You’ll operate sophisticated sensor equipment and be vital to the ship’s intelligence operation, transforming raw data into indispensable analysis and understanding of the operating environment.
This job sits within the Warfare Profession and is a Warfare Rating role. Being a Cryptologic Technician means you’re vital to the ship’s information gathering operation. The go-to for information that shapes the operational decision making process, your insight will transform raw data into an indispensable analysis of the situation and provide effects which have a direct impact on the mission.
What you will get paid from day one
Earn up to this amount as a WO1 basic pay depending on skills and experience as your career progresses
It’s a very varied role, allowing you to work across agencies at sea and on land. You basically collect information, turn it into intelligence and then consult the Commanding Officer to inform the shape of the mission.
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Cryptologic Technician, Warfare Branch
Being a Cryptologic Technician means you'll operate sophisticated sensor equipment and be vital to the ship's information gathering operation. The go-to for intelligence that shapes the operational decision-making process. Your insight will transform raw data into an indispensable analysis of the situation. You’ll also use your keen eye for detail to prepare briefings for senior officers. It’s these briefings, reports and effects that you deliver that will help them make each mission a success.
From picking your role to starting on your first day, these are the steps you'll take to join as a rating.
Once you’ve registered your interest in a Profession, and have satisfied some basic eligibility criteria, you will be sent an online application form.
You’ll be tested on: Verbal Reasoning, Numerical Reasoning, Work Rate, Spatial Reasoning, Electrical Comprehension and Mechanical Comprehension. You will need to attempt all sections of the DAA.
To help you prepare, you can practise the DAA.
A formal Selection Interview to confirm suitability of your chosen Profession followed by discussion of your preferred roles that are available within that Profession, including Submarine Service It will also cover the initial stages of the Security application. This is normally conducted using your own device over the Shine video platform.
This is a four-day induction to life in the Royal Navy, which includes assessments of your Fitness and your Medical eligibility, it is a pass or fail course.
Once you’ve passed all eligibility criteria, including a Security Check, you’ll be offered a place at HMS Raleigh to commence your initial training. Allocation to a specific role within your chosen profession will occur during the latter part of initial training.
Your Royal Navy career begins with 10 weeks’ basic training at HMS Raleigh, a shore base in Torpoint, Cornwall. The discipline, teamwork, organisational, firefighting and weapon handling skills you learn here will stay with you right through your career.
Cryptologic Technician is a specialised role that will involve almost two years of training before you are fully qualified to take up your first operational assignment. It includes: Warfare Training at HMS Collingwood in Fareham; Four to six months of sea training, gaining practical experience of life on board a modern warship; Six months at the Joint Intelligence and Training Group at Chicksands in Bedfordshire, where you’ll gain the technical knowledge and advanced skills that are vital to your role
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