RTX
Cyber Security Engineer
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Date Posted: 2026-07-08
Country: United Kingdom
Location: Gloucester, South Gloucestershire
Position
Role Type: Hybrid
Title: Cyber Security Architect
Description:
Gloucester based Perm, full time role
Hybrid working (min 3 days a week on site)
Benefits
- Salary: Competitive
- Pension: Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
- Life Assurance: 6 times salary with pension
- Holidays: 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
- Bonus: Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
- Flexible Benefits: Extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
- Sick Pay: Enhanced sick pay
- Family Friendly Policies: 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
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 company operating across 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.
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Raytheon UK's 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
This role is designed for a technically strong cyber security or IT professional who is looking to transition into a Cyber Security Architect position over time. You will join as a Cyber Security Engineer and develop the skills, experience, and exposure needed to move into architecture, working closely with experienced security architects and engineers. We are not expecting prior architecture experience. Instead, we are looking for individuals with a solid technical foundation, strong curiosity, and the ability to think critically about how systems are designed and secured. This is a growth role with a clear pathway into security architecture.
Essential Experience
- 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
- 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
- An understanding of designing and implementing secure systems to HMG security requirements.
- Experience managing complex technology estates, with differing risk profiles.
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Desirable
- Information Security related certifications such as Security+, CISSP, CISM, GSEC, SSCP
Equal Employment Opportunity
RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Company Overview
RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
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