Senior Network Engineer

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.

As a Senior Network Engineer, you will have a fantastic and rare opportunity to play a transformative role in a dynamic delivery team, working on new and exciting projects as part of a rapidly expanding organisation. You will be responsible for providing engineering lifecycle oversight to our expanding engineering team for a major UK programme.

What you'll be doing:

• 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 build and deployment of strategic communication systems.

Essential experience:

• Experience or transferable knowledge of IP Networks and IP Voice.
• Network engineering experience.
• 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 nationality is required.

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.

What we offer:

Working at Babcock means being part of an organisation that invests in your growth, values your wellbeing, and empowers you to build a meaningful long-term career. You’ll benefit from:

• Competitive Salary + Benefits
• 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 – 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

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.

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 [email protected] 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.