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Job Title: Cyber Security Lead
Location: Warrington, Bristol or Leicester
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF66104
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Cyber Security Lead at our various sites.
Job Title: Cyber Security Lead
Location: Warrington, Bristol or Leicester
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF66104
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Cyber Security Lead at our various sites.
The role
As a Cyber Security Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. We are looking for a Cyber Security expert with proven working experience within a complex organisation responsible for critical defence programmes. Closely working with government/MOD client, programme partners, and design collaborators, you will ensure the highest standards of cybersecurity across all stages of development.
Day-to-day, You’ll Have The Following Responsibilities
* Oversee and provide expert support on all aspects of cyber security across the defence programme. Ensuring leadership on security protocols, practices, and compliance requirements.
* Serve as the primary cybersecurity point of contact for the government/MOD client and all programme partners. Foster strong working relationships with design and programme teams to integrate security measures seamlessly with alignment of cybersecurity strategies with client and partner goals.
* Conduct risk assessments and vulnerability analyses across all digital systems. Providing mitigation strategies to address security risks, monitoring threats and vulnerabilities.
* Oversee the secure architecture, design, and implementation of all programme systems, monitoring cybersecurity technologies and solutions to maintain cutting-edge protection.
This role is full time and is a hybrid role with 2 days per week in the office at either Warrington, Bristol or Leicester and 3 days working from home.
Essential Experience Of The Security Lead
* Relevant experience of the Maritime Defence and MOD IT Domain, including knowledge of Government/MOD IA policy and process including JSP440, JSP453, JSP628, DIANs and NCSC IA guidance.
* Able to demonstrate the application of contextualised risk management in the application of technical/procedural/physical security controls within the risk/cost/benefit space.
* Security Documentation management to include - but not limited to - review and update of related IA documents including RMADS, Security Cases, SyOPs, Business Impact Assessments, Data Protection Impact Assessments, Risk Registers, DART/Oculus entries, Risk Balance Cases, Information Asset Owner forms, Supplier Assurance Questionnaires.
* Experienced in relevant Security Policy and Cyber Security Frameworks including the GovS 007, MOD Secure by Design (SbD), ISO27001 - Information Security Management Systems, NIST, NCSC IA Guidance
Qualifications For The Cyber Security Lead
* Educated to degree level or holds a relevant professional qualification or equivalent experience.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What We Offer
* Generous holiday allowance
* Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
* Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
* Employee share scheme
* Employee shopping savings portal
* Payment of Professional Fees
* Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
* 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.
* ‘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
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 31/08/2025
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
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