Senior Security Specialist

Job Title:                     Senior Security Specialist

Location:                     Corsham, Wiltshire, or Bordon, Hampshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent 

Role ID:                       SF72747

Be at the forefront of protecting the UK’s space communications capability

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 Security Specialist at Corsham, near Chippenham, Wiltshire (or Bordon, near Farnham, Hampshire).

The role

a Senior Security Specialist, you’ll play a central role in strengthening the operational security of the UK’s satellite communication infrastructure. You’ll ensure physical and personnel security controls are robust, compliant, and aligned to national security requirements making a real impact on defence capability, public protection and future technology resilience.

This is an opportunity to shape a critical security framework, influence key stakeholders, lead assurance activity across multiple sites, and grow your expertise within a dynamic defence, engineering and aerospace environment. You’ll be joining a mission that matters and contributing to national safety while developing your own leadership capability.

Day-to-day, you’ll:

• Lead the day-to-day delivery of operational security across all satellite communication sites and activities.
• Ensure security controls are embedded, proportionate to risk and aligned to contractual requirements.
• Act as the delegated Contract Authority lead for the external physical security service provider.
• Monitor KPIs, SLAs and compliance metrics, ensuring timely remediation of performance shortfalls.
• Conduct site inspections, assurance audits and compliance checks to ensure alignment with GovS007, JSP 440, JSP 490 and contractual obligations.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days onsite and days working from home.

Essential experience of the Senior Security Specialist

• Significant experience operating in a security management role within a defence, government or other high-assurance environment.
• Strong experience in security risk management, including conducting formal risk assessments, and implementing risk treatment plans.
• Practical working knowledge of UK Government security policy frameworks, including GovS007 SPF and JSP 440.
• Experience supporting audits, compliance inspections and customer assurance reviews.
• Strong stakeholder engagement experience, with experience designing or delivering security enhancement programmes using structured methodologies.

Qualifications for the Senior Security Specialist

• Degree-level qualification (or equivalent professional experience) in Security Management, Risk Management, Cyber Security or a related discipline.
• Professional security accreditation (e.g. membership of a recognised security institute or chartered status where applicable)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role.  Must be Sole UK 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 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 via Aviva DigiCare+
• Employee share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of professional fees
• 10 days’ special paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists
• Holiday Trading (buy or sell up to one week of leave)
• ‘Be Kind Day’ — one paid volunteering day per year
• Flexible working options
• A dynamic working environment
• Career development through training, upskilling and internal mobility

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: 10/04/2026

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