Job Title: Cloud Platform Administrator
Location: Rosyth or Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape the Future of Secure Cloud Innovation
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Cloud Platform Administrator at Bristol or Rosyth, near Bristol, Avon or Rosyth, Fife.
The role
As a Cloud Platform Administrator, you’ll play a key role in supporting and enhancing our enterprise cloud platforms, helping drive our transformation from legacy on‑premise systems to a modern cloud‑first environment. Your work will directly support projects that contribute to national security and critical infrastructure, giving you the opportunity to make a meaningful impact while developing in-demand cloud skills.
You’ll join our Corporate Services function, working at the forefront of defence, aerospace and engineering technology. This is a dynamic environment where your expertise in Microsoft Azure, identity services and cloud automation will help shape scalable, secure and future‑ready platforms.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to.
1. Support, maintain, and develop cloud platforms with a focus on Microsoft Azure, Entra ID, Identity Services, and Exchange Online.
2. Administer and optimise cloud‑based identity, access and collaboration services.
3. Implement secure, automated solutions using Infrastructure as Code.
4. Troubleshoot technical issues, ensuring high availability and performance.
5. Collaborate with teams across the organisation as we transition to cloud‑first services.
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.
Essential experience of the Cloud Platform Administrator
6. Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure as Code, modern cloud administration and secure identity management.
7. Experience administering Azure and Entra ID.
8. Strong knowledge of Exchange Online.
9. Understanding of cloud networking, RBAC, conditional access and identity governance.
10. Proficiency in PowerShell.
Qualifications for the Cloud Platform Administrator
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Must be a British National.
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 Generous holiday allowance
11. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
12. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
13. Employee share scheme
14. Employee shopping savings portal
15. Payment of Professional Fees
16. 10‑days special paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists
17. Holiday Trading – buy or sell up to one working week of leave
18. ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid volunteering day each year
19. Flexible working options
20. A dynamic working environment
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.
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