Job Title: Network Security Engineer
Location: Corsham, Wiltshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Network Security Engineer at our Hawthorn site, near Corsham, Wiltshire.
The Role
As the Network Security Engineer, you will have the opportunity to further develop your knowledge in a wide range of networking technologies.
The Network Security Engineer will be responsible for maintaining the network security baseline and other tasks such as vulnerability management, threat detection and monitoring, incident response and security control implementation.
1. Assist with network configuration and internal audits.
2. Perform gap analysis on systems and services.
3. Maintain baselines across Linux and Microsoft technology stacks.
4. Develop and enhance network and cyber security baselines.
5. Implement cyber security tooling and controls.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with up to 3 days onsite and 2 days working from home.
Essential Experience of the Network Security Engineer
6. Experience in a Network Security role.
7. Experience of ICT systems in complexed environments.
8. Experience creating, maintaining, and cataloguing Configuration Management documentation.
9. An understanding of security architecture required within compartmented certified environments.
10. Knowledge of JSP desirable
Qualifications for the Network Security Engineer
11. Preferably supported by a relevant certificate/ qualification.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. You may be required to achieve Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance once in post.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at
What We Offer
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually
20. ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
21. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer.