Cyber Security Lead

Job Title:             Cyber Security Lead

Location:             Bristol + Leicester + Warrington + Hybrid Working Arrangements

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 Bristol, Leicester or Warrington sites.

The role

As a Cyber Security Lead, you’ll lead cyber security across a complex defence infrastructure programme, ensuring the highest standards of information security, risk management and compliance are embedded from design through to delivery.

Day-to-day, you’ll influence decisions at every stage, protecting critical systems and enabling secure, resilient operations. This is an opportunity to play a key role in national security while developing your expertise in a highly collaborative and forward-thinking environment.

• Providing expert oversight across all cyber security activities, ensuring compliance with security standards and best practice
• Acting as the primary cyber security contact for Ministry of Defence clients and programme partners, aligning security strategies with programme objectives
• Conducting risk assessments and vulnerability analyses, identifying threats and implementing effective mitigation strategies
• Overseeing the secure design and architecture of programme systems throughout the lifecycle
• Collaborating with internal teams and external stakeholders to integrate secure solutions across complex engineering programmes

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Cyber 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
• Proven ability to engage stakeholders and provide clear, authoritative cyber security advice

Qualifications for the Cyber Security Lead

• Degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent professional experience - Essential

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 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

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.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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: 01/06/2026

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