Security Architect

Trust Security Architect | Maritime Robotics & Autonomous Systems | UK

PLEASE NOTE: You must currently hold UK SC clearance and have DV clearance eligibility

This is not a standard security architecture role……..

• We are building the future of autonomous maritime operations — and we need a Trust Security Architect who can secure it from the ground up and lead, design and deploy Zero Trust Security across Cloud, IT and Operational Technology.
• We are an ambitious, technology-driven organisation operating at the frontier of maritime robotics and autonomous systems.
• Our platforms operate across cloud, edge and embedded environments in some of the most challenging and safety-critical conditions on the planet. Securing them requires a different kind of thinking.

The Role and What You Will Be Doing:

• Autonomous systems present a fundamentally different security problem to traditional IT environments. You are not just protecting data — you are protecting decision-making, navigation, command and control, and the physical integrity of platforms operating at sea.
• Leading Zero Trust architecture across cloud, IT, OT and embedded robotic systems — defining trust boundaries, identity models and secure communication patterns
• Design Secure device identity and attestation frameworks for COTS and proprietary hardware — protecting command-and-control channels from spoofing and adversarial interference
• Develop Secure data-centric architectures for maritime publisher-subscriber networks (ROS, DDS Security) — enabling micro-segmentation, mixed-criticality separation and real-time data validation
• Embed Cyber-resilience embedded into autonomous decision-making — validating sensor streams (AIS, RADAR, GNSS) and countering tampering and spoofing
• Align Security architecture alignment with engineering, operations and defence governance — acting as senior authority for secure network design and long-term security roadmaps

What We Are Looking For/Must Have Experience:

• Deep expertise in Zero Trust, identity-centric security, secure communications and cryptographic trust frameworks for distributed and resource-constrained systems
• Proven experience in cyber-physical and embedded security architecture — owning end-to-end security design across cloud, IT and OT environments
• We need someone who has operated across cyber-physical boundaries, understands the unique constraints of embedded and OT environments, and can lead Zero Trust architecture end-to-end across a hybrid ecosystem of cloud, IT, OT and robotic systems.
• Ability to operate across mixed COTS and proprietary hardware/software ecosystems — securing high-latency or intermittent networks including satellite, mesh and private 5G
• Familiar with secure coding for embedded systems — C/C++, Rust, Python or Go
• Clear, structured communicator with strong threat-modelling and problem-solving skills — able to align technical and non-technical stakeholders in safety-critical environments
• You must hold UK SC clearance and have DV clearance eligibility

Highly desirable:

• Experience with autonomous systems, unmanned vehicles or maritime robotics
• Familiarity with maritime cyber regulations and class society requirements
• Knowledge of hardware security modules, PKI for constrained devices and machine-to-machine identity management
• Understanding of GNSS/GPS spoofing mitigation and resilient command-and-control architectures

Why This Role?

• You will be shaping the security architecture of genuinely pioneering autonomous maritime systems — this is not a policy or governance role
• You will work at the intersection of robotics, autonomy, software engineering and cybersecurity — a rare and genuinely exciting technical environment
• You will have real authority — acting as the senior security voice across the organisation with direct influence on roadmaps, design decisions and engineering direction
• You will be joining a team that is building something that has never been built before

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