Product Security Degree Apprentice

Leonardo offers a range of Apprenticeships from 2-5 years across a variety of STEM and business routes, offering paid training coupled with on-the-job learning. This programme enables you to gain practical skills, experience, and knowledge to start your career. We offer competitive entry salaries and fully support your academic learning through to qualifications, with salary increases as you progress.

We support you in settling into your new location, ensuring you are familiar with the team and have a warm welcome from day 1. There is a member of our Apprentice team at each site, helping you progress, ensuring your study time is protected, enabling access to digital learning as well as opportunities to get involved with the local community and STEM projects.

Your Impact

This role offers the opportunity to work on UK defence programmes, influencing the security of technologies that protect national security. You will join a collaborative team of experts committed to technical excellence and continuous advancement.

Our Integrated Sensors and Protection Systems (ISP) Design Integrity security team is looking to take on a Degree Apprentice Product Security Engineer. You will develop the skills to embed security into products throughout the product lifecycle, helping to develop resilient, compliant, and threat-resistant solutions.

What You'll Develop

• Define and manage product security requirements.
• Provide expert guidance to integrated project teams on security standards, methodologies, and best practice.
• Develop and implement security processes, tools, and protocols.
• Produce and maintain key security artefacts, including Risk Assessments, Threat Analyses, and Remediation Action Plans.
• Drive security assurance activities throughout the full product lifecycle.
• Support the continuous improvement of security engineering capability, processes, and ways of working.
• Collaborate with security specialists to deliver effective security assurance and risk management.

Requirements

• Three or more STEM-based A levels or equivalent.
• A desire to learn about cyber threats, attack methods, and techniques to mitigate security risks within Information and Operational Technology environments.
• An enthusiasm for engineering.
• Good communication skills.

The most important skill is a good attitude and willingness to learn.

Security Clearance

Many roles at Leonardo are subject to security and export control restrictions. Successful applicants will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK, criminal record declaration information, and employment and/or education history verification for the previous five years.

For staff operating in more sensitive posts, there are additional personnel security controls (National Security Vetting - NSV). To be eligible for NSV at SC level, applicants will generally be expected to have continuously resided in the UK for the previous five years. For DV clearance, this is typically ten years.

Benefits

• Generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks.
• All employees are eligible for our bonus scheme.
• Annual Employee Stock Ownership Plan.
• Up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, and gym memberships.

Location

• GB - Basildon
• Hybrid Working