Surety Systems Engineer

About the job

Location: RG7 4PR, located between Reading and Basingstoke, with free onsite parking.

Package:

• Junior Systems Engineer (recent graduates): £31,000 - £35,000 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)

• Systems Engineer (PHD or graduates with post-grad experience): £36,000 - £44,000 (depending on your suitability and level of experience)

Working pattern: AWE operates a 9-day working fortnight. We will consider flexible working requests so that your work may fit in with your lifestyle. Just let us know your preferred working pattern on your application.

Closing Date: 18th November 2024

Let us introduce the role

AWE is currently recruiting for Systems Engineers to join our Surety Group.

This role is ideally suited to a Systems Engineer who enjoys carrying out holistic assessments and developing balanced and verifiable system architectures.

The AWE Surety Group is developing an enhanced capability to holistically assess safety, security and dependability to advise our customers and develop balanced and verifiable system architectures, by capturing and translating stakeholder vision into system and sub-system requirements, developing concepts, system architectures and the tools and techniques to analyse them.

Who are we looking for?

We do need you to have the following:

• Engineering degree or relevant qualification and experience in the industry
• Experience in requirements analysis (may be security or safety specific) and use cases

Whilst not to be considered a tick list, we'd like you to have experience in some of the following:

• Understanding how different components interact within a system, including dependencies and impacts.
• Strong problem-solving abilities to analyse complex systems and identify vulnerabilities.
• Ability to identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with technology and systems.
• Ability to convey technical concepts clearly to diverse stakeholders.

Some reasons we think you'll love it here:

AWE has wide range of benefits to suit you. These include:

• 9-day working fortnight - meaning you get every other Friday off work, in addition to 270 hours of annual leave.
• Market leading contributory pension scheme (we will pay between 9% and 13% of your pensionable pay depending on your contributions).
• Family friendly policies: Maternity Leave - 39 Weeks Full Pay and Paternity Leave - 4 Weeks Full Pay.
• Opportunities for Professional Career Development including funding for annual membership of a relevant professional body.
• Employee Assistance Programme and Occupational Health Services.
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary).
• Discounts - access to savings on a wide range of everyday spending.
• Special Leave Policy including paid time off for volunteering, public service (including reserve forces) and caring.

The 'Working at AWE' page on our website is where you can find full details in the 'AWE Benefits Guide'.

Important things you need to know:

• You will need to obtain and maintain the necessary security clearance for the role. This will be funded by AWE. The nature of our work does mean you need to be a British Citizen who has been resident in the UK for the past 5 years in order to apply for SC clearance and 10 years for DV.

• We want you to feel comfortable and able to shine during our recruitment process. Please let us know on your application form if you need any adjustments/accommodations during the process.

• Our interviews typically take place over Teams and for most roles are a 1 stage process.

Due to the classified nature of the work involved, there are limited opportunities to work from home in this role. It is anticipated that the successful candidate will spend the majority of their time working on site at AWE Aldermaston.

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