentation and evidence to support security approval and assurance activities within the programme context.
What we can offer you:
- 1 year placement: Starting September 2027, that allows you to apply your university learning to real-world projects and technologies.
- Perform well on your placement and you could secure a graduate role before your final year.
- Company bonus: Based on company performance and will vary year to year.
- Pension: Maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%.
- Overtime: Opportunity for paid overtime.
- Annual Leave: 25 days plus option to purchase extra holiday.
- Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days.
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more.
- Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.
The opportunity:
Throughout this opportunity, you will be involved in identifying security risks within complex weapon systems, products and solutions and ensuring that those risks are addressed by the implementation and delivery of effective and balanced security measures. You will be able to assist in the timely integration of information assurance activities with the weapon system engineering, design, manufacturing and support programmes.
There will also be opportunity to contribute to trade studies related to weapon system information security and provide security documentation and evidence to meet MOD security assurance requirements.
You will get involved in the entire systems engineering lifecycle of delivered weapon systems including specification of security requirements and development of security architectures, as well as help develop security architectures to enable sustainable evolution of security architectures through life.
Further work packages could include supporting hardware, electronics and software developments, contributing to corporate information assurance knowledge and capability and maintaining knowledge of technology development and implications for information security as well as working with manufacturing to ensure that the sec