Location: Harrogate, GB, HG3 2RE
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Job Title: Senior Network Engineer
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72629
Help Us Build the Future of Strategic Communications. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Network Engineer at Forest Moor, near Harrogate, North Yorkshire.
Responsibilities
* Generate detailed specifications, designs, and other technical deliverables, working closely with peers to support engineering change and ensure adherence to process.
* Support system design delivery, including requirements management, justification, and decomposition.
* Participate in validation, verification, testing and acceptance activities, including writing and running test events.
* Support the in the build and deployment of strategic communication systems.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3 days in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday) and 2 days working from home. Flexible on start and finish times.
Essential Experience
* Experience or transferable knowledge of IP Networks and IP Voice
* Firewall configuration and administration
* System development and/or engineering change experience
* Experience writing and executing test plans, test events, and acceptance activities
Qualifications
* HNC/HND or equivalent in Telecommunications or Electronic Engineering
* Incorporated / Chartered Engineer or working towards
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role. Sole UK.
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
* 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 – buy or sell up to one working week of annual leave
* Be Kind Day – one paid volunteering day each year
* Flexible working options to support work‑life balance
* A dynamic working environment that encourages innovation and collaboration
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
Equal Opportunity
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.
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