Systems Engineer (Sovereign Territory Surveillance)

SRT Marine Systems plc; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent salary and package

Private health care

Career Development opportunities

Job summary

SRT Marine Systems plc is seeking a Systems Engineer to lead the definition and governance of requirements for complex surveillance systems across marine and land border security. You will translate operational and regulatory needs into structured requirements guiding design, verification, and delivery.

Hybrid role based in the Bristol area with WFH flexibility, collaborating with Product Management and engineering teams to ensure traceability, testability, and alignment with the product roadmap.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in systems engineering, requirements engineering, and architecture.
• Strong ability to write and manage complex technical requirements for large-scale systems.
• Experience on surveillance, defence, or mission-critical operational systems.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end requirements architecture for marine and land border surveillance solutions.
• Capture and structure operational, technical, regulatory, and non-functional requirements.
• Translate mission needs into clear, measurable system requirements and verification criteria.
• Maintain traceability across the engineering lifecycle and artefacts.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements engineering

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

SysML

Education

Bachelor's / Master’s degree in Systems/Engineering

Tools

SysML modelling tools

Job description

SRT Marine Systems plc (SRT) is a market leader in the domain of international marine surveillance technology and systems. We are a respected, established, and an ambitious multi-national company headquartered in the UK with a global customer base.

The company has a worldwide impact in the marine sector by leading the next generation of maritime domain awareness technologies “MDA”, products, and systems that significantly enhance security, safety, environmental protection, and sustainability. Our customers are global and range from the largest national coast guards to individual vessel owners.

We are now entering a new and strategically significant phase of growth, characterised by the expansion of our systems to incorporate Land Border Surveillance Systems. Our new Sovereign Territory Surveillance (STS) Systems will play a crucial role in enhancing civil defence security through the deployment of advanced automated security infrastructures. Utilised by nations worldwide, these technologies facilitate the monitoring of sovereign land borders, thereby strengthening border integrity and national security.

Systems Engineer (Sovereign Territory Surveillance)

We are seeking an experienced Systems Engineer to lead the definition, decomposition, management, and governance of requirements for complex surveillance systems supporting marine and land border security operations.

This role is responsible for translating operational, customer, regulatory, product, and technical needs into structured system requirements that guide technology strategy, solution design, integration, verification, and acceptance. Working closely with Product Management, engineering teams, customers, and operational stakeholders, you will ensure technical requirements are complete, traceable, testable, and aligned to both mission outcomes and product roadmap priorities.

The successful new colleague will act as the bridge between customer needs, product strategy, and engineering delivery, helping shape scalable surveillance capabilities across sensing, communications, analytics, and command-and-control systems.

Please note – the role of Systems Engineer is a hybrid role, working both in our Bristol office and WFH.

Key Responsibilities – Systems Engineer (not exhaustive)

• Own the end-to-end requirements architecture for marine and land border surveillance solutions
• Capture, analyse, and structure operational, technical, regulatory, and non-functional requirements.
• Translate mission needs into clear, measurable, and testable system requirements
• Decompose high-level requirements into subsystem and component-level specifications
• Maintain requirements traceability across the full engineering lifecycle
• Produce and maintain key artefacts including system requirements specifications, interface requirements, traceability matrices, and verification plans
• Define verification and validation criteria to ensure requirements can be proven through analysis, inspection, simulation, or testing
• Partner closely with Product Management to align system requirements with product roadmap priorities, release planning, and capability evolution
• Support feature prioritisation by assessing technical feasibility, delivery risk, and architectural impact
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and integration teams to ensure delivered solutions remain aligned with approved requirements
• Support governance activities including requirements reviews, change control, compliance, and customer acceptance

Requirements – Systems Engineer (not exhaustive)

• Extensive experience in systems engineering, requirements engineering, solution architecture, or related technical roles
• Strong experience writing and managing complex technical requirements for large-scale systems
• Experience working on surveillance, defence, security, or other mission-critical operational systems
• Strong knowledge of requirements engineering, decomposition, traceability, and verification methodologies
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with Product Management, engineering, and delivery teams
• Ability to translate ambiguous operational needs into structured technical requirements
• Strong understanding of complex integrated systems including sensors, communications, compute, analytics, and command-and-control
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and written communication skills
• Experience with systems modelling methodologies and formal requirements capture tools (for example SysML)

Highly Beneficial Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Computer Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Defence Technology, or a related discipline
• Experience in border security, maritime surveillance, coastal monitoring, or ISR environments
• Knowledge of radar, EO/IR systems, tracking systems, geospatial analytics, and Sensor Fusion

Benefits Package

• Excellent salary and package
• Private health care
• Career Development opportunities

SRT Marine Systems plc is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive working environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.