Advanced Cyber Unit Analyst

Job Title: Advanced Cyber Unit Analyst

Working Pattern: Full-time

Working location: Indianapolis, IN or Remote

As an Advanced Cyber Unit Analyst for Rolls-Royce, you’ll play a key role in proactively identifying threat agents attacking or planning to attack the organization and quelling the risk at the earliest possible juncture.  This is an exciting, newly created opportunity where you’ll work within a global
team to detect, disrupt and eradicate threat actors.

Our Global IT function is at the heart of enabling us to become the world’s leading industrial technology company. We’re changing in IT, moving towards a simpler, cleaner, more aligned product structure which empowers the businesses driving innovation and mitigating risk.

At Rolls-Royce, we pioneer cutting-edge technologies that deliver the cleanest, safest and most competitive solutions to our planet’s vital power needs. We embrace the power of data and technology and aim to be Digital First in everything we do.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

Rolls-Royce has been recognized as the top employer in the Engineering & Manufacturing category on the prestigious Forbes Top Employers for Engineers list for 2025. This ranking highlights our commitment to innovation, employee development, and fostering a collaborative environment where engineers can thrive.

Be part of a team that sets the industry standard and drives groundbreaking solutions.

At Rolls-Royce, we are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We foster a welcoming and innovative work environment that invests in you, giving you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

Rolls-Royce is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristics.

What you will be doing

With this attractive opportunity you will get a chance to:

• Identify suspicious or anomalous activities by analyzing logs, packet captures and alerts from IDS/IPS, Firewall, Proxies, SIEMSs, and take appropriate action to resolve
• Support the Rolls-Royce SOCs in managing security incidents and escalating severe security incidents.  Create comprehensive security  write-ups  which  articulate  security  analysis  and remediation techniques.
• Conduct research and utilise various intelligence sources to maintain awareness and understanding of the current threat landscape and emerging security threats
• Create  comprehensive  security  assessments  which  articulate  security  issues,  analysis  and remediation techniques.
• Continuously  seek  to  identify  potential  service  /  tool  improvements  which  will  enhance  the delivered services.
• Identify who has attacked or is about to attack the organisation. by analysing threat intelligence, evaluating threats and vulnerabilities and understanding threat actor’s modus operandi.
• Leading hunt exercises using threat intelligence, analysis of anomalous log data, brainstorming sessions and attack tree analysis to detect and eradicate threat actors.
• Suggest  modifications  to  internal  defences  and  processes  for  more  effective  and  efficient security operations.

Who we’re looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

Basic Requirements:

• Associates degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or Information
  Technology with 4+ years of experience in information technology security OR;
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology with 2+ years of years of experience in information technology security, OR;
• Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology, OR;
• PhD in degree Business, Engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology
• In lieu of a degree, must have 6+ years of experience in information technology security
• To be eligible for consideration, you must be a U.S. Citizen

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience as a SOC Security Analyst and familiarity with industry leading security products such as SIEMs and networking mapping, vulnerability scanning and packet capture and data analytics tools
• Experience of network anomaly detection  using  traffic  analysis  or  network  intruder  detection systems
• A basic understanding of the cyber kill chain in relation to Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)
• Experience and knowledge of threat actor tactics, techniques and procedures, vulnerabilities, attacks and countermeasures.
• Experience of presenting on cyber security issues

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location.  It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement.

As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

For fully remote roles, employees can live in any state except Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, Vermont, and Wyoming.

Relocation assistance is available for this position.

Closing date: March 15th, 2026

Information Technology $94,160 - $153,010-Annually Indianapolis, IN or Remote

Benefits

Rolls-Royce provides a comprehensive and competitive Total Rewards package that includes base pay and a discretionary bonus plan. Eligible employees may have the opportunity to enroll in other benefits, including health, dental, vision, disability, life and accidental death & dismemberment insurance; a flexible spending account; a health savings account; a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match; Employee Assistance Program; Paid Time Off; certain paid holidays; paid parental and family care leave; tuition reimbursement; and a long-term incentive plan. The options available to an employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as date of hire, employment type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.